Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast #9: The Future of Cinema

The Boy and the Heron Review

Hayao Miyazaki is a legend of Japanese animation, making numerous classics like My Neighbour Totoro, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away. After a 10-year break, Miyazaki has returned with possibly his last film, The Boy and the Heron. Mahito Maki (Luca Padovan) is a young boy who loses his mother during an Allied bombing raid on Tokyo during the Second […]

Britflix: Never Let Me Go

2010’s Never Let Me Go was an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel of the same name. The adaptation was able to attract some amazing talent in front of and behind the camera. In 1952 there has been a medical breakthrough that allows people to live up to 100 years old. But this health revolution came at a […]

The X-Men Movies: Worst to Best

20th Century Fox’s version of the X-Men has come to an end with the mutants set to join the MCU. Fox’s franchises span 12 films that were made over 19 years.  It was a series which attracted some great filmmakers who got to work with some of the best source material comic books have to offer. The film series has […]