Hayao Miyazaki gives us another amazing animated epic with Spirited Away. Anime might be crazy sometimes but it sure knows how to get me hooked at the Japanese Anime and Manga Society at the University of Lincoln.
AltFilms: Spirited Away
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Category Archives: Culture
May the 4th be with you! – from AltLinc
If there ever was a holiday you could define as “alternative”, this is most certainly it. Devout Star Wars fans decided that May the fourth was an apt enough date for a Star Wars themed holiday – and it caught on faster than anyone could have ever imagined. Continue reading
Top Three Alternative April Fools Pranks
Nope, we’re not fooling you today folks. Instead we’re bringing you the top three most original and ridiculous April Fools Day pranks ever conceived. The bucket of water on the door trap can consider itself retired. The “newspapering a door frame” trick can hang its head in shame. It’s time for an alternative approach to April Fools Day. Continue reading
AltFilms: Wolf Children
A tear-jerker that shows the importance of family no matter who you are, even if you’re half wolf.
Alternative Mother’s Day
No we don’t mean ‘alternative mother’ in this way
When we were younger we always used to give our mothers letters, handmade cards or a picture, perhaps through a lack of money or sheer imagination. Yet as we’ve grown up Mother’s Day has become extremely commercialised, with the standard gifts across the country being a moonpig card (yes we’re singing the theme tune too) and some already doomed cut flowers.
We’ve got nothing against those moonpig guys but if you want to give something a little more special to the main woman in your life, read on. Continue reading