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VEXILLE SPEED RACER
RELEASE: 9 MAY RELEASE: 9 MAY
CERT: 15 CERT: PG
Japanese anime finally comes of age with Vexille – a killer, illustrated feature film This is the kind of movie that dance music fans are going to go nuts for. Based on the
powered by the latest CG technology that pushes the boundaries of what viewers English dub of the ’60s Japanese cartoon Mach GoGoGo, Speed Racer is the latest
expect from genre-defining releases like Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle. The directorial from the brains behind the Matrix trilogy. Matrix Revolutions and particularly
soundtrack behind this movie gives away clues to its high-quality production values Matrix Reloaded were hideously convoluted piles of celluloid, but the Wachowski
– The Prodigy, Basement Jaxx, DJ Shadow, Underworld, Asian Dub Foundation, Boom brothers did pull of the greatest science fiction movie pre-2000 – The Matrix – so they
Boom Satellites and M.I.A. all show up to concoct a dark soundscape which enhances deserve one more chance, right?
the intoxicating visuals onscreen. Fumihiko Sori is the main man behind this visual
revolution – a veteran of the Digital Domain visual effects company and one of the key The story of this movie goes: in a futuristic fantasy world, a prodigious “speed racer”
character animators on James Cameron’s Academy Award winning Titanic. called Speed (Emile Hirsch) has his dreams offered to him by a bent businessman, and
eventually has to defy this master to emerge as a pure competitor. Everything in Speed
Vexille is directed by the creative team of the famed Appleseed series, and is a Racer is played out in cartoon-esque CGI, containing special effects so awesome that
stereotypically convoluted Japanese adventure, highlighting the violent conquests they make the action in the Matrix resemble a couch argument on the Neighbours sofa.
of two heroines across a rugged fantasy landscape. The story is set in the year 2077, Imagine a hi-octane cross of PlayStation classics Destruction Derby with Wipeout, plus
where the UN has banned android research, causing Japan to once again shut off its a Back to the Future banana filling, and you’re close to the madness of Speed Racer.
borders to the outside world. Gestating within are the unimaginably futuristic creations
of Japanese scientists. If you like the Eastern style depicting futurism then you’ll love The film is cheesy – yes – but it has the feel good vibes of the classic family
Vexille. If you’re the sort who prefers more plot-driven films then you might want to racing movies of yesteryear, like Tron and Days of Thunder. Christina Ricci acts her
think again before seeing it. For dance music freaks, especially those into drum & bass, melodramatic best, and the childhood enthusiasm behind Speed Racer’s glossy
the content of Vexille should serve as huge inspiration for your creative life. production and stylisation is dazzling. Fans of Micro Machines should put the Speed
Racer release date in their diaries now.
DVD, BLU-RAY & HD-DVD
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON TENJHO TENGE:
30 DAYS OF NIGHT BARBER OF FLEET STREET BOX SET (7 DISCS) GAME OF DEATH
FORMAT: BLU-RAY/DVD FORMAT: BLU-RAY/DVD (2 DISCS) FORMAT: DVD FORMAT: DVD
(SPECIAL EDITION) RELEASE: 19 MAY RELEASE: 12 MAY RELEASE: OUT NOW
RELEASE: OUT NOW PRICE: £27.99/£22.99 PRICE: £49.99 PRICE: £9.99
PRICE: £24.99/£19.99
Who doesn’t like Johnny Depp? The Based on the original Manga called Bruce Lee was a bit of a legend. He was
Horror fans unite, by buying 30 Days Of answer to that lies in how many copies Oh Great (real name: Ito Oogure) hard as nails apparently. Off the tops of
Night! Whilst this type of film is never this Blu-ray and DVD sells. The sane and produced by Studio Madhouse our overgrown melons, cool things we can
going to win an Academy Award, fans person would predict, quite correctly, (Gungrave; Trigun; Vampire Hunter D), recall that Mr. Lee did were: “one-inch
of laughable ’80s horror like Friday millions. The reason for this is because Tenjho Tenge is an action-comedy anime punches” that could send recipients
the 13th and even good ones like Lost Depp’s acting is as far away from cheesy set in a high school where considerable flying across a room, press ups with
Boys might like 30 Days of Night. It’s as you like. He’s pretty damn cool – men kung fu skills are the only thing that one hand using just a thumb and index
modern, so it is, boasting swish camera want to be him, women want to be with can take you to the top of the class. finger, 50 chin ups with one hand, and
angles and extensive visual post- him, as the cliché goes. We’ll stop kissing Souichiro Nagi, a short-tempered kid denting trees by punching them with his
production. 30 Days of Night looks Depp’s hairy cheeks for one second to with a massive chip on his shoulder, and finger. Unfortunately, Bruce Lee died from
particularly killer on Blu-ray – it’s so tell you what you get on these releases. his best friend Bob have made a name swelling of the brain before filming for
damned crisp that you could put it in a The Blu-ray – nothing apart from the for themselves transferring from one this movie was complete. As such, he only
bag of Walkers and nobody would bat movie! The DVD version, on the other high school to another and taking each turns up at the end of Game of Death! For
an eyelid. Shame about the horribly hand, gives you commentary by Burton, one over by kicking ass. But even their Bruce Lee fans, this will be an important
bad storyline and wonky sense of the real history of the demon barber, a legendary fighting skills could not have part of their collection. It features some
continuity though. Based on a vampiric look at how they recreated ye olde Fleet prepared them for the challenge that of his best fight scenes and the infamous
comic book mini-series, 30 Days Of Street and much more besides. awaits at their latest seat of learning yellow jumpsuit which has been parodied
Night looks good, and comes with a – the Todo Academy, where martial arts in dozens of major releases since.
nice graphic novel bonus feature. are a required part of the curriculum.
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