One of the many short films that SXSW are showcasing is the French animated student film Au 8ème Jour, or On The 8th Day, an eight-minute short depicting the creation and sudden collapse of a planet we can only assume to be similar to Earth. Many filmmakers in recent years […]
Animation
Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) A Gorgeously Animated And Engaging New Take On A Classic (Review)
The Peasants / Chlopi (2023): An Innovative Combination of Historical Epic and Living Painting
Following on from the success of Loving Vincent, which utilised an innovative technique of recreating frames of recorded live-action scenes as oil paintings, DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman have found a new way of exploring their unique aesthetic. The Peasants is an adaptation of Wladyslaw Reymont’s novel of the same […]
Minore & The Weird Kidz (Frightfest 2023) (Review)
Marcel the Shell with the Shoes on (2021) A heartfelt gem in the sometimes brutal world of A24 (Review)
Bone: When Adaptations Fail… When is it Okay to “Just Say No”?
Joe Millar from the Geek Show’s animation podcast ‘Dreaming Machine’ writes about the under-appreciated art of leaving things alone… Over the past year, I have read the entirety (over 1300 pages!) of Jeff Smith’s brilliant comic book series ‘Bone’ with my son. We both found the comic absolutely enthralling. The story has […]
Wendell & Wild (2022) Exploration of dark & morbid concepts in suitably strange and morbid stop-motion (Review)
Mad God (2022): A Beautiful Collage of Sickening Horror (Blu-Ray Review)
Son of the White Mare (1981): a one-man mission to demonstrate animation’s possibilities (Review)
If Eureka Masters of Cinema’s new Blu-Ray release just contained Marcell Jankovics’s 1981 film Son of the White Mare, that would be enough for an unqualified recommendation. Revered in his native Hungary after making the nation’s first animated feature – of which more later – Jankovics’s work has not always […]
The Spine of Night (2021) A shining example of what can be done with a singular vision (Blu-Ray Review)
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it”. John Dalberg-Acton Never has this quote been more applicable than to The […]