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Sky Blue / Wonderful Days

November 20, 2005

…finally makes it to R2 dvd, but is it mighty? No, not really. But it’s certainly purty in places. Set in a dystopic future (oh stop yawning, do) where the sky has been obscured by dirty clouds and acid rain for a hundred years, Sky Blue is an animated film from Korea in a very [...]

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The Corpse Bride

November 19, 2005

Probably the best looking stop motion film ever made. Unfortunately, it’s also probably never been this bland. From Tim Burton? Shurely shome mishtake. What could have been a grand film to rival Nightmare Before Christmas, feels by turns rather flat or unbelievably loud and irritating. The latter, to be fair not entirely Burton’s fault, some [...]

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Buttons, Bangles and Bows

June 9, 2005

Whilst looking through the site with a colleague from my place of work, I went onto BOTW and started going through some of the reviews. Now I didn’t tell my co-worker that I was the one who wrote the reviews but his remark was succinct: “What are they doing, reviewing or writing the books?” My [...]

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Appleseed

May 28, 2005

Appleseed is set in 2131, on an Earth scarred and barren in the aftermath of a non-nuclear war. Communication is sparse and pockets of soldiers still fight on, unaware that the war has ended. Deunan Knute is one such soldier until located and captured by a team led by her former, supposedly deceased, lover and [...]

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Robots

April 10, 2005

Frank Capra meets The Wizard of Oz in CG Land Robots is a fairly uncomplicated film… dreamer goes to big city, finds all is not as he thought it would be, overcomes obstacles and makes new friends, saves the day. All fairly predictable fair for the children, and certainly not riddled with knowingness or nose [...]

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Bambi and the Birth of Manga

February 17, 2005

Now you’re probably thinking WTF ? But the connection is there, as Osamu Tezuka, commonly known as ‘The Godfather of Manga’, and revered in Japan as being responsible for the style of contemporary Japanese comic books and anime, had freely admitted. Tezuka was influenced by the films of Disney in his youth and had reportedly [...]

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Alias Sketchbook Pro

December 14, 2004

Yeh, I already have a post titled that, I know. But this time I’ve had a few tinkers with a trial version and have something useful (depending on how useful my opinion ever is) to say. I was interested in Sketchbook Pro as a viable alternative to Painter, which may have been somewhat over optimistic [...]

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When Worlds Collide

October 19, 2004

Comics can be a lot of things. As part of the entertainment and mass media industry, comic’s can- and are- be used for both enjoyment and education. But in their quest to be seen as a viable and important literary genre, a lot of writers, artists and critics forget what it was that brought them [...]

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