It has kind of surprised me how Epic hasn’t gotten more attention. Granted, the film isn’t due to come out until next summer, and Blue Sky Studios (creators of Ice Age and Rio) aren’t exactly the kind of animation studio that excites people, but they seem to be consistently improving with their animation and story …
Good thing for the haters is that it is the opening 2 minutes of the film, but this animated sequence is truly outstanding stuff, and possibly even worth the price of admission. I’d go into more about Priest but I want to take some time to digest what I just watched and hopefully come up …
Over the past few months, Rango has been a film I have been eagerly anticipating, but I have to admit I truly had no idea just what the film was about. Oh sure I knew it was a Western of sorts, and its title certainly cast illusions that it might be tangentially related to Sanjuro. …
We’ll be recording the Movie Club Podcast later this evening and we’ll be reviewing Grave of the Fireflies and Wizards, two decidedly different takes on the children’s film, yet both are strongly anti-war in their own ways. And while Grave of the Fireflies is a somber film, Wizards reflects creator Ralph Bakshi’s more spastic and …