Tom Jolliffe selects his five essential films of Hayao Miyazaki… Hayao Miyazaki is one of the greatest animators in the world. The Japanese born artist has forged a successful 50 year career, starting from jobbing artist, to co-founding Studio Ghibli. Often referred to as the Walt Disney of Japan (which he hates) his films enrapture […]

It has been announced that Oscar-winning Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki will retire from filmmaking following his next film The Wind Rises, with Studio Ghibli president Koju Hoshino revealing the news at the Venice Film Festival where The Wind Rises is screening in competition. The co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki’s illustrious career saw him winning […]

When we return to Middle-earth later this year for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, we’ll be seeing a few new additions to the cast of Peter Jackson’s three-part prequel to The Lord of the Rings – not least the Elves of Mirkwood, including the returning LotR star Orlando Bloom as Legolas and Evangeline Lilly […]

Jordan Schwarzenberger on The Wizard of Oz and the American Dream… “Dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.” On a warm spring day at school, myself and my English group were ready to begin Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, a renowned classic both tragic and truly honest in its inference of […]

Anthony Stokes assesses the career of Judd Apatow…. Comedy seems to be like a mechanical bull, with many people holding on for dear life and not quite realizing they’ve fallen off (I’m looking at you Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and especially Eddie Murphy). Few people have had more success producing, writing, and directing comedies than Judd […]

A couple of months back it was rumoured that Christopher Nolan was set to produce a potential Justice League / World’s Finest movie, which would have seen Christian Bale donning the cape and cowl once more to team up with Henry Cavill, star of the upcoming Superman reboot Man of Steel. While the initial report turned out to […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews The Superior Spider-Man #10…. “It Begins Here!! A perfect jumping on point as The Green Goblin returns and Spider-Man is nowhere to be found!“ My love for Marvel’s Superior Spider-Man has been well articulated.  It is by far the most interesting and fascinating of the Marvel NOW! titles.  The only issue I […]

Matt Smith reviews episode 23 of Elementary… It’s the penultimate episode of Elementary and things are getting serious, because it’s the penultimate episode and that’s what happens in penultimate episodes. That’s what’s always said, right? In the ads and promotions, it always says ‘penultimate episode’ followed by the main character looking sombre or contemplative? That’s […]

Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Vol. 3 #9… “The TARDIS has recently been on the fritz, but now it has gone completely out of control. And the Doctor is nowhere to be found! Meanwhile, white holes have been forming throughout time and space, sucking in everything around them. What does the Hypothetical Gentleman have to do […]

John Lucking reviews the eighth episode of Hannibal…. This week’s episode of Hannibal is brought to you by the sense of sound, and Will’s mental degradation is first under the microscope as we see him relaxing at home (by fixing things of course) before hearing the sound of a wounded animal from outside. The sound […]