Firefly’s big revival plans take the story in the wrong direction

When Nathan Fillion and the cast of the 2002 space Western Firefly started teasing some kind of Firefly revival series, I ...
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Flow’s animated animals are both its most and least realistic element

In Flow, one of 2024’s best animated movies, a little black cat navigates a post-apocalyptic world full of rising floodwaters. The feline protagonist flees threats and chases fish, scurries up trees ...
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I made this Venn diagram to explain the year’s best animated movies

Robot Dreams and Flow are both silent movies, with a lot of emphasis on the characters’ physicality and how they express themselves without words. Survival adventure Flow is very grounded in how real ...
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Zelda fans have spent years animating their own vision for a movie

Nintendo’s announcement of a live-action movie inspired by The Legend of Zelda felt both inevitable and yet almost unbelievable. I say the former, because how could Nintendo resist attempting to ...
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Stopmotion director says his brand of animation is necromancy

On May 31, Robert Morgan’s queasy horror movie Stopmotion will start streaming on Shudder. But hardcore horror fans will have a chance to see the live-action/animation hybrid in theaters early, ...
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Netflix’s Orion and the Dark brought back techniques animators aren’t using anymore

Like many animated movies in the last couple of years, Netflix and DreamWorks’ Orion and the Dark steps outside the design conventions that had come to define American CG movies. The stylistic ...
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The era of the animated action movie is here

2023’s most exciting and successful animated movies all share one big thing: They all have unusually daring, innovative, exciting fight sequences. It’s not that previous animated movies were bereft of ...