Animated

Root and a Boot: a review of The Wild Robot

Directed & Screenplay by Chris Sanders Based on The Wild Robot by Peter Brown Produced by Jeff Hermann Starring Lupita Nyong’o Pedro Pascal Kit Connor Bill Nighy Stephanie Hsu Mark Hamill Catherine O’Hara Matt Berry Ving Rhames Cinematography Chris Stover Edited by Mary Blee Music by Kris Bowers Production company DreamWorks Animation Distributed by Universal …

Sea for the Tiller Cat: a review of Flow

Flow Directed by Gints Zilbalodis Written by Gints Zilbalodis & Matīss Kaža Produced by Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža, Ron Dyens, Gregory Zalcman Music by Gints Zilbalodis & Rihards Zalupe Production companies Dream Well Studio, Sacrebleu Productions, Take Five Distributed by UFO Distribution (France) Running time 85 minutes Countries Belgium, France, Latvia Budget €3.5 million Maybe …

I Sing the Song Diegetic: a review of Sing, Sing2, Thriller

Written and directed by Garth Jennings Produced by Chris Meledandri & Janet Healy The animation was created entirely in France by Illumination Mac Guff.[ Starring Matthew McConaughey Reese Witherspoon Seth MacFarlane Scarlett Johansson John C. Reilly Taron Egerton Tori Kelly Cinematography Guylo Homsy Edited by Gregory Perler Music by Joby Talbot Production companies Universal Pictures …

Shaky premise, solid grounding; a review of Suzume

Kanji すずめの戸締まり Literal meaning Suzume’s Locking Up Revised Hepburn Suzume no Tojimari Directed by Makoto Shinkai Written by Makoto Shinkai Produced by Kōichirō Itō, Kinue Itō, Wakana Okamura Starring Character Cast Japanese English Suzume Iwato (岩戸 鈴芽, Iwato Suzume) Nanoka Hara Nichole Sakura Souta Munakata (宗像 草太, Munakata Sōta) Hokuto Matsumura Josh Keaton Tamaki Iwato …

A Year in review: a review of 2023

A Year in review: a review of 2023 2023 was another great year for television. Among other great shows we watched (and I reviewed) this year were Gen V (outrageous spin-off of The Boys), One Piece (excellent live-action version of a rather dumb anime), a new BBC remake of War of the Worlds, an engaging …

A Lizard Blizzard: a review of Leo

Directed by Robert Marianetti, Robert Smigel, David Wachtenheim Written by Robert Smigel, Adam Sandler, Paul Sado Produced by Adam Sandler, Mireille Soria Starring Adam Sandler Bill Burr Cecily Strong Jason Alexander Sadie Sandler Sunny Sandler Rob Schneider Jo Koy Allison Strong Jackie Sandler Heidi Gardner Robert Smigel Nick Swardson Edited by Patrick Voetberg, Joseph Titone …

“How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You’re Not Anywhere at All?”*: a review of Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert Produced by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Mike Larocca, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang, Peter Tam Lee Starring Michelle Yeoh Stephanie Hsu Ke Huy Quan Jenny Slate Harry Shum Jr. James Hong Jamie Lee Curtis Cinematography Larkin Seiple Edited by Paul …

A devil of a wild time: a review of Wendell and Wild

Directed by Henry Selick Screenplay by Henry Selick & Jordan Peele Based on Wendell & Wild (unpublished) by Henry Selick & Clay McLeod Chapman Produced by Henry Selick, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld Voice cast Keegan-Michael Key as Wendell Jordan Peele as Wild Lyric Ross as Katherine “Kat” Koniqua Elliot Serelle Strickland as Young …

Pussy Footing around: A review of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Directed by Joel CrawfordScreenplay by Paul Fisher & Tommy SwerdlowStory by Tommy Swerdlow & Tom WheelerBased on Puss in Boots by Giovanni Francesco StraparolaProduced by Mark SwiftEdited by James RyanMusic by Heitor PereiraProduction company DreamWorks AnimationDistributed by Universal Pictures Voices:Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots, a swashbuckling cat fugitive …