When Hideo Nakata’s Ring came out in 1998, followed by Ring 2 in 1999 – they looked like groundbreaking Japanese horror movies. The Japanese film…
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A couple of years ago I wrote a post on my quest to find the ideal notebook. I’d grown tired of jumping from one PDA…
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I came back from Japan with a five year old and a three year old with heads full of Sailor Moon, Anpanman and Miyazaki Hayao,…
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I work in education, advising ministries throughout the world on how to best use technology in the classroom. For most the process is one of…
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I downloaded The Wolverine from iTunes a couple of weeks ago. All good fun, even if it did go through the motions a bit, and…
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In last week’s post Jane Dougherty raised the interesting question as to whether modern Young Adult fantasy sanitises the world for its readers, serving them…
2 CommentsFollowing on from Jim Barker’s post about the need to take comics seriously I thought I’d write about an artist who is recognised as one…
1 CommentEmily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is a really odd book. On the surface it’s the first bodice-ripper – a passionate tale of doomed love set among…
6 CommentsThe first batch of Japanese anime to appear in video shops in the UK were resolutely aimed at the disturbed 13 year old boy market.…
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