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Odd Obsessions
Spank The Monkey previews the 2017 edition of the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme, showing in cinemas around the UK for the next two months Here at Europe’s Best Website, we’re big fans of the...
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We Are X
Spank The Monkey reviews a new documentary telling the story of Japan’s most unGoogleable rock band If you know Japanese popular music at all, it’s probably because of its idol culture: the shiny girls...
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Babycart On The Ray Of Blu
Spank The Monkey doesn’t usually enjoy movies about children, but he’ll make an exception for Lone Wolf and Cub Lone Wolf and Cub – a series of six films made in Japan between 1972 and 1974, and...
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It’s Just A Show
The cruellest scientific experiment in television history has recommenced after a hiatus of nearly two decades. Spank The Monkey puts on his lab coat to revisit Mystery Science Theater 3000. Yelling...
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Mostly MIF 2017
Once every two years, Spank The Monkey returns to the city of his birth for a weekend-long culture binge at the Manchester International Festival. Here’s what he saw this year. In our last episode,...
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Shin Godzilla
Godzilla is back, and doing what it does best: embodying Japanese anxieties about nuclear annihilation. Spank The Monkey approves. (Of Godzilla, obviously, not of nuclear annihilation.) Any film critic...
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The Good Place
A full year after it was originally broadcast, The Good Place is finally coming to the UK via Netflix. Spank The Monkey watched it on a plane a while ago: maybe now he’ll finally stop banging on about...
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Monoglot Movie Club: The Secret Life Of Arabia
Part of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar languages, and then complains about not understanding them. This episode: Saudi Arabia...
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Monoglot Movie Club Special: Netflix i Chłód
It’s the end of an era for us; indeed it is the end of us. After almost seven years, MostlyFilm – for most of this decade, Europe’s Best Website – is calling it a day. But we’re not going to just walk...
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SEVEN OF SEVEN – Monoglot Movie Club: Epitaph 1
Continuing our look back on the last seven years of MostlyFilm, here’s the final part of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar...
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