Films

The annual Gold Coast Film Festival is a staple of my annual calendar, with it bringing a number of premieres and unique films to cinemas and other venues across the Gold Coast region. One of the interesting (and in my opinion,...

For many years now, the annual Gold Coast Film Festival has been one of the highlights on my calendar. As an aficionado of animated films, it has been an event I have had the opportunity to meet Makoto Shinkai...

About Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale In 2022, the world of virtual reality was upended by the arrival of a new invention from a genius programmer, Akihiko Kayaba. Called NerveGear, it was the first full-dive system and with it, came...

Serving as the inaugural feature film from Studio Ponoc, the animation studio founded by the now former Studio Ghibli producer Yoshiaki Nishimura and director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Mary and the Witch's Flower (メアリと魔女の花 | Meari to Majo no Hana) will be headed to Australian...

Been waiting for more anime content in the Sword Art Online media franchise? Your wait is almost over. Offering an anime-exclusive storyline, the franchises’ first theatrical film – Sword Art Online the Movie -Ordinal Scale- will be arriving in...

Following a number of other major cinematic screenings from the company in recent months, Australian anime and film publisher Madman Entertainment have confirmed they will be holding screenings of the live-action film Death Note: Light Up the NEW World in cinemas...

Next month, after years and years of waiting, Square Enix are finally set to release their long-awaited RPG Final Fantasy XV. This launch is set to be complemented by a range of tie-in media animations, some of which have been...

It has been confirmed in an announcement by Square Enix and Legendary Digital Studios that they will be joining forces to develop a digital series based on the video game franchise Life Is Strange, a multiinstallment series developed for...

With his other two recent feature films, Summer Wars and Wolf Children, acclaimed director Mamoru Hosoda had a focus on unique family dynamics. Whether it is a large family full of colourful and at times conflicting personalities uniting over...

As we bid farewell to June 2016, the 31 days of July lie ahead of us. While this means that a new assortment of anime will be headed our way from Madman Entertainment as of next week, the turn...