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I don't think Crunchyroll really care about preserving the history of Manga Entertainment. Upper management would not give a rat's arse about it. They just want to rebrand everything purge all traces of it. Whether or not they are keeping the archive of their material or not, who knows? It's...

Vampire Gokemidoro aka Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968) I had heard about this film as far back as the late 1990's, but never got around to watching it. I assumed it was a bog standard Japanese horror film of the era and went into it pretty much cold. Well, what an absolutely wild piece of...

I thought I was the only Australian here... Welcome.

That time of year again; Ohh, a couple of them are from this century. I'm surprised. Absolutely zero surprises there. So not a lot has changed in my musical tastes in 30 years really... Except for a certain Japanese technopop trio I discovered by accident a decade ago.

The Car (1977) I think I first saw this on TV as child sometime in the early 1980's. The story of an evil black car stalking and killing the citizens of a small desert town really stuck in my mind. So much so I searched out the film in the late 1990's and eventually got a copy on DVD a few years...

I can't stop listening to Dry Cleaning. I think it's juxtaposition of the deadpan, almost total disengaged delivery of lead singer Florence Shaw's surreal spoken word lyrics with the music. It should not work but I've really come to love everything they do. Still reacquiring quite a few...

Kia Asamiya was tweeting about the 30th anniversary of the second film the other day

Let's never go back to dinosaur island

J. R. R. Tolkien talks to his publisher about his new book;

Bought quite a few albums in recent weeks which I am going through slowly. Some a new ones some are rebuys of stuff I sold off to someone back in the late 1990's. The missing piece in my Grimes collection was Halfaxa. Since Ms Boucher decided to remove certain tracks from the streaming versions...

I bought a few cels from Anime Shop Apple Symphony in Nakano Broadway back in 2012 and 2013; Priss from "Revenge Road" episode of Bubblegum Crisis Mima from Prefect Blue Miki from Marmalade Boy. This one is actually two cels, with a separate cel for the eyebrows, eyes and mouth from memory...

Ta. I think as I have got older my tastes in music have become far more eclectic. Plus I am constantly rediscovering stuff I missed the first time in my youth or my 20's or later. So much stuff was released and not great deal got any radio play where I lived. Currently binging on 1980's Chicago...

Bought a couple of CDs recently, first was the Life Was Better EP by Magic Dirt who reissued it themselves. I think it'd be great if a lot more stuff on the long defunct Au Go Go label could see re-release. Also finally got Sudan Archives' Athena album from a couple years back. Great album...

I haven't read every single post here, but thought I might comment. I'm heading towards my fifth decade on this planet and I have seen the same issues crop their heads up over and over again; explicit lyrics in records, video nasties, pornography (again, and again, sigh, and yet again...). Due...

I think Verhoeven really amped that aspect up. It as you say it was like a hyperreal version of what fascists would consider a utopia. Verhoeven's early years were in the Hauge near the German headquarters in the Netherlands during World War II and he saw a lot of death and destruction as a very...

If you can play region A discs and only want an English subtitled copy, it did get a Hong Kong release which is barebones but good. I'm sort of surprised this film wasn't picked up for English distribution.

A few more films I've seen over the last month or so; Xtro (1982) Always saw the video cover of this at the video store when I was much younger and it just creped the hell out of me. The Australian VHS cover was really horrifying and made the film out to be nothing but a gore fest I think. I'd...

This is the Beez version I'm assuming? The only Beez stuff I imported was the Gundam 0083 movie, Diebuster and a few of the latter Gundam Seed Destiny DVDs, as Bandai Entertainment used an incredibly incompetent replicator and there were so many bad discs out there. I think I got to the third...

Tokuma Shoten thought that Totoro as a stand alone film would be too much of a financial risk, so they decided to pair it up with Takahata's adaptation of "Grave of the Fireflies" which was based on a well known short story and producers at Tokuma Shoten believed that cinema goers would come to...

I finally saw two movies considered to be the worst ever made, but are of the “so bad they’re good” variety. In that genre of films they usually boil down to two types; the one made by people who don’t give a crap and they’re there just to create a film fill a schedule, and those who are...