If Inside Out was a great portrayal of the hidden mind of a child, Inside Out 2 surpasses it with the far more intricate and complex machinations of the mind of a female adolescent. It’s easy for an adult to dismiss the concerns of childhood as shallow and even trivial, but the tsunami of emotion and confusion that comes with early teenage years is something even adults shy away from.
With the two part Watchmen movie, there would seem to be little to upset Moore. The dialogue, line for line, transitioned wholly intact from graphic novel to animation, right down to Rorschach’s use of “Herm.” It faithfully recreated every scene from the graphic novel. Dave Gibbons, who drew every panel of the original, oversaw the animation art from start to finish. The only element missing was Moore’s often-brilliant use of segues from one scene to another. And I’m not sure that could translate well.
I didn’t do a lot of reviews this past year. Fifty three in all. It was an election year and I write mostly about politics, and I have a backlog going into 2025. Also, if I think something is rubbish, I’m very unlikely to review it. And there was a fair old bit of rubbish that came out last year.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
Directed by Nick Bruno & Troy Quane Screenplay by Robert L. Baird & Lloyd Taylor Story by Robert L. Baird, Lloyd Taylor, Pamela Ribon, Marc Haimes, Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, Keith Bunin Based on Nimona by ND Stevenson Produced by Karen Ryan, Julie Zackary, Roy Lee Starring Chloë Grace Moretz as Nimona, a shapeshifter who …