Your Name/Kimi no na wa

Scotland Loves Anime is a fantastic festival, and it returned to Edinburgh and Glasgow this October with an exceptionally impressive programme. One of the undoubted jewels in the crown of this year’s programming was Makoto Shinkai’s latest offering Your Name. Best known for 5 Centimeters Per Second and The Garden of Words, Shinkai seems to have…

Kubo and the Two Strings

For those who know of, and love, Laika Entertainment’s past cinematic releases, Boxtrolls, Paranorman, and Coraline, the news that Kubo and the Two Strings was coming elicited a feeling similar to a new Pixar release. They have a very distinct style and the use of stop-motion in an age of modern CGI is seen as…