An Uneven Slice-of-Life That's Still Worth A Bite
DIRECTED BY: AYUMU WATANABE/2021
The latest feature from Ayumu Watanabe and Studio 4°C, following ...
A Sugary And Sincere Anime Ode to Filmmaking
DIRECTED BY: TAKAYUKI HIRAO/2021
Films about filmmaking always have to straddle a certain line, making s...
This time, our reviewers were hard at work, tackling films from 1911-1920. Short films continued to be made available to the public but some of the films became quite longer. Film editing was more creatively employed in storytelling on film.
Gorgeous UI, Poor Programming In Hosoda's Latest Feature
DIRECTED BY MAMORU HOSODA/2021
One of the best known anime directors, arguably second only t...
Ralph Bakshi Pushes Boundaries in Landmark X-Rated and Animated Debut
DIRECTED BY: RALPH BAKSHI/1972
BLU-RAY STREET DATE: OCTOBER 26, 2021/KL STUDIO CLAS...
Osamu Tezuka's Sci-Fi Historical Epic Mash-Up is an Ambitious, Disjointed Disaster
DIRECTED BY: OSAMU TEZUKA AND EIICHI YAMAMOTO/1970
BLU-RAY STREET DATE...
Adult Animation Makes a Wild and Wonderful Debut in Anime Rendition of Arabian Nights
DIRECTED BY: EIICHI YAMAMOTO/1969
BLU-RAY STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 24...
Ethan Halker enjoys cartoons. As an animator and lecturer he’s perpetually in some stage of watching, reading about, shouting endlessly about, and/or making cartoons. He’s opted to add “writing about” to that list in the desperate hope of curtailing “shouting endlessly about”. Chances of success are slim to nil.
