Director – Hayao Miyazaki – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 124m ***** During WorldWar Two, a boy bereaved of his mother moves to the countryside with his businessman father where a heron lures him into another dimension to rescue his vanished stepmother – out in UK cinemas on Friday, December 26th Directors, eh? […]
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