To be considered a great animated film, one of the best, is to cause the audiences to believe that this particular story couldn’t have been told in any other medium; that, if it had been live action it would have…
David’s Movie Review: The Wind Rises
Rating: 9.5 out of 10 I had been eagerly awaiting the new film, The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) from the Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, since its trailer hit the internet last fall. I have always been a fan of Miyazaki’s brilliant…
Top Ten: The Best of Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki is a genius filmmaker. He has continually created masterpieces, infusing the cinematic world of animation with a vigor and magical realism that it hadn’t seen before his touch. His animation is intricate and worked on with painstaking detail,…
TV Review: The Legend of Korra – “Rebel Spirit” & “The Southern Lights”
To the fans’ enthusiasm, season two of The Legend of Korra has arrived and rather than rest on its laurels and fan approval, it instead bursts out of the gateway with a bang, thrusting us full throttle into the adventure…
Top 10 Things We Can Learn from Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki
By: Luke Amargo Writers? Animators? Filmmakers? Human beings? It’s hard not to be envious of Hayao Miyazaki’s legacy (and he’s not even close to being dead). Through and through, he is an icon to nearly every facet of creative medium;…
Visual Effects Pioneer, Ray Harryhausen, Dies at Age 92
Before we start, I’d like to ask that you watch this scene from ‘Clash of the Titan’ first. The 1981 film ‘Clash of the Titans,’ was one of those movies that I saw as a child that, for some strange…