The Talking Robot is a tin plate robot toy which is relatively simple compared to the all-plastic robot I'm in the middle of restoring at the moment...
Writing: Arguably one of the few true Indian / Western crossover films, “Shalimar”, which starred Rex Harrison , John Saxon &...
Writing: Plastic Astronauts from Planet Cereal… My mother insists that this is a false memory but I have a distinct recollection of her returning from her night-shift job in aircraft catering at Heathrow Airport and dumping a rather battered cereal box – the cereal brand has been long forgotten –...
The final title sequence involved a lot of analogue post-work in the form of a sheet of reeded glass that emulated TV raster or low-resolution 8 Bit computer graphics
As the young man came and went I would gently remind him of his promise to build me a jet-pack...
It's hard to pinpoint exactly when I had the first stirrings of interest in Japan and Japanese culture.
"It also reminded me of my less than auspicious entry into the world of animation in the dim and distant early 80's in London."
Film Review: “Heavy Metal” – the 1981 animated feature film based on the comic / prototype graphic novel “Heavy Metal”,...
Fan Fiction: *Transcribed, unedited, from an un-dated (late 80’s ?), one-page A4 typed script… It may serve to mention, from the point of view of context, that I’m a fan of aspects of pop-culture though would never count myself as a Godzilla Super-Fan – the intent, ambition, scope and visual...
Film Review: Extrait du Cahier Du Cinéma 1968 : J’ai eu le grand plaisir de voir le dernier chef-d’œuvre cinématographique...
Film Review: “Dai Nipponjin” or “Big Man Japan” (2017), directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto is currently available in it’s entirety on YouTube...
The week of April the 14th 2019 saw the launch of the new CG animated adaptation of Tove Jansson’s creation “Moominvalley” – on Sky One in the U.K.