Director: Makoto Shinkai Writer: Makoto Shinkai Cast: Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Shun Oguri Distributor: Anime Ltd Director Makoto Shinkai certainly seems to have found his niche in filmmaking – tending to base his more recent works around teen-led stories with a fantastical edge. His greatest success to date was 2016’s highly acclaimed Your Name, breaking
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Author: Aisha Saeed Publisher: Penguin Random House Price: £12.99 If you like this, try… Wonder Woman Tempest Tossed Aimed more at teens than tots, Tempest Tossed is another early years adventure for Wonder Woman that never compromises its relevance. Aimed at younger readers (around the ages of eight-twelve), Penguin Random House has released the first
Certificate: PG Cast: Paul-Mikél Williams, Ryan Potter, Jenny Ortega Running Time: 8 episodes Summer camp can be an exciting time in many a young person’s life – but imagine if you could go to summer camp on an island filled with bio-engineered dinosaurs? Great, right? No kids! Of course not! Have you not watched Jurassic
Author: M R Carey Publisher: Orbit books Price: £8.99 Picking up immediately after The Book Of Koli, its sequel The Trials Of Koli sees our not-so-merry gang heading on a long journey from Calder Valley to London – where the mysterious Sword Of Albion signal is transmitting from. The group consists of Koli who has
Released: Out now Director: Dean Parisot Writer: Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon Cast: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine Running Time: 91 minutes Woah. It’s been 31 years since we were first introduced to Bill S. Preston Esquire (Alex Winter) and Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan (Keanu Reeves) and our duo has been through many excellent
Director: Brea Grant Cast: Angela Bettis, Chloe Farnworth, David Arquette, Mick Foley Running Time: 86 mins Set in a Nineties Arkansas hospital, 12 Hour Shift focuses on Mandy, a foul-mouthed, drug-abusing nurse. In need of a little extra cash (as most nurses unfortunately are), Mandy also has a side job – prepping patients to have
Author: Rian Hughes Publisher: Picador Price: £20 As much as the world has embraced the Kindle (other e-readers are available) there’s something about a real book. A book is a collection of ideas given physical form; the texture of the pages, the crack of the spine as you reach the halfway point, even the font
Author: Mats Strandberg Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Released: Out now Price: £16.99 The Home tells the story of Joel, who has returned from big city life to his old home town to help his mother Monika (who is suffering from the onset of Dementia) move into a nursing home. As Monika starts to settle in,
Director: Tom Harberd Writer: Tom Harberd Cast: Samuel Anderson, Dominique Tipper, Martin McCann Running Time: 25 mins Deeply atmospheric and full of tension, Tom Harberd’s directional debut, Estate, mixes the political and the genre with a tale about animal rights and paganism. Rick (Samuel Anderson – Doctor Who) is fed up with his home estate
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Released: Out now Writer: M R Carey Price: £8.99 Long after climate breakdown has ravaged the world and humanity has retreated into small communities, a teenager named Koli dreams of becoming a wielder of the old technology and defender of his village. When he steals an old Sony music player,
Certificate: 18 Director: Johannes Nyholm Cast: Leif Edlund, Ylva Gallon, Peter Belli, Katarina Jakobson, Morad Baloo Khatchadorian, Brandy Litmanen Distributor: Picturehouse Entertainment On a day out in Denmark just before her eighth birthday, young Maja (Katarina Jakobson) tells her parents, Elin (Ylva Gallon) and Tobias (Leif Edlund), that she wishes the day could last forever. The day will end
Director: Niki Caro Cast: Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Li Gong Distributor: Disney+ Running Time: 115 mins Do you remember when Disney had that spate of releasing sequels to classic Disney films in a deluge of straight-to-VHS duds that never seemed to end? Well, apart from a couple of rare instances, that’s what Disney’s live action
Director: Chino Moya Writer: Chino Moya Cast: Johann Myers, Géza Röhrig, Michael Gould Set in an undisclosed European dystopian future full of burnt-out apartment blocks and corpses littering the streets, Undergods opens on two men in a garbage truck, picking up said corpses while lamenting on life. This sets the grim, sometimes funny, tone of
Director: Ivo van Aart Writer: Daan Windhorst Cast: Katja Herbers, Bram van der Kelen, Claire Porro, Genio de Groot, Harry van Rijthoven, Medina Schuurman, Rein Hofman Running Time: 83 minutes Set against the backdrop of a quintessential Dutch urban lifestyle (all bicycles and electric cars) director Ivo van Aart’s The Columnist is about a woman
Director: Bjorn Stewart, Kodie Bedford, Liam Phillips, Perun Bonser, Rob Braslin Cast: Nelson Baker, Katherine Beckett, Shakira Clanton Running Time: 75 mins Assembled by a group of talented Australian indigenous filmmakers is horror anthology Dark Place, serving up five well-crafted tales for us to enjoy. First up we are introduced to ‘scout’, who’s being held
Director: John Pogue Writer: Dirk Blackman Cast: Tania Raymonde, Nathaniel Buzolic, Emerson Brooks Running Time: 99 mins For those out there familiar with the original 1999 Deep Blue Sea film starring Samuel L. Jackson and LL Cool J (ah the Nineties) you may remember it for its beautifully straightforward plot (genetically engineered sharks go on
Author: Derek Künsken Publisher: Rebellion Price: £7.99. (eBook), £18.99 (Hardback – out in April 2021) The planet Venus is home to a fascinating but intensely hostile atmosphere where immense heat tries to cook you, tremendous pressure tries to crush you and the perpetual acid rain will burn you. Deep in the clouds of Venus we
Director: André Øvredal Writer: Geoff Bussetil, Norman Lesperance, André Øvredal Cast: Nat Wolff, Priyanka Bose, Iben Akerlie Running Time: 104 mins After going into hiding for three years following a mysterious farm fire that killed all its residents, American backpacker Eric (Nat Wolff) emerges in a small Norwegian town. Upon a tragic confrontation with one
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