7 years ago
Anime 6
“A Letter to Momo” Aims Right For The Feels
Mom's out all day, and the house is haunted by goblins; guess that means we're learning valuable lessons about family and loss. That's A Letter to Momo in a nutshell, a bit of light lifting that wraps a morality tale up in all the ghostly accoutrements of supe...
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Should Superhero Films be Animated Instead?
With the latest trailer of Big Hero 6, another superhero movie has entered the fray, though this time it will be fully animated, as compared to ongoing trend of having these comic book creations filmed in live-action. But as more and more superhero story lines...
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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: “The Wind Rises”
"The wind is rising! ... We must try to live!"
~Paul Valéry
The Wind Rises may be classified as a "biopic," but it is less a document of a man than it is of a dream: beginning with its birth, progressing through its lifespan, and then finally waving a tearfu...
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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: “Tales From Earthsea”
As has already been documented on the Retrospective, I wasn't as big a fan of Isao Takahata's Pom Poko or Hiroyuki Morita's The Cat Returns as many others were; but neither of them were explicitly "bad" movies. While I wasn't particularly amused by Pom Poko's ...
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A Tale of Two Cities: Rebuilding a Metropolis
"Every epoch dreams its successor"
Jules Michelet
In the grand pantheon of sci-fi cinema, no other film is as boldly revolutionary or influential as Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece, Metropolis. Watching it today, the silent epic has lost none of its invention,...
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For Your Reconsideration: ‘Wolf Children’
Christopher Runyon shines a spotlight at the most underseen Japanese animated film of the year, Mamoru Hosada's 'Wolf Children.'
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