Fantasia 2023: Shin Kamen Rider

With the help of Shotaro Ishinomori, writer and director Hideaki Anno is back with another iconic hero entry into the massively popular Shin Japan Heroes Universe with Shin Kamen Rider (2023). Created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kamen Rider which debuted in the early 70s and boasts nearly 100 episodes, this film comes only […]

“Some Thing Has Found Us”: Cloverfield – a Retrospective

Ahead of writing up this piece, I did a small social experiment with Cloverfield to gauge how audiences felt about it 15 years after, and nearly 400 comments within two hours later, the movie still draws a crowd, and opinions so strong I wasn’t ready for the wave. Takes range from it being the most […]

Shin Ultraman (2022)

By Gabby Foor It’s rare that a film begins with such passionate backstory from its creators providing their personal connection to a story – while explaining the possible cultural disconnect from viewers who may have missed the fifty five-year plus history of Shin Ultraman, which I had. This goes from a member whose father worked […]