A stunning animated fantasy about a cat’s journey through a strange, phantasmagorical world in the wake of apocalyptic floods, with an unlikely collection of shipmates, there's something very special indeed about Flow. On the face of it, it's a simple story, with a style of animation that feels a little rough and ready at times, and its lack of dialogue and non-anthropomorphised animal characters (beautifully observed, I should stress) set it apart from many other family friendly animated features. But…
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The Bad Sleep Well 1960
Akira Kurosawa riffs loosely on Hamlet in the world of private-public corporate corruption in this a gripping and stylish drama, with Toshiro Mifune as the cool-headed interloper seeking vengeance against those who caused the death of his father. Perhaps it never quite tops its gripping wedding scene and struggles to reach a satisfactory payoff - though that in itself is surely part of its critique of corporate corruption, the cycle continues - but it's thoroughly absorbing stuff, especially in its portrayal of how Japanese corporate culture is ruthlessly exploited by those at the top to enrich themselves and cover their own tracks.
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Godzilla Minus One 2023
Whilst Godzilla as a character has been thriving on the big screen in recent years, largely due to Legendary’s ‘Monsterverse’ outings, they’ve had a patchier few years in his native Japan under the auspices of Toho. Godzilla Minus One seems to break that trend by delivering what feels to me like one of the greatest - possibly the greatest - Godzilla movie of all.
Key to that is taking Godzilla back to its origins in postwar Japan, though it dials…
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Doctor Who Am I 2022
Matthew Jacobs, self-deprecatingly captioned as a 'mid-level screenwriter', write the script for the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie starring Paul McGann, which met with a mixed reception. In this feature-length documentary, he rejoins the world of Who, attending conventions in the US and reflecting on his experiences connected to the show (including visiting his father, Anthony Jacobs, recording William Hartnell adventure The Gunfighters in 1966, what seems to be a rare happy childhood memory).
That's the theory, anyway. There's a…
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