From Up on Poppy HillMovies DVD Release Date: September 3, 2013Theatrical Release Date: March 29, 2013Rating: PG for mild thematic elements and some incidental smoking imagesGenre: DramaRun Time: 91...
Movies from Film Forum, 09/26/02Spirited Away is being presented across the U.S. by Walt Disney Studios, but it is not in any way a typical Disney film. Parents should be cautioned that while it looks...
What all this lavish praise doesn’t explain is why, precisely, the hand-drawn aesthetic matters for the particular story being told
Sunao Katabuchi’s “In This Corner of the World” centers on Suzo Urano, a teenage girl growing up in the small Japanese town of Kure in 1933.
When Suzo is married to a soldier...
Paradise Lost The Little Mermaid opened nationally in theaters 25 years ago Monday (Nov. 17). It proved to be a pretty significant day in the annals of animated filmdom, marking not just the beginning...
DramaComedyRomanceWarAnimation We hope this review was both interesting and useful. Please share it with family and friends who would benefit from it as well.Movie ReviewHe simply wanted to fly. As a...
DramaSci-Fi/FantasyKidsAnimation We hope this review was both interesting and useful. Please share it with family and friends who would benefit from it as well.Movie ReviewFrom Arrietty's point of view,...
Title of the film is taken from the poetic line; “Le vent se lève!… Il faut tenter de vivre! (“The wind rises!… We must try to live!”).” — Paul Valéry,...
Hiyao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away is one among several of his films that has won a space in westerners’ hearts. Everyone outside of the Radical Traditionalist community whom...
PonyoMovies DVD Release Date: December 8, 2009 Theatrical Release Date: August 14, 2009Rating: GGenre: Animation, Fantasy, Kids/FamilyRun Time: 100 min. Director: ...
Secret World of ArriettyMovies DVD Release Date: May 22, 2012Theatrical Release Date: February 17, 2012Rating: GGenre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Animated, AdaptationRun Time: 80 min.Director: Hiromasa...
The Little MermaidLion KingAladdinToy StoryAvonleaDream Big PrincessDream BigBad MomsLittle MermaidBraveFrozenMoanaLion GuardRogue One I was a Disney child, raised on it all. I fell hook, line, and...
Lifestyle Editor's Note: Check out the previous installments in Chris's series exploring Disney history: "10 Disney Cartoons from the 1930s that Reflect the Can-Do Spirit That Survived the Great Depression,"...
Lifestyle Oscar winning songwriters and Disney Legends Richard Sherman and Alan Menken performed together at a once in a lifetime evening of music at the D23 Expo in Anaheim on August 10. The D23...
Film of the Week: 'Spirited Away'
Video of the Week: 'Spirited Away'
Disney is now making use of the same trick to sell its movies that the Pink SF crowd has been pulling for decades, in this case, selling princess...
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I feel like the skinhead who went to see Cats because he’d heard that T. S. Eliot was a fascist.
Japanese cartoons are very popular in our circles. They have even been reviewed...
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[1] On February 28, 2018, Taylor Lorenz of The Daily Beast revealed the identity of Pamela Geller’s children [2]. And this is troubling for all of us. It certainly was troubling...
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