For mental health awareness week, Calum Cooper discusses RWBY: Volume 9 and the arc of self-acceptance that defines the central character of Ruby Rose. Continue reading Mental Health Awareness Week: How RWBY Volume 9 Explores Trauma and Self-Acceptance
Film critic Calum Cooper reviews Suzume, the newest anime fantasy epic from Makoto Shinkai, director of such films as Your Name. Continue reading Suzume (2022) – Review
Year: 2023 Runtime: 99 minutes Director: Wendy Rogers Writers: Martin Hynes (Screenplay by), Kate DiCamillo (based on the book by) Actors: Noah Jupe, Brian Tyree Henry, Mandy Patinkin, Natasia Demetriou, Benedict Wong By Tom Moore The directorial debut of Wendy Rogers, “The Magician’s Elephant,” is a quaint, animated tale about the seemingly impossible being possible that’s easy to like even if it suffers from some … Continue reading Film Review: The Magician’s Elephant
Calum Cooper writes a retrospective review to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue, discussing how it has only become scarier with time. Continue reading Retrospective: Perfect Blue (1997)
Calum Cooper writes a deep dive exploration into RWBY’s themes of unified feminism and the toxic masculinity found within lone hero archetypes. Continue reading RWBY: Unified Feminism and the Toxic Masculinity of Lone Heroes
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” transforms a familiar tale into a passionate fable of compassion and tenderness that’s visually beautiful, relatable, and bittersweet. Continue reading Review: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
Film critic Calum Cooper reviews the magically dark and enchanting stop motion feature “Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio” Continue reading LFF2022 Review: Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
Film critic Calum Cooper reviews the latest animated wonder from Cartoon Saloon, the exciting and throwback fantasy of My Father’s Dragon. Continue reading LFF2022 Review: My Father’s Dragon
Year: 2022 Runtime: 11 minutes Director: Bára Anna Stejskalová By Caelyn O’Reilly “Love is Just a Death Away” is a beauteous little film about finding love in unlikely places. It’s also about corpse-puppeteering brain parasites. Stop-motion animation seems to always have a fascination with the macabre, the misunderstood, and societal outcasts. From Burton-produced features like “The Nightmare Before Christmas”(1993) and “Frankenweenie”(2012) to the entire filmography … Continue reading Femme Filmmakers Festival 7 Review: Love is Just a Death Away
By Joan Amenn Over twenty years ago, Disney did something extraordinarily out of character. They allowed animators to create a world more like a live action film than had permitted previously. No doubt it helped that the directors of “Atlantis: The Lost Empire” (2001) were Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale, who had collaborated on the blockbuster hit “Beauty and the Beast” in 1991. However, the … Continue reading The Women of the Watery World of Atlantis: The Lost Empire
In Their Own League 