(The following trailer is in Japanese. You can turn on English subtitles in the settings) Sometimes important issues, such as bullying and discrimination against the disabled, are not talked about enough. However, the manga series and subsequent anime movie A Silent Voice put these problems front and center, and addressed them in a powerful way.…
Saturday Morning Cartoons is a column that I generally update bi-weekly on Saturday mornings. This schedule, which I’ve held for the year and a half that I’ve been on this review site, was derailed about a month ago when a major leak in my apartment caused me to have to move and subsequently lose internet…
Stop motion animation has so much potential in its use for horror, as Tim Burton and Laika have shown us their films. Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, puts its stop motion animation to a different use, for a more comedic and quirky, though nonetheless Halloween-y film. This is the second time that Wallace…
Welcome to Octoberween, everybody! For this month we will be looking at films of the horror genre, or have a general air of “Halloween” to them. Let’s start it off with a mind-warping psychological thriller from Japan, known as “Perfect Blue.” Satoshi Kon is one of my favorite filmmakers, and his films tend…
Like the title says, I just watched the absolute worst animated movie of all time. I can’t think of anything worse in terms of writing or animation. This terrible movie involves food-related characters in a supermarket, the battle for their existence, and an inappropriate amount of sexual innuendos. Oh, you think I’m talking about the…
Don’t get too excited about this trailer. This is as good as the movie gets. Think of a movie about pets. What is the first story idea you can think of? If it involves pets getting lost and then having to find their way back to their beloved owner, then you probably put in about…
Ok. I have to be honest. I tend to have a hard time defending this film. Well, these films. Since in this article I will be talking about the Kung Fu Panda film series as a whole. The movies get pretty decent ratings on sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, and I know that they…
Rooster Illusion 