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August 30, 2024

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024: Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust, by Simon Read

Adapted from his short film of the same name, Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust, marks the feature debut oftalented graphic artist Ishan Shukla. While there is a lot to admire in its innovatve craft and graphic design – it is...

home video hovel / movies / reviews / rudie obias

December 20, 2023

Home Video Hovel: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, by Rudie Obias

Although there are many versions of the Pinocchio story, from the classic Walt Disney animated feature to Roberto Benigni’s 2002 film, there has to be a good reason to make a new one — especially since it’s a story that most...

cast of cthulhu / james mccormick / jim rohner / movies / podcast

October 19, 2023

The Cast of Cthulhu: Interview with Sam Liu

Episode 80 – Interview with Sam Liu We’re knee deep in Spooky Season, so it’s about time that we stopped tricking everyone and delivering on the treats. We loved Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham so much that we just had...

cast of cthulhu / james mccormick / jim rohner / movies / podcast

October 10, 2023

The Cast of Cthulhu: Lily C.A.T.

Episode 79 – Lily C.A.T. “The expendable crew of a corporate space vessel must stop a murderous shape-shifting alien organism that somehow got on board.”“The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating an unknown transmission.” One...

monday movie / movies / scott nye

September 18, 2023

Monday Movie: Heavy Traffic, by Scott Nye

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Heavy Traffic originally ran as a home video review. As more traditional, family-friendly cartoons have been reevaluated over the years, and the Looney Tunes shorts, Disney features, and...

cast of cthulhu / james mccormick / jim rohner / movies / podcast

September 14, 2023

The Cast of Cthulhu: Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham

Episode 78 – Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham Who better to be the logical, unsentimental protagonist of a Lovecraftian journey into discovery than the world’s greatest detective? This animated adaptation of Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham,...

alexander miller / movies / trailer project / video

August 9, 2023

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #43: Toyoo Ashida’s Vampire Hunter D (1985)

Going down the nostalgia road with Vampire Hunter D, concentrating on the “movies that made me” kinda thing I guess, there’s more on the way, enjoy! The Trailer Project is devoted to the moving image, the trailers that promote the...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 29, 2023

Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken: Shapeless, Watery, by David Bax

At a recent animation festival, Guillermo del Toro (who directed last year’s gorgeous rendition of Pinnochio) railed against modern mainstream feature animation and how its characters are all reduced to “emoji-style behavior.” He went on from there but that simple...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 4, 2023

The Super Mario Bros. Movie: It’s 92 Minutes Long Plus Trailers, by David Bax

So, the good thing, at least from where I’m sitting, about Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic and Pierre Leduc‘s The Super Mario Bros. Movie is that it doesn’t matter if you show up not really knowing what any of this crap...

alexander miller / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 11, 2022

Inu-Oh: Rock of Ages, by Alexander Miller

Amid the glut of Miyazaki wannabes, soapy teen melodramas and the other various fare being peddled out, we must be grateful for the likes of Mamoru Hosoda and Masaaki Yuasa (whose new film, Inu-Oh, is out now), the two foremost...

Tagged: animation

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024: Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust, by Simon Read

Home Video Hovel: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, by Rudie Obias

The Cast of Cthulhu: Interview with Sam Liu

The Cast of Cthulhu: Lily C.A.T.

Monday Movie: Heavy Traffic, by Scott Nye

The Cast of Cthulhu: Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #43: Toyoo Ashida’s Vampire Hunter D (1985)

Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken: Shapeless, Watery, by David Bax

The Super Mario Bros. Movie: It’s 92 Minutes Long Plus Trailers, by David Bax

Inu-Oh: Rock of Ages, by Alexander Miller

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