Category Archives: Movie Reviews

Finding Neighbors follows a once lauded graphic novel creator resigned to writer’s block.

The Congress is a complete mess… but a bold and inventive one that you can’t help but admire.

An affectionate documentary about the writer of Apocalypse Now, and director of such macho movies as Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn.

Takahata’s miserable masterpiece is one of great beauty, a melancholy piece which celebrates life and finds joy in the trivial.

Alongside Spirited Away, this adaptation of Eiko Kadono’s novel is perhaps Miyazaki’s most accessible take on “the gulf that exists between independence and reliance” in girls entering their teens. It’s a quaint film, but one which is no less touching for all its cosiness.

No, not Doctor Who, Dr Who. Amicus Productions’ two movies feature a time traveller who is no Time Lord, but a seemingly senile scientist whose surname happens to be Who.