Review: Le Mans ’66

The 24 hours of Le Mans: the oldest sports car endurance race ever, one of the most famous races in motor sports, and, to Ford Motor Company in the mid-1960s, the reason young Americans were buying Ferraris.

Manga Madness: Tokyo Zombie (2005)

Originally published in underground manga anthology Ax in 1999, Yusaku Hanamura’s one-volume Tokyo Zombie is undoubtedly, and unashamedly, a cult manga.

Manga Madness: Mushishi (2006)

If there was ever a live-action manga adaptation that actually looked promising, Mushishi is it.

Review: Blinded By The Light

The best music has always held the power to cross a multitude of boundaries, transcending time, space, and personal situation. In this way, the words of one man in New Jersey can radically alter the life of a Bedfordshire teenager many miles away.

Manga Madness: Death Note (2017)

Let’s just start with the obvious: Death Note is a mess.

Review: The Current War

AC or DC? That is the question that faced America in the late 1800s, as state-by-state the country hooked up to the new technology that was lighting up cities: electricity.

Hidden Gems: Millennium Actress

Ever since her swift rise to fame in the twilight years of World War Two, actress Chiyoko Fujiwara was the brightest star of the Japanese film industry, inspiring dedicated fans across the country. She was the ‘it girl’, the heroine, the princess. And then she was gone.

Review: Wild Rose

Ever heard of a country singer from Glasgow?

Review: If Beale Street Could Talk

Tish and Fonny are in love. She is 19 and pregnant; he is 22 and in prison. So starts If Beale Street Could Talk, an adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel of the same name.

Review: The Kindergarten Teacher

In a world that doesn’t value art, is it a crime to nurture genius?