animation
Exploring the role of animated sequels such as Toy Story and Trolls as either worthwhile tales or money making schemes.
While Lego Batman is essentially a spoof movie, it’s especially impressive that this film was able to keep us laughing from beginning to end.
1995’s Ghost in the Shell creates a prescient vision of a connected world that functions as both as character study & social commentary.
We sat down with Kaci Smith to talk about her animation work on Kubo and the Two Strings, working as a rotoscope and digital paint artist.
With varying styles and lengths, the 2017 Animated Short Films offer innovation, emotion, and satisfying storytelling.
Sing is a film which is trying to look on the more positive side of these singing competitions; it is about hope and a real desire to change.
Your Name is the latest anime from Makoto Shinkai; grounded in a contemporary setting, it is as endearing as it is gorgeous to watch unfold.
Monster Trucks is a live action/computer animated film that is made by a regular animation director; unfortunately, it does not go over well.
Though with no dialogue, The Red Turtle is a profoundly moving work of art, culminating in one of the better animations in recent memory.
Miss Hokusai is based on the Japanese manga, and through a series of montages, it tells a powerful story of the struggles of an artist.
With 2016 ending in cinematic glory, we look back at the widespread success of family films and how they are vital to the cinematic landscape
Disney’s latest film, Moana is sure to please crowds, but it plays it safe by recycling a story that has been told to exhaustion.
Trolls is aimed as squarely at parents as it is the kids, who likely won’t be as familiar with the terrifically tressed toy trolls as they were say, Angry Birds. Probably not a problem. A comeback seems likely.
Color is an animated short film about a creature that looks a lot like a lima bean with legs. This little creature has a beautiful yellow color that it tries to hide to fit in with the creatures and the buildings in the town it lives in.
Kubo and the Two Strings is a genuine masterpiece. The word “masterpiece” might be used carelessly and far too often these days when discussing contemporary movies. At the least, Kubo has fulfilled the conventional definition of “masterpiece” no matter how semantically satiated the word has become, if not entirely forging a new meaning altogether.