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A scene from "Tezuka's Barbara" (Provided by Free Stone Productions Co.) Director Makoto Tezuka accepted the risky challenge of adapting what is perhaps his famous father's most peculiar manga, a piece so personal that likely only the man who wrote it truly grasped its meaning. Based on "Barubora" by Osamu Tezuka, aka the "god of manga," "Tezuka's Barbara" is a fantasy riddled with decadence. "I think this was the only manga that my father had trouble in creating," the director said. "In a positive sense, its instability is all the more reason for it to be strangely appealing."  The story b...

Dead to Me – copyright. Netflix Dead to Me on Netflix is returning for a third season, which will also sadly be it’s last. Here’s the latest news, and everything we know so far about what we can expect going into the final season. We’ll also cover what new content Dead to Me’s showrunner will be producing after the series wraps.  Dead to Me is a Netflix Original black-comedy series created by Liz Feldman. The series has fast become one of the most-watched comedy series on Netflix, having amassed an audience of over 30 million worldwide in the first season.

Trends of 2020: The year in branding and logos From clever responses to Covid to a visually revitalised financial sector and a renewed understanding of heritage, we look back on the last 12 months of branding 15/12/2020 7:24 am Despite a year of upheaval, plenty of companies invested in branding in 2020, commissioning updated logos, overhauling visual identities and, in some cases, dreaming up playful ways of responding to the pandemic. At the same time, we saw the rise of Black Lives Matter’s raised fist symbol, and signs of many companies tackling difficult topics such as climate change...

In the Mood for Love Wong Kar-wai is inarguably one of the most influential directors of contemporary cinema. A filmmaker who never sees his work as complete, as well as one who openly admits to shooting full sequences of films that get thrown on the cutting room floor, Wong is the ideal candidate for a restoration because he won't hold his first completed project with nostalgic treasure. Starting this week, AFS Cinema's streaming platform AFS at Home presents redesigned, reedited, and revived versions of seven of his works, all in 4K, under the banner of World of Wong Kar-wai. Wong has never...

G. Allen Johnson December 9, 2020Updated: December 10, 2020, 12:28 pm Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung star in Wong Kar-wai’s “In the Mood for Love” (2000). Photo: Janus Films The neon-drenched underworld of “As Tears Go By,” the 1988 Hong Kong noir that announced an exciting new visionary, is now even more seductively seedy. And the agony of unrequited love a tailor has for a high-end prostitute in “The Hand” suddenly has a foodie component. We haven’t had a new Wong Kar-wai film in seven years, since “The Grandmaster,” but fans can rejoice: He has spent the past...