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…
Well, Halloween’s come and gone, which means it is, yet again, Oscar season. If we’re counting The Martian, then this year’s Oscar season is already off to a much better start than last year’s notably terrible one. I can’t say I have particularly high hopes for most of the likely contenders yet to hit theaters,…
For this week’s article, I’ve decided to hop on the Octoberween bandwagon and write about some spooky animated films. And what better way to celebrate this time of the year than to write about a couple of films with the “Tim Burton” label on them? The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) has the lovely benefit of…
Production studios are weird, and I gather involve a good deal of politics. Film festivals are also weird, and also heavily political. Things like the Cannes Film Festival are nice for indie filmmakers (the high-profile and non-indie indie filmmakers like the Coens and Wes Anderson) to screen their films and get picked up by major…
