SNAPSHOTZootopia+ heads back to the fast-paced mammal metropolis of Zootopia in a short-form streaming series that dives deeper into the lives of some of the Oscar-winning movie’s most intriguing residents, including: Fru Fru, the fashion-forward arctic shrew; ZPD dispatcher Clawhauser, the sweet-toothed cheetah; and Flash, the smiling sloth who’s full Continue Reading
Short film
The short and the short of it: The magically romantic intervention of The Wish Granter
SNAPSHOTSet in a world where wishes are granted by mythical beings that live under fountains, an apathetic wish granter is forced to go above ground to grant a wish of love. (courtesy CGMeetup/YouTube) We are well schooled now in the idea that life comes with a plethora of multiverse moments. Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The hauntingly uplifting renewal of Castaway
SNAPSHOTA lonely girl is living in the sky, far from the world on the ground that frightens her. One day, an unexpected visit will turn her routine upside down and make her fall from her cloud. (courtesy Filmaffinity) There are a lot of truly remarkable short films out there that Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The transformative power of the beautifully unexpected in Carrier
SNAPSHOTIt’s business as usual for a deep space pilot, until a strange anomaly hits her ship and knocks it off course. Once she opens the viewport, she starts hearing strange noises that show up as something large on the scanner … (courtesy YouTube) Even the most wondrously-inclined of us can Continue Reading
Inspired by an epic true love story: Short film Blush coming soon to Apple TV+
SNAPSHOTWhen a horticulturist-astronaut gets stranded on a dwarf planet, his chances of survival are limited. Knowing that he will not survive this trip, he plants mango trees on the planet when another spaceship crashes on the planet. An ethereal creature named Blush, who has wavy bright pink hair, helps him Continue Reading
#ChristmasInJuly festive animation review: Sonic Christmas Blast
Not being a game player of any kind, this reviewer’s only real contact with Sonic the Hedgehog had been the great pop culture soup in which many of us happily swim these days thanks to the internet where you can be exposed to a huge degree by characters and properties Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The Goat That Ate Time finds there are never enough hours in the day
SNAPSHOTHigh on a hill and somewhat far away, there once lived a goat and he was very hungry. …Henry was well aware of time you see, and frankly that there was never enough of it in his mind to eat all the things he planned and hoped and dreamed of Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Hell Creek travels to the distant past, dinosaurs hot on the trail
SNAPSHOTHell Creek is a sci-fi horror dinosaur short film that takes place in the Jurassic period. It acts as a prologue to a feature length story that’s centered around the Cretaceous and Hell Creek, Montana. (courtesy YouTube (c) Danny Donahue) We all know intellectually that time travel can be dangerous Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The haunting exile of Migrants
SNAPSHOT“Two polar bears are driven into exile due to global warming. They will encounter brown bears along their journey, with whom they will try to cohabitate.” Migrants is a project made by students studying at PÔLE – a 2D & 3D animation cinema school based in Roubaix, France. It’s directed Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Glory in the The Legend Of The Crabe Phare
SNAPSHOTThe Crabe Phare is a colossal crustacean who lives at the bottom of the ocean. When this mammoth creature rises from the deep, he doesn’t have destruction on his mind. Instead, he wants to collect and preserve ships to add to his underwater collection. The huge creature is not the Continue Reading