Wildwood is an extremely mystifying experience. For most of the runtime, Laika Studios kept me in a constant state of questioning. Not in terms of plot or character beats, but in how exactly any of this is possible. As a studio, Laika has always been in a league of its own, creating exceptional visual masterworks in stop-motion animation. However, their 2026
Read MoreCyberpunk: Edgerunners is a standout anime that launched on Netflix in 2022. It was a collaboration between CD Projekt Red, the developer of the video game Cyberpunk 2077, and Studio Trigger, one of the best anime studios. Slick animation, mature stories, gruesome deaths, and, by all accounts, a wonderful take on Night City. Four years later, Studio Trigger and CD Project
Read MoreThe Simpsons Halloween specials were yearly traditions for me growing up. In syndication, there were always marathons of the collected episodes up to that point. I’ve probably watched the horror shorts in the first eight The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror episodes more than individual episodes. Even though I am a waning fan of The Simpsons, having stopped around season fifteen, I
Read MoreAvatar: Seven Havens tells the story of Pavi, a young Earthbender who discovers that she is the next Avatar in a world that no longer trusts people who have this title or associate with it. The first three episodes introduce us to this now destroyed and unbalanced world. In it we see a new mythology, an introduction to new characters, and
Read MoreIn collaboration between DreamWorks Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks, here comes Joel Crawford and Januel P. Mercado‘s Forgotten Island. Taking place in the 1990s/early 2000s Philippines, the fantasy comedy film follows two young women about to be separated by a fork in the road. Raissa Molina (voiced by Liza Soberano) is accepted into a university in California, but it comes at
Read MoreIf you weren’t satiated with Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (a masterpiece), Aardman has got the big-screen cure for you with Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom. This lighthearted, enjoyable family fare is highly stimulating for young viewers and smart enough for grown-ups. It’s the kind of sophisticated entertainment only a stop-motion-driven animated studio can pull off
Read MoreVirtually everyone knows of the tumultuous hurdles Coyote vs. Acme has jumped across to get to this point. A timeline of being a straight-to-HBO Max release, to a tax write-off to save money by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, to possibly being saved through purchase by another studio thanks to online outcry, to being in limbo again. Then the film
Read MoreRick & Morty spinoff President Curtis shifts focus towards the White House and the impossible burden of ruling a country and a planet where alien invasions, interdimensional travels, ancient monsters, and reality-bending catastrophes have become almost another Monday. President Curtis certainly shares plenty of things in common with its predecessor. The same style of jokes, bizarre science-fiction events, chaotic absurdity, and
Read MoreFuturama simply refuses to leave our lives, and that’s very good news. As a fan of this show, with every new season, I feel like I’m still visiting a place that somehow continues existing regardless of how much the world around it changes. With Futurama season 14, as with previous seasons, Fry is still looking at the future through the eyes
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