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27 April 2012 11:35 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

It looks like another stellar quarter for Arrow Video who've just announced their Summer/Autumn slate for 2012. The most interesting additions are the set of Troma produced features, which look stellar, thanks in large part to a healthy dose of bonus material and some outstanding custom cover art from the legendary Graham Humphreys. The other very cool release is a Blu-ray two pack of the original Lady Snowblood films, available both as dual format Blu-ray/DVD and in Steelbook configurations. All of these look awesome, though be sure to check out the region coding info before getting too excited. It looks like Class of Nuke 'Em High will be all region, but Lady Snowblood will be Region B. I don't know about you, but that artwork »

13 April 2012 1:24 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »

The Terracotta Far East Film Festival is on in London through the weekend, presenting, as Electric Sheep notes in the introduction to its newish issue, "the UK premiere of Sion Sono's Himizu [review: John Bleasdale], using a comic to tackle the fallout from Fukushima." Es takes "a look at manga adaptations with Takashi Miike's stylized, violent high school movie Crows Zero [comic strip review: Joe Morgan] and Toshiya Fujita's 70s revenge tale Lady Snowblood: Blizzard from the Netherworld [review: Virginie Sélavy]."

Hiroyuki Okiura's A Letter to Momo, seven years in the making, opens in Japan next week after a run through the festival circuit and, in the Japan Times, Mark Schilling gives it four out of five stars: "Hayao Miyazaki is the obvious point of comparison, but unlike many of Miyazaki's more fanciful landscapes, Okiura's port is vividly, recognizably real — so much so that you can almost smell the salt in the water and feel the warmth of the stones. »

2 items from 2012