This week on Anime Monday, brings another Isao Takahata film. Almost instantly, I think most will recognize that today’s film is very different from the rest of the films we have talked about so far on Anime Monday, due to it never really receiving a proper release in the U.S.. Takahata’s Gauche the Cellist is a […]
Comedy is seen as an everlasting staple of the British film industry and British culture in general. There are many great comedies from the nation and one of the most highly regarded movies is Bruce Robinson’s semi-biographical film, Withnail and I. Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and the unnamed “I” (Paul McGann) are two unemployed actors living […]
Jump to Last Week’s Episode Along with our review of the RoboCop remake and an early look at vampire drama Only Lovers Left Alive, this week on The Plot Hole we chat some casting news in both the Terminator and Avengers worlds as well as look back at the best works of the late Phillip […]
Wonder Woman. Yes. That’s the big one, we all know it. Lets get that out of the way. It will happen, I’m just surprised it has taken this long. I wrote a whole article about it that you can peruse at your leisure. Speaking of inevitability, DC’s going to be looking to develop their own […]
Welcome to the month of February fellow readers. As a longtime fan of all things Studio Ghibli, I decided we would take a look at one of Isao Takahata’s works. Take out your kleenex, this week on Anime Monday we’ll be discussing Grave of the Fireflies. Set in Japan during World War II, Grave of […]
Jump to last week’s episode With only a few more “minor” awards to go before the big Oscar ceremony in March, this week on The Plot Hole we chat the latest victors at the Director’s Guild Awards and the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards and what that means heading into the big night. We’ll also weigh […]
Richard Curtis is known as one of the greats of British comedy and rom-coms, creating characters like Blackadder and Mr Bean and writing and directing Love Actually. Curtis has announced he is planning retire from directing and he takes a more serious turn with his ‘last’ movie, About Time. Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) is a […]
The Internet quickly broke in half yesterday, when Warner Bros. had issued a press release stating that Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland, The Social Network) was announced as the latest member of the cast of Superman VS Batman, as Superman’s arch nemesis, Lex Luthor. They also had announced that Jeremy Irons (Dead Ringers, Die Hard With A Vengeance) would […]
1965’s The War Game is a little known, but very important 50 minute film, with it being the only fictional film to ever win an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Upon its original broadcast in the UK, The War Game became highly controversial and was not seen again, until the 40th Anniversary of the bombing of […]
Apologies for this rather late entry of Anime Monday. This week’s film took some wrangling to find a decent copy, however, I think we’ll all agree it was worth the wait. Moreover, the franchise has been quite the topic of discussion this weekend. As such, it only seemed right to talk about none other than […]
