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Subway (1985) Following a burglary at a rich man’s house party, impulsive thief Fred (Christopher Lambert) finds refuge with a group of squatters hiding in the back rooms and tunnels of the Paris Metro, whilst trying to woo his mark’s unhappy young wife (Isabelle Adjani). Exactly the sort of...

Episode 3 - Sometimes even electronic brain Pancake Crystal Elderly. Sproing. As everyone else has commented, there’s not an awful lot of incident in this one, again it just seems focused on describing the world, but there’s still that undercurrent of something going on just out of sight...

I'll look forward to it! It doesn't seem to be as much discussed as the likes of Cagliostro or Mamo, but I have a lot of time for Dead or Alive, it's just a very solid action film. It's got quite an unusual look to it as well; it feels like the character art is maybe trying to reference the...

Episode 2 - Mother, should I build The Wall? Again, it feels like we're largely still establishing the world, but from memory, I think it would be fair to say this is as much the story of the world we're seeing as it is of any one particular character within it. There's certainly a lot to...

Episode 1 - Grey's Anatomy While I have seen the series before, I remember being deeply puzzled by it, so I'm curious to see what kind of meaning might occur to me this time around. It definitely feels like one that's intended for the viewer to draw their own conclusions on what it's about and...

No stress - with any luck we'll do another show soon.

The best-known narrative work from graphic artist Yoshitoshi ABe, Haibane Renmei is the curious fantasy tale of a young girl born into a community of angels living in an isolated walled-city. Marked by its introspective and thoughtful atmosphere, I always tend to think of it as a kind of follow...

Dragonball ep7-9 It wouldn’t be my first choice of metaphor, just sayin’ Some of the gags continue to be a bit cringey (can Goku please stop patting people’s crotches to determine their genitalia?), but honestly, I kind of prefer this over Z so far. The goofy adventure-schtick of original...

Gah, you’re right enough - Patlabor was on HIDIVE (albeit region locked) and also… ITVX, for some reason, but appears to be gone from both. I’ll hold off putting up a thread for another day in case this is a problem for anyone and they’d like to change their vote. We’ll likely only have a few...

Ah, I thought Haibane Renmei was on CR, but it seems to have disappeared - is that going to be a problem for anyone?

Looks like we've got a clear leader with Haibane Renmei, so I'll leave it until this evening just in case, but if there are no more votes I'll get the thread set up tonight. I didn't actually cast a vote myself, but if I did, it would make a tie, so I'll hold off for now.

If it helps for anyone, Fujiko Mine is on HIDIVE, although it’s not terribly obvious - it’s under Lupin III: Part 1 as season 7, because of course it is…

Apologies for the delay, but I've got the poll up. I've left out Dan Da Dan and Fate / Strange Fake for now, not out of lack of interest or attempted gatekeeping, but I think most folk interested in Dan Da Dan have probably been watching it as it's been going along, and I couldn't see definite...

I was tempted to make a joke about the Jack Bauer Power Hour, but when last did anyone even mention 24? I digress. If we get a conclusive result fast enough, we could potentially look at starting on Friday night (20th), although if folk want time to consider or if it ends in a draw, we can...

Hmm. I wouldn’t be adverse to starting on Friday, but I’ve still to get a poll up to see what people want to go for. If we get a conclusive result by the end of tomorrow, we could aim for a Friday start, otherwise maybe wait another day or so and see what develops. I like the idea of that -...

Since there was some interest in these coming back (and we have a whole new section for it now), would anyone care to suggest something to potentially run over the holidays? In past times, I think we may have over-thought it at this stage, so I’d encourage folk to just throw out whatever’s on...

A shiny penny if you can name me more than three British gangster films from the 80s. All I can think of is Mona Lisa, The Long Good Friday and The Hit (1984) A curious, blackly comic thriller that sees John Hurt and Tim Roth as a pair of killers tasked with driving...

Dragonball ep3-6 As it goes on, I can increasingly see why this wasn’t on kids’ TV here - maybe they just did a good job of covering it up in the version of Z we got on TV, but the original seems weirdly obsessed with smutty gags by comparison. It’s still kind of innocent in its way, it feels...

I’m still not entirely sure if I saw the director’s cut of MD Geist or the original- I’m guessing because there didn’t seem to be anything too obviously wrong with the animation that it must have been the director’s version?

At least the kids won’t grow up thinking people have pictures of Kosaku Maeda on their chest…