As my wife pointed out after exiting the theatre, Up has the saddest beginning to an animated movie since Bambi’s mum got shot. Here we have a boy and a girl falling in love. They have all kinds of hopes for the future – they want to have a family and they want to have all kinds of adventures. But they find out...

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When I first watched The Silence of the Lambs, I thought how crazy it would be to have Hannibal Lecter out in the open. The mad fucker would be eating people left, right and centre. He’d be chowing down every day on entrails, brains and flabby buttocks (maybe even titties and testes). No one would be safe. You’d be walking down the street...

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The horrors of war aren’t restricted to the battlefield. They also spread to the cities and the towns. This is what Grave of the Fireflies captures so masterfully. It paints the story of an ordinary family in Kobe during the end of the Second World War. One day some American bombers attack and the residents predict it’s going to be a heavy bombing....

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