Author: Alex Leadbeater

Freelance film journalist. Described as the most condescending narcissist on the internet. Once met the Chuckle Brothers. Follow him on Twitter @ADLeadbeater.

Your Name: the House of Miyazaki isn’t the only game in Tokyo

The major PR push for Your Name is that it was and remains a smash hit in Japan, making 15 billion yen ($170 million) at the box office over only 10 weeks, a base stat only made more impressive given that it’s a major Japanese animation not from Studio Ghibli.

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I, Daniel Blake is a rallying cry for social justice

There’s something strange about reviewing a Ken Loach film in 2016.

When I was born, Kes was already a perennial classic from my parents’ childhoods, and, almost a quarter century on, that film pushing fifty, Loach is still there directing socially pertinent work.…