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Great piece by Mark Kermode (he of BBC5 fame) from his new book The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex. I don’t want to spoil the whole article, it so I’ll just excerpt the beginning: Here are three absolute truths: The world is round. We are all going to die. No one enjoyed Pirates of [...]

I rather like Japan. Some of my best friends are Japanese. My wife is Japanese (probably should have written that one first). I’ve lived and worked in Japan for two and half years and deeply admire many aspects of the society. Today I saw the film 夕凪の町、桜の国 (Yūnagi City, Sakura Country). The film follows the [...]