Madman Entertainment has announced that at some point this year the live action take on the mega-popular franchise, Attack on Titan, will be getting a theatrical release in Australia. While we’ve seen plenty of examples of popular manga that just haven’t translated well to the big screen, there have been…
Read MoreTokyo Tribe blows my mind. Coming to us from Sion Sono (the same guy that helmed the also-brilliant Why Don’t You Play In Hell?), Tokyo Tribe is a violently clever homage and self-referential parody of grindhouse, exploitation, and yakuza films. From end to end it is an extreme pastiche of…
Read MoreVideo game adaptations of films don’t have the greatest reputation, and that’s for a good reason – they’re often limited in budget and struggle to capture what made the film so popular for audiences. Film adaptations of manga or anime is much the same. Trying to recreate what tend to…
Read MoreDocumentary filmmakers seem to have a fascination with independent game developers. A few years ago we had Indie Game: The Movie, and now we’ve got GameLoading: Rise of the Indies. It actually makes sense that we would have such a fascination with indie game developers. After all, they typically fit…
Read MoreTakashi Miike is one of the most prolific and transgressive of Japan’s modern cinema directors. Best known for 13 Assassins, Dead or Alive (no, it has nothing to do with the games), and Ichi the Killer, Miike likes indulging in a spot of the old ultraviolence and in-out (I do…
Read MoreThe Rurouni Kenshin series of films is what 47 Ronin should have been. Stripped of the formula that marks a Hollywood period film, and replaced with an actual understanding of the Japanese culture and philosophy (as you would hope, given that it is a film native to Japan), Rurouni Kenshin…
Read MoreNetflix has recently released in Australia – finally – after a long wait. You’ll want to have a fast connection to the Internet with which to enjoy it in full, but if you’re an iiNet customer you’re in for a good time, because it’s unmetered, and that means you can…
Read MoreAttack on Titan has become a major media franchise, with both the manga and anime lighting up sales charts worldwide. So the natural next step was a live-action film, and this one is shaping up well indeed, based on the early trailer, which you can see below. Of course, manga-to-film…
Read MoreI thought we could do something a little different this week to our usual game-based countdowns, and have a look at some games that would be perfect as films. Of course, there haven’t been that many good video game movie adaptations out there. There’s a couple of decent ones, for…
Read MoreIf there is one thing common to Quentin Tarantino’s films, it’s that they’re made with a genuine and abiding love for film. That being the case, Shion Sono’s Why Don’t You Play In Hell is the kind of film that Tarantino would have loved to make. In theory it’s meant…
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