Under Southern Eyes – Page 163 – A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.

Looking for ramen and vending machines but getting oden-kan and pachinko machines instead

April 8, 20107 min read

Patrick W Galbraith, The Otaku Encyclopedia: An insider’s guide to the subculture of Cool Japan, Kodansha International Ltd, Tokyo, 2009 (ISBN 978-4-7700-3101-3) As a sometimes avid…

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British Films

Control: apt title for Joy Division / Ian Curtis biopic where control is not much in evidence

January 18, 20106 min read

It’s apt that this biopic about Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis should be called Control because, apart from the reference to the famous Joy Division…

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British Films

Nowhere Boy

January 3, 20104 min read

You don’t need to know much about The Beatles or John Lennon in particular to watch Sam Taylor-Wood’s Nowhere Boy (Ecosse Films / Icon), a fictionalised…

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North American Films

Don’t say you weren’t warned: It might get loud

November 2, 20096 min read

Here’s the recipe: take three rock guitarists, each representative of his generation of rock musicians, put them together in a huge warehouse space with their instruments…

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