Check out a first look at Disney’s ASL re-animated songs from 'Encanto,' 'Frozen 2,' and 'Moana 2,' coming to Disney+ next week. The studio reworks key musical sequences using performance-driven signing.
www.cartoonbrew.com/music-videos...

malcolm tucker level spin here

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

Interpreting Japanese Cinema: Monika Uchiyama The treasured interpreter of film Q&As and more reflects on speaking for others

Meiko Kaji's recent New York appearance flooded my timeline with clips and words of admiration. You were all equally complimentary of her interpreter.

For the Substack, I spoke with beloved Japanese-English interpreter Monika Uchiyama about the craft in speaking for others:

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Chie Hayakawa’s Cannes Selection Renoir, Opening This May Returning to Cannes Film Festival a few years after her acclaimed feature debut Plan 75, Chie Hayakawa debuted her Tokyo-set period drama Renoir in the competition last summer. Picked up by Film Movem...

We've exclusively debuted the U.S. trailer for Chie Hayakawa’s Cannes selection #Renoir, opening this May.

Yuiga Danzuka’s #BrandNewLandscape, making its New Directors/New Films premiere this week, is a deeply affecting debut that finds cinematic language for the complex pain of estrangement.

Read @blakethinks.bsky.social's Critic's Pick review: thefilmstage.com/cannes-revie...

I went to visit Quantic Dream in Paris in the nadir of the David Cage era, when they were making that terrible Beyond game. I swear to you: the word EMOTION was written on the studio wall in big black lettering

famous music video with first mate schee in the corner

That’s Smee in the corner

Willy Crash arcade game stuck on error screen

i guess he will

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported, read, and shared my work so far. I can't wait to advance my writing, meet more people, and bridge the breadth of Japanese contemporary cinema further with the wider world :)

I am honoured, moved, and excited to share that I have been awarded a 2026 Daiwa Scholarship for my work writing on Japanese cinema

In September, I'll be moving to Tokyo, where I'll undertake intensive language study and work placements in my field :)

dajf.org.uk/scholarships...

New from me for Filmmaker Mag: Major Japanese film studios are bringing liminal horror indie games to the big screen, with more than adaptation on their minds. I spoke with EXIT 8's Genki Kawamura and THE CONVENIENCE STORE's Jiro Nagae to find out more
filmmakermagazine.com/133576-inter...

The new VERY hagriographic Michael Jackson biopic starring MJ's nephew is out at the end of the month. But back in 2004 an unauthorised and EQUALLY flattering biopic was made in Canada. Here is a clip and I promise you have NO idea where it's going. I haven't done a single edit here.

Father Mother Sister Brother review – an astute, open-hearted… This lilting, lyrical study of parent-child relationships is an offering of sublime tenderness and delicate observation from filmmaker Jim Jarmusch.

My lead review of FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER for
@lwlies.com is now online. Out Friday in the UK from MUBI

'The Last Blossom' Director Baku Kinoshita Discusses His Poetic Animated Feature | Animation Magazine Director Baku Kinoshita discusses the blending of nature and humanity in his poetic new anime feature, 'The Last Blossom.'

For @animag.bsky.social, I spoke with Oddtaxi's Baku Kinoshita about his refreshing and reflective character drama THE LAST BLOSSOM. I really love this one.

In UK cinemas now from @alltheanime.com

Award-winning composer Daniel Pemberton charts new frontiers scoring Project Hail Mary - Soundsphere magazine Project Hail Mary is the blockbuster du jour at the multiplex box office this month. A space odyssey starring Ryan Gosling and an unexpectedly charming walking

For @soundspheremag.bsky.social, I spoke with @danielpemberton.bsky.social about scoring space sensitively in PROJECT HAIL MARY

Yoshitoshi Shinomiya On Crafting His Debut 'A New Dawn' The painter-turned-director explains his analog techniques, visual philosophy, and decade-long journey behind a Berlinale competition debut.

I had a blast speaking with artist-turned-animator Yoshitoshi Shinomiya about his journey to bring Berlinale debut A NEW DAWN to the screen. For @cartoonbrew.bsky.social

www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

“I believe many of you know my age but I’m full of life because as you know, a Scorpion never dies.”🦂

Meiko Kaji ending her NYC trip by making us all emotional 🥲

What a beautiful experience, thank you @japansociety.org for making this happen

Often separating the art from the artist is separating the abuse from the abuser, and that isn’t the rock solid logical superior intellectual position to have.

The Death of The Author means the authors intent doesn’t negate people to having an oppositional decoding of a piece of work.

Programming Japanese Cinema: Kano Matilda In the first of a series of curator interviews, the mind behind Riverside Studios’ ‘21st Century Japan’ strand

Japanese independent cinema is proliferating in London's repertory cinemas. Who's programming it, and why?

In the first of a series of curator chats, I spoke with Kano Matilda, whose '21st Century Japan' strand at
@riversidelondon.bsky.social brings us Super Happy Forever and more

Here’s an article I wrote!

In the Rebecca Riots, men wore women’s clothes as disguise, not to undo gender, but to move through it.

Sometimes identity becomes something systems can and will absorb (even rely on), without anything really shifting underneath

Mink Stole and Peaches Christ talk trash, collaboration and community: “Divine eating the dog poop was way past the tolerance level of most people” Longtime John Waters collaborator Mink Stole and cult drag icon Peaches Christ reflect on their unlikely creative partnership, the radical legacy of ‘trash cinema’, and how their latest show celebrate...

I spoke with two trash legends for the BFI: Mink Stole and Peaches Christ. We discussed the legacy of trash, the importance of community, and Mink's Instagram reels algorithm

www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/m...

Tetsuya Nomura appearing in this as a disembodied voice talking from an empty chair as Kitase enthusiastically nods along has sent me to the fucking MOON

Grimm Grimm talks us through his new album ‘Eternalise’ - Soundsphere magazine Hypnotic, richly textured, and deeply felt, Grimm Grimm’s new album ‘Eternalise’ is musical quicksand – a well of emotion to surrender and sink into. The brainchild of Tokyo-born, London-based recordi...

Richly textured and deeply felt, Grimm Grimm's new album ETERNALISE is musical quicksand – a well of emotion to surrender and sink into

We spoke about his collaborations with Kojima and Eiko Ishibashi, and how personal and interpersonal forces shaped this LP

www.soundspheremag.com/news/grimm-g...

a banner showcasing rounded still images from We're All Going to the World's Fair, So Pretty and Lingua Franca with the wrods TRAMPS, TROUBLEMAKERS AND TRAILBLAZERS: TRANS FILMMAKERS to the left

It appears that the news has broken that Caden Mark Gardner and I have programmed a series on Trans Filmmakers for the Criterion Channel. These films will be available in April

www.criterion.com/current/post...

Announcing… the new print edition of Little White Lies, inspired by the cinema of Jim Jarmusch, with special focus on his wonderful new film, Father Mother Sister Brother, which is out in the UK on 10 April.

The cover is by Berlin-based illustrator Yannik Saal.

:)

First trailer for "Cherry and Virgin", an indie feature film directed (& crowdfunded) by Masanao Kawajiri (using rotoscoping).
Character designs by mangakas Katsuya Takayanagi & Ryo Nakaharu.
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxZt...

Watch BFI Flare at 40 - BFI Player Programmers, filmmakers, and attendees past and present chart the history of BFI Flare to mark its 40th anniversary, from parties to politics.

To celebrate 40 years of BFI Flare, the BFI have made a lovely documentary speaking with the programmers, filmmakers, and attendees that made it sing.

Grateful and proud to have been involved with this as interviewer.

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