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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024
Very solid! I wish the discussion around this movie wasn't so focused on WB corporate fuckery, the movie itself is quite an achievement in sustaining this level of intense cartoony animation, and these characters on their own, for a whole movie. It even manages to make Petunia Pig a fun character in her own right. I have to admit I got a little tired of bubblegum and alien stuff by the end... and I did miss seeing a few more…
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Mars Express 2023
Had a great time with this, easily one of the best new animated movies I've seen in the last few years.
I feel like the marketing made it look very serious and joyless, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much fun quirky humanity is in it. The animation is a bit more restrained than I'd like, but the drawings themselves are masterful and the direction is great. I'm not a big sci-fi guy but the organic world-building was some…
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Whisper of the Heart 1995
One of my favourite movies ever. Saw it on the big screen for the second time at Hot Docs Cinema tonight. Incredibly rich film with so much to say about life. It gets me tearing up and excited to be alive every time I watch it.
Ghibli's trademark lush production values and attention to detail, usually used to create vivid fantasy worlds, are applied here to a modern urban landcape and the result is one of the best depictions of…
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Mind Game 2004
[I'm in the middle of translating the original Mind Game manga into English cause nobody else has done it yet and I want to read it. I rewatched the movie up to the point I'd translated to compare it. This is a reposted article I wrote for Cartoon Brew back in 2020]
I first saw Mind Game in 2011 after reading Ben Ettinger rave about it on his excellent blog Anipages. For some reason the film’s title was off-putting to…
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