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It's Samson Month here at Heroic Cinema, everyone: shaming us all with his prodigious output over the last couple of weeks, he's written up no less than five separate reviews spanning a number of different countries of origin and cinematic genres.
First cab off the rank is Neon Genesis Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone, the first of four new movies that remake the original anime series with glorious modern CGI. With much of the original creative team and a run of awards in Japan and internationally, it sounds like this is one to watch for fans of the series or mecha anime in general.
Sticking with anime for the moment, Samson has also reviewed the Jing: King of Bandits: 7th Heaven OVA, which drops us into Jing's world of adventure and banditry and reveals some of the backstory behind the series. We've also got his writeup of Madman's Astro Boy: Collection 1, 1275 minutes of classic anime that plugs directly into the childhoods of many of us -- like Monkey, Astro Boy is something I remember watching for years.
Moving on to live-action cinema, we have 2002's controversial film Suicide Club, from Japanese director Sion Sono. Notorious for some of its graphic visuals, this one won't suit every viewer, but it does sound like a distinctive and challenging film. Finally, we have celebrated South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's most recent film, Mother, a thriller about a mother's quest to prove that her intellectually-disabled son is innocent of murder. Samson predicts that Bong Joon-ho will dominate Korean cinema this decade, and I think he's right -- he's certainly doing well for himself so far!
More from us in a couple of weeks!
Justin Viiret
Sunday 11th July, 2010
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