Tag: animation
ELIO Review: Pixar's Latest Stirs Heart and Senses in Equal Measure
For moviegoers of a certain vintage, Elio, Pixar’s latest addition to its stellar-level animated output, will feel comfortably, nostalgically familiar. Centering as it does on a starry-eyed preteen dreamer, Elio pays respectful homage to family-oriented 70s and 80s Amblin...
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Review: Live-Action Remake Fails to Justify Its Existence
When filmmaker Gus Van Zant (Milk, My Own Private Idaho, Drugstore Cowboy) remade Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Psycho, in 1998, critics somewhat justifiably dismissed the end result as a stunt, a prank, a jest, and not an affectionate homage to a...
PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS Review: Bloody, Terrific Tales of Action And Horror Nearly Undone by Overall Climax
A Viking clan-leader takes their son out for the ultimate Take Your Child to Work Day. Two brothers in feudal Japan are at odds on which one should have taken over leadership of the family when an even bigger party...
Cannes 2025 Review: DANDELION'S ODYSSEY Charts a Post-Human Cosmic Journey
Momoko Seto's animated feature debut blends time-lapse macro cinematography, ecological parable, and non-verbal performance to chart a post-human tale of survival and transformation.
ZOOTOPIA 2: First Teaser For Sequel to Animated Hit, in Cinemas This November
We feel that one of the surprise hits of 2016 in animation was Zootopia. It kind of came out of nowhere with not a whole lot of leadup to its release, not that usual grande fanfare that Disney typically lavished...
PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS: New Poster And Trailer Out Now, Anthology Arrives on Disney+ on June 6th
Playing some catchup this morning, with a new poster and trailer for Dan Trachtenberg's animated anthology, Predator: Killer of Killers, coming to Disney+ on June 6th. The anthology story follows three of the fiercest warriors in human history: a...
Cannes 2025 Review: DEATH DOES NOT EXIST, Existential Angst in Animated Feature
Directed by Félix Dufour-Laperriére, the Canadian-French film deals with a hefty subject in an unique and intriguing way.
BLOOD OF ZEUS S3 Review: The Underworld Strikes Back
Derek Phillips and Alfred Molina star in the superb animated series.
Now Streaming: iHOSTAGE, Unnerving Dutch Hostage Thriller
Also: 'Lazarus' and animated action, 'I, Jack Wright' and murderous money.
Rotterdam 2025 Review: MEMOIR OF A SNAIL Gets You, Pacing Be Damned
Back in 2009 we were treated to one of the best films ever made about autism, and it was, surprise surprise, an animated puppet feature. That was Mary and Max, directed by Adam Elliot, who had previously won an Academy...
Now Streaming: THE NIGHT AGENT S2, SATURDAY NIGHT, SAKAMOTO DAYS
Plus: 'SNL 50: Beyond Saturday Night' on Peacock TV, 'Babanba Banban Vampire' and 'Castlevania: Nocturne' on Netflix.
FLOW Review: The Brave Little Cat in a Brave New World
Gints Zilbalodis' animated film is Latvia's official selection for the 97th Academy Awards®️
Best International Feature.
GHOST CAT ANZU Review: Jaws Will Drop
To the sounds of cicadas during a Tokyo summer, 11-year-old Karin and her father Tetsuya leave the city by train to visit a countryside temple where the caretaker is the grandfather she has never met. It is a grand old...
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2024 Review: THE COLORS WITHIN Shines With Bright Hues
Back in 2016-2017, director Yamada Naoko shook up the anime industry with her high-school bully drama A Silent Voice. The film took an uncommonly candid view of life in school, with people often doing stupid things while still totally unaware...
PIECE BY PIECE Review: Colorful, Engaging, Surface-Deep Bio-Doc
As a music producer, singer-songwriter/rapper, and serial entrepreneur with a career spanning three decades and two centuries, Pharrell Williams's genre-redefining contributions to American pop culture can't be fully explored, evaluated, or even quantified in a standard ninety-minute documentary. The bio-doc...
Toronto 2024 Review: THE WILD ROBOT, Ground-breaking Animation Powers Familiar Family Tale
Dreamworks Animation presents Chris Sanders' adaptation of Peter Brown's popular children's book.
Hey UK and Ireland! Go See MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO in Cinemas Now!
Here in the States, we are very much enjoying your raucous Northern Irish film Kneecap, which our own Olga Artemyeva described as "bold, entertaining and boisterous - both as a cinematic piece and as a statement. It is also genuinely...
Anime Summer 2024: BYE BYE, EARTH, A Girl and Her Sword
The fantasy adventure series is now streaming on Crunchyroll.
Fantasia 2024 Review: GHOST CAT ANZU, Farts in the General Direction of Studio Ghibli
To the sounds of cicadas during a Tokyo summer, 11-year-old Karin and her father Tetsuya leave the city by train to visit a countryside temple where the caretaker is the grandfather she has never met. It is a grand old...
Anime Summer 2024: THE ELUSIVE SAMURAI, Reluctant Hero
The light-hearted historical action series is now streaming on Crunchyroll.