If there is one thing that animation powerhouse Pixar is justifiably famous for, it’s the ability to invest its animated features with a metric ton of meaning and emotion in every frame. Films like the Toy Story franchise, UP, Inside Out are so well-loved and highly-regarded not just because they Continue Reading
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COVID-19 retro movie festival: The Croods #MovieReview
With COVID-19 cutting a swathe through just about everything worldwide, it’s no surprise that cinema is being as affected as anything else. In just one day, one of my favourite cinema chains temporarily closed, the Sydney Film Festival was cancelled, the French Film Festival was postponed and my other favourite Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The raw, aching longing of Raymonde or the Vertical Escape
SNAPSHOT“Raymonde is really fed up with peas, aphids, dirty panties and her kitchen garden to dig. After all, she would prefer sex, and love, and the immensity of the sky…” Raymonde or the Vertical Escape (also titled Raymonde ou l’évasion verticale originally in French) is a stop-motion animated short film Continue Reading
Wanna get away from your family? Come join The Willoughbys
SNAPSHOTConvinced they’d be better off raising themselves, the Willoughby children (Tim, Jane, Barnaby A & B) hatch a sneaky plan to send their selfish parents on vacation. The siblings then embark on their own high-flying adventure to find the true meaning of family. The Willoughbys is directed by animation filmmaker Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: It’s not a yolk – cute cartoon characters end up on eggs
SNAPSHOTJapanese mom Etoni Mama turns fried and boiled eggs into adorable cartoon characters. Etoni Mama is also a culinary artist in her own right and a published author. The title is “Saiji-ki Foods For Children” This book is full of recipes that offer a fun and delicious take on seasonal Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The anatomically correct fun of “Cartoon Fossils”
You’ve no doubt heard people shopping for a home, or the real estate agents tryiong to sell them one, say that a house has “got good bones”. It’s the ultimate compliment and means that while house may look ill-kempt or unloved, that it’s basically got the makings of sound and Continue Reading
Thank you for being a Super Golden Friend: What happens when superheroes retire and move to Miami
SNAPSHOTWhat happens when four superfriends retire and move to Miami to share a ranch style home? This is a pilot I’d like to propose to Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, if I knew anyone who worked there, and if all the licenses could be obtained. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) It appears Continue Reading
Uh-oh robots! Is it really time to get Connected?
SNAPSHOTWhen Katie Mitchell (voiced by Abbi Jacobson), a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans to meet ‘her people’ at college are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick (voiced by Danny McBride) determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together and bond Continue Reading
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? More episodes now amusingly haunting Boomerang
If you’re keeping count, and why wouldn’t you be, you would be well are that Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? is the thirteenth iteration of the beloved character and his attendant gang of Shaggy, Velma, Daphne and Fred since the franchise launched way back in 1969. While my heart will always Continue Reading
What was life like for Bo Peep before Toy Story 4? Lamp Life fills us in
When we come across someone we haven’t seen in a while, we intellectually know they’ve likely done a LOT of living since we saw them; it stands to reason unless they spent the intervening period between meet-ups sitting in a dark room humming manically to themselves. (It’s not as much Continue Reading