Anime-filled line-up at the Cambridge Film Festival

Sci-Fi London has announced it’s annual anime all-nighter, and this year the line-up is especially enticing. Beginning on Sat 5th May at 11.45pm and running through to 8.30am the following morning, the schedule includes GHOST IN THE SHELL: Solid State Society, PAPRIKA, LE CHEVALIER D’EON, HIGHLANDER: Search for Vengence and FULL METAL ALCHEMIST: Conqueror of … Continued

The Anime All-Nighter event has become a regular and very popular fixture in the annual Sci-Fi London event. As with previous years, it was a back-to-back showing with only breaks to answer the call of nature and load up on caffeine before the next one. Things kicked off at midnight and wrapped up at around … Continued

Tales From Earthsea, Arrietty, Paprika and Redline, will be screened at Cardiff’s Chapter Arts Centre on the 25th and 26th of November as part of the Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival. The annual Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival showcases a number of different anime movies over two days as well as other cultural events. Friday the 25th … Continued

Ghost in the Shell has risen to become a staple of both the science-fiction genre, and of anime in general, enjoying a meteoric rise from cult anonymity to widespread popularity after the onset of its modern revival. This revival took all of ten years after the first film by Mamoru Oshii (based on the original manga … Continued

New Anime Releases for Monday:   Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Solid State Society   (Blu-Ray and DVD Double Play) (Manga Entertainment)   (RRP: £24.99)   Fairy Tail: Part 2 (Manga Entertainment)   (RRP: £29.99)