Over time, it has become abundantly clear that if there is a product that could even feasibly become profitable as a film, Hollywood will spare no expense in finding a way to adapt it. Not only has the industry shown interest in taking works from every conceivable medium such as literature, theatre, music and television,…
Category: Animation
Flow (2024)
As a species, humans are so focused on ensuring our own survival, that we overlook all those that surround us, which makes us a truly selfish homogenous entity that is likely going to be responsible for our demise, which is a thought many inclined towards this growing sense of widespread nihilism seem to have, and which…
The Wild Robot (2024)
A lesson that we all tend to learn quite late in life is that friends are not always meant to be with us forever – those childhood companions were our closest confidantes and with whom we shared some of our most personal moments during our formative years tend to disappear as we grow older, usually…
The Cat Returns (2002)
Over the course of their existence, Studio Ghibli has primarily been defined by two instantly recognizable names – Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, the two masters who laid the cornerstone for the studio and worked laboriously to define it over a few decades. However, while we can appreciate and adore their work, it is sometimes…
Rango (2011)
For just about as long as films have been made, westerns have existed – there are some that argue this is the most important artistic important America has ever produced, with the impact of the genre on the history of filmmaking being impossible to overstate. Despite this, it’s still a genre that tends to be…
Inside Out 2 (2024)
Sequels tend to be quite peculiar – Hollywood is driven by the idea that the only logical response to a major success is to follow it up with something that attempts to recapture the magic of the original, and while there are some examples of sequels being equal to those that came before it (as…
The Garfield Movie (2024)
By this point in our cinematic culture, an existing property that has not been wrangled into becoming yet another entry into the growing canon of reboots, remakes and revivals can consider itself lucky, since it seems like just about every original piece of media has been subjected to the incessant need to reinterpret classic works….
Migration (2023)
As time has progressed, we have become slightly cynical of the dominance the two major animation studios have over the industry – The Walt Disney Company and Pixar Animation are the gold standard, but they have become increasingly lazy, producing works that aren’t nearly as ambitious or wholeheartedly brilliant as the ones made at their…
Orion and the Dark (2024)
We all know that familiar feeling – the sun sets, and we make our way to bed. We struggle to fall asleep, wondering what is lurking in the shadows that surround us. The fear of the dark is one of the most common childhood experiences, and the anxiety that comes with the idea that something…
The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)
Every era has to come to an end, regardless of its cultural or historical impact, since this is the very nature of viewing the past as a series of extended moments, which can be compartmentalized in various ways based on the influence it had on the future. Starting sometime in the late 1980s, the Walt…
The Postmodern Pelican 