20th Century Fox, clearly inspired by Disney’s artistic (and financial) successes with The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Pocahontas, decided to produce an animated...
Sylvain Chomet’s earlier animation, The Triplets of Belleville, is a very peculiar film. It is an almost dialogue-free, absurd story built on caricature and exaggeration, often...
Monster House doesn’t surprise with an inventive form or complex narration. Yet the director manages to include several striking and memorable images
The enigmatic title of Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film is neither a joke nor an artistic provocation. According to Greek mythology, bugonia is the belief that bees...
In Good Home, violence has many faces. Physical, psychological, economic, sexual — one precedes the other, yet ultimately they walk hand in hand.
It’s very easy to spot the numerous stylistic references that Renaissance by Christian Volckman is built upon.
Poor Mowgli from The Jungle Book should be used to being abandoned by now. As a baby, swept away by a flood, he was lost in...
Kung Fu Panda (2008) opens with the dream of the main character, an awkward panda named Po. In his vision, he is a legendary warrior of...
Western pop culture has been blending with its Far Eastern counterpart for decades. They intertwine, clash, and feed off each other. Usually, these interactions occur naturally,...
Although The Aristocats (1970) is not the first animated film that comes to mind when one thinks of Walt Disney, it seems to be one of...