Tag: animation
Shudder in May: NIGHTWATCH: DEMONS ARE FOREVER, STOPMOTION And a Lot of TOXIC AVENGER Movies
We believe it is safe to say that Spring is finally here in North America. Relatively safe. Pretty sure it is safe. Not only will April showers bring May flowers but May also sees the arrival of the new...
BLOOD OF ZEUS Season 2 Trailer: Something Bloody and Mythological This Way Comes
I'm always amazed at how many good shows completely fly by me. Case in point: Blood of Zeus, an animated show about gods and demons and other monsters of Greek mythology, created by Charley Parlapanides and Vlas Parlapanides. Season 1...
Pretty Packaging: The French Limited GANDAHAR Release Is Stacked
The French animation director René Laloux only made three feature films in his career, but each of those became a science fiction cult classic. His Fantastic Planet made it into the Criterion collection, and the DVDs Eureka released of the...
Friday One Sheet: CORALINE (Re-Release)
Arguably the scariest film aimed at children in the past 15 years, Coraline, the animated classic from Laika Studios, writer Neil Gaiman, and director Henry Selick, is getting a re-release in August. The poster designer, whom I have had bit...
Now Streaming: WHAT IF ...? S2, You Already Know
Marvel's series features lovely animation, and alternate takes on superheroes.
THE BOY AND THE HERON Review: Culmination of a Life's Work
Hayao Miyazaki's new film.
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2023 Review: GOLD KINGDOM AND WATER KINGDOM
In the Netherlands, we only get the most successful anime films in the cinema, the record-breakers. For all the others, you need to check the festivals, and thankfully the Camera Japan Festival always has at least a few titles in...
Toronto 2023 Review: THE BOY AND THE HERON, Sumptuous Miyazaki-San, Studio Ghibli Career Retrospective
From the opening air raid sirens and fiery infernos of World War II Tokyo bombings to the bucolic countryside house and its magical surroundings, Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli has come full circle in its 40 year history animated mastery....
Now Streaming: THE PEBBLE AND THE PENGUIN, Underrated Don Bluth Film
Filmmaker Don Bluth is underrated as it is, and so is this movie. Usually, when people think of penguins in movies, they think of Happy Feet or maybe Surf's Up, but The Pebble and the Penguin (1995) is an overlooked...
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE Review: Superhero Storytelling Raised to High Art
Shameik Moore and Hailee Steinfeld star in the animated sequel.
Pretty Packaging: GHOST IN THE SHELL Lands An Ultimate Edition
Blu-ray distributor Plaion, previously known in Germany as Koch Media, has been responsible for some Special Editions which were absolute jawdroppers. Their release of Richard Stanley's The Color Out of Space was a highpoint for me in 2020, and last...
STAR WARS: VISIONS Series Two Trailer Delivers Exciting And Eclectic Mix of Styles And Action
Animation at Star Wars remains an integral part of story telling in the greater SWU. Case in point, we saw this as recently as the trailer for the live action series Ohsaka on the weekend, recreating the final moments of...
JOURNEY BACK TO OZ Review: Forgotten Beauty
Liza Minelli voices Dorothy in the animated feature, completed in 1972.
Review: NEW GODS: YANG JIAN, Pretty, Pretty Pictures
Directed by Zhao Ji, the animated adventure from China looks very good.
Now Streaming: THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA, Dragons From Nowhere Rain Destruction
The fantasy action-adventure series from Critical Role, animated by Titmouse, returns on Prime Video.
UNICORN WARS Trailer: Teddy Bears And Unicorns Fight to The Death!
In this story of two brother teddy bear soldiers Azulín yearns for unicorn blood to be beautiful for ever and Gordi just wants to be accepted and liked.
Now Streaming: STRANGE WORLD Bombing Was Not Its Fault
By now, critics and audiences have seen and learned about the newest animated Disney film Strange World and how it became one of the biggest bombs in the studio's history. Mel Valentin already reviewed the film and called it wildly...
INFINITY POOL Trailer: Damnit, Brandon Cronenberg's Sundance Title Looks Amazing
If it were any other person the thought of being the offspring of the great David Cronenberg would be daunting. Forunately for us the Cronenberg gene pool is immensely deep, bottomless even. Brandon Cronenberg looks like he's going to...
Review: GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO, Stunningly Realized Stop-Motion Animation
There’s a moment in the stunningly realized Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio where the familiar title character (winningly voiced by Gregory Mann), newly granted a semblance of animated life by a compassionate supernatural spirit, attempts to greet his new “father,” Geppetto...
Review: WENDELL & WILD, A Stop-Motion Roller Coaster
“One scream, and my parents were gone.” After an abrupt car crash (aren’t they all?) a very young girl, Kat, loses her loving, independent and artistic parents. She ends up in “the system,” a series of orphanages and youth detention...
