Something to watch tonight: Wednesday 27 September

Mirai (Hosoda, 2018) is streaming on Funimation

On this day in 2019, filling in for Simon Morris on RNZ’s At the Movies, I was lucky enough to review this little anime gem which is now one of the films near the top of my “most fond of” list.

Mirai is about childhood (as so many of my favourites are):

Four-year-old Kun is the apple of his family’s eye until Mum and Dad come home with new sister Mirai. K…