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Japan Is Winning Cinema Right Now

June 16, 2024 by Tom Jolliffe

Several great Japanese movies have come out in the past year, adding to a recent golden period, so is Japan making the best of the best right now? Cinema around the world is all about cycles. You’ll see peaks and troughs where a nation is producing stellar work followed by a period of creative lull […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Godzilla, Godzilla Minus One, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Monster, Perfect Days, Sakura Ando, Shoplifters, Wim Wenders

Great Films From the Past Four Years That You Might Have Missed

August 26, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at 15 recent films which you might have missed…  The last few years seems to have bought an upturn in interesting and engaging cinema. Even as conventional blockbuster fare, which can feel interchangeable, rules the roost, indie and world cinema is beginning to find a place and more acknowledgement. At the […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A White White Day, Alone, Boss Level, Burning, Calibre, Calm with Horses, Censor, Knocking, Lamb, pig, Possessor, Riders of Justice, Shoplifters, The Platfom, The Trip

Grief, depression, guilt and mortality in Maborosi

March 12, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks back at Hirokazu Kore-eda’s debut narrative feature Maborosi from 1995 – a masterclass in the art of subtle, meditative storytelling… Hirokazu Koreeda struck a huge chord worldwide in recent years with the acclaimed Shoplifters. A melancholic, gritty and charming depiction of family and class. It travelled well outside of his native Japan […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Hirokazu Koreeda, Maborosi, Makiko Esumi, Shoplifters, Takashi Naito

The Movies You Might Have Missed In 2018

November 27, 2018 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno on the movies you might have missed in 2018… In a year filled with incredible films, there’s been plenty of room to shine. Sony’s Venom found a place at the box office in a year with films like Aquaman, Avengers: Infinity War and Black Panther. Hereditary shocked audiences and scared up some considerable money […]

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Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Movies Tagged With: Annihilation, climax, Lizzie, Minding the Gap, Shoplifters, Tully, Unsane

Movie Review – Shoplifters (2018)

November 17, 2018 by Robert Kojder

Shoplifters, 2018. Written and Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. Starring Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Mayu Matsuoka, Kirin Kiki, Jyo Kairi, Miyu Sasaki, Sosuke Ikematsu, Chizuru Ikewaki, Akira Emoto, Kengo Kora, Yôko Moriguchi, Yuki Yamada, Moemi Katayama, and Naoto Ogata. SYNOPSIS: A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find on the street. Rendering a […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Robert Kojder Tagged With: Akira Emoto, Chizuru Ikewaki, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Jyo Kairi, Kengo Kora, Kirin Kiki, Lily Franky, Mayu Matsuoka, Miyu Sasaki, Moemi Katayama, Naoto Ogata, Sakura Ando, Shoplifters, Sosuke Ikematsu, Yôko Moriguchi, Yuki Yamada

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