Cult Movie Reviews

Angel’s Egg is a 1985 anime OVA written and directed by Mamoru Oshii.  It was devised by Mamoru Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano. Whether it’s fan...

Millennium Actress is a 2001 anime feature film co-written and directed by Satoshi Kon. His first feature film, the superb Perfect Blue (1...

Armitage III: Dual Matrix was released in 2001. Something that needs to be clarified in regard to Armitage III: Dual Matrix right at the st...

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence is writer-director Mamoru Oshii’s sequel to his 1995 masterpiece Ghost in the Shell .  Both take Masamune S...

A Kite is a 1998 anime and its release history is rather interesting. It’s a two-episode OVA (intended for direct-to-video release). Given ...

If you go into Belladonna of Sadness expecting the kind of anime movie you’re accustomed to you’ll be confused and disappointed. This is no...

Ergo Proxy is a 2006 Japanese cyberpunk anime TV series.  This is cyberpunk with quite a few other added flavourings. This is a complex int...

Genocyber is a five-episode 1994 anime OVA directed by Kôichi Ôhata based on Tony Takezaki’s 1992 manga Genocyber: The Beauty Devil from Ps...

Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s supernatural anime Demon City Shinjuku (AKA Hell City Shinjuku AKA Monster City ) is a follow-up of sorts to his super...

Gunbuster is a 1988-89 anime OVA. It features an epic struggle for survival with space monsters, giant robots, time paradoxes and scantily-...

Blood: The Last Vampire is a fascinating anime film that, with its running time of 48 minutes, is not quite a feature film. It was shot in ...

Ninja Scroll is a 1993 anime film written and directed by one of the anime greats, Yoshiaki Kawajiri. It combines action, adventure, swordp...