Tag: animation
Opening This Week: LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS, ROSEMEAD, JUJUTSU KAISEN: EXECUTION
Plus: 'Under Current (Noi Mok),' '100 Nights of Hero,' 'Frontier Crucible.'
Now Playing: ETERNITY Romance, HAMNET Grief, WAKE UP DEAD MAN Mystery
Plus: 'Zootopia 2' from Disney, and 'The Thing With Feathers,' coming Friday.
ZOOTOPIA 2 Review: Sequel Ups the Laughs, Set Pieces, and Positive Messaging
While it’s far from a shock that Zootopia, Disney Animation Studios’ Academy Award-winning, billion-dollar-earning, box-office hit, spawned a not-unexpected sequel, taking the better part of a decade to reach IP-ready audiences certainly qualifies as one (a shock, that is). ...
ANGEL'S EGG Review: What's in There?
Mamoru Oshii ('Ghost in the Shell') tells a mysterious story in a mesmerizing fashion.
Opening This Week: SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE, ANGEL'S EGG, Plus 2 FYC Contenders and a Drama
Our guide to what's opening this week in movie theaters.
Now Streaming: DOWN CEMETERY ROAD Sprightly Trods Familiar Path, TALES FROM THE REZ Tells Stories From Fresh Perspectives
Our weekly guide to new and noteworthy indie and international genre fare.
STAR WARS: VISIONS, Volume 3 Review: Ronin, Rogues, and Rebellion- Star Wars: Visions Returns in Style
Star Wars: Visions - Volume 3 is streaming now, on Disney+
CHAINSAW MAN - THE MOVIE: REZE ARC Review: Beautifully Animated, Slightly Repetitive Blast
A note at the start that Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (just "Reze Arc" going forward because wow, what a title) is entirely accessible to the curious who have not seen the show. Some ongoing threads are touched...
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA INFINITY CASTLE Review: And You Thought Darth Vader Was Evil
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki, the first installment in an animated trilogy is often dizzying, yet more often simply dazzling.
Now FASTing: NE ZHA, A Boy Chooses His Own Destiny
An animated Chinese fantasy adventure that became a runaway hit -- and deservedly so.
NE ZHA II Review: Gods, Demons, Spectacular Action
China's blockbuster animated hit returns in a new English-dubbed version that surpasses all expectations.
KPOP DEMON HUNTERS: A Sing-Along Event is Coming to Theaters!
When they aren't selling out stadiums, Kpop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey use their secret identities as badass demon hunters to protect their fans from an ever-present supernatural threat. Together, they must face their biggest enemy yet – an irresistible...
BOYS GO TO JUPITER Review: Singular Lo-Fi Sci-Fi Animated Musical Comedy
The “how” behind Adult Swim veteran and videogame creator Julian Glander’s (Art Sqool) feature-length, filmmaking debut, Boys Go to Jupiter, an impressively realized, genre-bending animated film that has to be seen — and just as importantly, heard, not just for its...
Fantasia 2025 Review: THE GIRL WHO STOLE TIME, After the Animation Dazzles, the Story Grabs Your Heartstrings
Qian Xiao grew up in a quiet fishing village, but she’s never wanted a peaceful life. She wants out, and when she spots a supply boat heading to the mainland, she sneaks aboard without a plan. Midway through the...
THE BAD GUYS 2 Review: The Rare Sequel That Significantly Improves On Its Predecessor
When we first met the Sam Rockwell-voiced Mr. Wolf, the whistle-slick, silver-tongued animated star of The Bad Guys, DreamWorks Animation Studios’s modestly successful 2022 animated release, he was living the life -- the criminal life. As a George Clooney-in-Ocean's-11-inspired heist-master,...
Now Streaming: Akiva Schaffer's HOT ROD, THE WATCH, POPSTAR, CHIP 'N DALE: RESCUE RANGERS
Where to watch the director's first four feature films.
Fantasia 2025 Short Film, Short Review: LE TOUR DE CANADA
Fuelled by strong beer, broken glass, and raw fish, John Hollands' Le Tour De Canada is a frenetic race from St. John’s to Vancouver somewhere in an alternate 1970s - if the chroma keyed backdrops of Toronto are to be trusted, or...
Fantasia 2025 Review: I AM FRANKELDA, Mexico's First Stop-Motion Feature Is A Magical Treat
A confident young girl with a head full of strange and fantastical ideas partners with the prince of the realm of imagination to restore the balance between fantasy and reality in the Ambriz Brothers’ historic first feature, I Am Frankelda....
Fantasia 2025: 25 Films To Watch in '25 - Raising the Bloody Curtain on Genre Film Paradise
Fantasia is nearly upon us, and with almost two hundred feature films spread out over three weeks of cinematic bliss, we thought you could use a bit of a roadmap to success in what to look forward to at this...
BOYS GO TO JUPITER Trailer & Poster: The Slow-Fast Anxiety & Ennui of a Florida December
While there is a prevailing misconception, especially in North America, that animation is for kids, that luckily does not stop creators from making animated films by and for a grown-up audience. Especially in these strange days we live in, animation...
