With a near 100% positive audience and critic response on Rotten Tomatoes, it’s no wonder that Studio Ghibli’s “Spirited Away” has made its name as one of the best anime films out there. Studio Ghibli […]
Frozen 2 Takes Us Into the Unknown.
When it was announced that 2013’s Frozen was getting a sequel, the main question on everyone’s lips was ‘how are they going to follow the first film?’. It was a cultural phenomenon, it earned over […]
Streaming Takes Studio Ghibli: A Blunder or an Honour?
Emma Rivers discusses the recent announcement that the entire catalogue of works from Studio Ghibli will be available to stream through HBOMax from April 2020. Studio Ghibli, the award-winning Japanese animation film studio founded by […]
Tehran Taboo is a confrontational exposé of the treatment of women in Iran
Iranian social commentary-driven animated films are, unarguably, a niche sector of the film industry. However, director Ali Soozandeh uses this to his advantage to expose the double standards that exist in Iran surrounding sex, which […]
Smallfoot Review
Set in the Himalayas, Smallfoot is an animated musical adventure film directed by Karey Kirkpatrick. The film follows a Yeti named Migo, who become friends with a wildlife documentary filmmaker. The rest of the village […]
Is a live-action series of ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ necessary?
Netflix recently announced that they will be working in partnership with Nickelodeon to adapt the universally-acclaimed animated show, ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’, into a live-action series. ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ takes place in a fictional fantasy […]
Is Disney creating a LGBTQ princess?
Disney. This word is practically synonymous with your-entire-childhood. So, what about Disney princesses? Who springs to mind? Maybe it’s Snow White, the first Disney princess to be in a full-feature animated film; or Sleeping Beauty, […]
F is for not quite Feeling it
What is there to say about F is for Family, the new animated Netflix original comedy created by Bill Burr? That’s a hard question. The year is 1973. Baggage handler Frank Murphy is a typical […]
TV | The Simpsons
The year was 1989 and possibly the most famous family in the world was about to make their debut on the Tracey Ulman Show. Within three years the show was pulling in 13.4 million viewers […]