Tag Archives: Animation
The Boy and the Heron (2023) Review
‘Steamboat Willie’ at 95 – Review
Review in Brief: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
They only went and EMPIRE STRIKES BACK-ed SPIDER-VERSE. If the first film was “anyone can be Spider-Man” then this is “can (and should) Spider-Man save everyone?”. 2 years after several very different Spider-people crossed over to the world of Miles … Continue reading
Review in Brief: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022/23)
MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON is an endearingly strange and melancholic live-action/stop-motion animation hybrid mockumentary. An anthropomorphic shell called Marcel (Jenny Slate) lives with his grandma Connie (Isabella Rossellini) in the corner of an Air BnB and wonders where … Continue reading
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) Review
‘Aladdin’ at 30 – Review
Review in Brief: The Sea Beast
If you had to deliver THE SEA BEAST as an elevator pitch, it would be PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN meets HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, though this beautiful animation on Netflix is easily as fun as the former and as … Continue reading