and the new film by takashi miike — first love, a valentine's offering with a difference. you suggesting that sonic the hedgehog is not up foran award? not an oscar—winner necessarily. so, console game characters... did you ever play sonic the hedgehog? do you know what, i'm afraid i didn't. i'm not good at video games. that's fine because it means you can go |n... just not my... me neither, but it means you can go in open—minded. so, console game character, taken out of his native environment, sent to earth in order to get away from evil forces, teams up with a likeable sheriff but soon finds himself the subject of the attentions of a very evil scientist played byjim carrey, never knowingly understated. here's a clip. i'm going to give you five seconds to tell me where it is! five... ok, i don't know what you're talking about. ..four... hey, tough guy, i'm a cop, and you're threatning an officer. how can you threaten somebody who never existed ? ..three... come on, wrack your brain! you might be able to come up with some lame excuse to go on living, in two... ..one... wai

it is by takashi miike. it is a valentines day love story.d up with a young woman who he saves and then they're involved with a plot involving yakuzas, corrupt cops, boxing, things about honour and death and bloodshed. i'm already exhausted! all thrown together. at one point it even turns into a cartoon. here's a clip. watching a ta kashi watching a takashi miike a film as being like hit over the head by exportation cinema. he is an extraordinary film—maker, this is his 103rd film. if you like is that kind of sensation, it's violent, it's crazy, it's romantic, it's exploited and all those things. and it is an alternative valentines movie. it's completely the opposite of emma. i'm not recommending it for you because i don't think you like it, but if you're a fan of this director you'll know what's going be in it. this brings us to the subject, parasite. clearly the best thing out in cinema. itjust won the oscar for best film, first ever foreign language film to do so. you liked it too? i really did, even though there's a couple moments of elem

and the new film by takashi miike — first love, a valentine's offering with a difference.foran award? not an oscar—winner necessarily. so, console game characters... did you ever play sonic the hedgehog? do you know what, i'm afraid i didn't. i'm not good at video games. that's fine because it means you can go in... just not my... me neither, but it means you can go in open—minded. so, console game character, taken out of his native environment, sent to earth in order to get away from evil forces, teams up with a likeable sheriff but soon finds himself the subject of the attentions of a very evil scientist played byjim carrey, never knowingly understated. here's a clip. i'm going to give you five seconds to tell me where it is! five... ok, i don't know what you're talking about. ..four... hey, tough guy, i'm a cop, and you're threatning an officer. how can you threaten somebody who never existed ? ..three... come on, wrack your brain! you might be able to come up with some lame excuse to go on living, in two... ..one... wait, don't hurt him! screams now, weirdly enough, th

i'm not recommending it for you because i don't think you'd like it but if you're a takashi miike fanto the subject of best out. this crosses all forms of genre. parasite, clearly the best thing out in cinema and hasjust genre. parasite, clearly the best thing out in cinema and has just won the oscar for best film, the best film entirely in a foreign language to do so. you really liked it?|j did, even though there's a couple of elements of blood, where i had to look away, but as a story it was so clever, so interesting, really well written. which genre would you say it is in? i have struggled to describe it to people. exactly. social satire about everything. but with a ghost story element in it, with a ghost story element in it, with some moments of horror? with some dark humour. things you recoiled from, also family melodrama mixed in. yes, some bits are quite funny. and visually very striking, it has the most extraordinary soundtrack which goes from these piano tunes to the choral stuff and the sound of a musical saw. there's so much going on in it and i've now seen it four times an