animation The Breadwinner 23 Dec 2020Dec 23, 2020 "Raise your words, not your voice" ★★★★★ Nora Twomey's 2017 film The Breadwinner is an animation based on Deborah Ellis' 2000 novel of the same name. Taking on a war-ravaged…
animation The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales 11 Nov 2020Dec 21, 2020 "Let it blossom, let it flow. That's life." ★★★★★ Told in a quaint, almost Aesopian way, Benjamin Renner’s The Big Bad Fox (French: Le Grand Méchant Renard et autres contes, 2017)…
animation Blame! 30 Oct 2020Dec 21, 2020 "They say they will do what the humans say. That's a good thing, right?" ★★★★★ Hiroyuki Seshita's Japanese CGI anime Blame! (2017) is based on the ten-volume manga of the…
animation Princess Mononoke 10 Jun 2020Dec 21, 2020 "Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite" ★★★★★ A masterpiece that needs no introduction is this 1997 Japanese animated fantasy war film, written and…
animation Princes & Princesses 25 May 2020Dec 21, 2020 "Be brave" ★★★★★ Saturday afternoons should be officially dedicated to animation films. Drawn characters have more power over us – whether young or old – than any talented actor in…
animation Pachamama 12 May 2020Dec 21, 2020 "Mother Earth, the universe and all space and time" ★★★ The trailer for Netflix's 2018 Pachamama promised a rare glimpse into the culture surrounding Mother Cosmos, worshipped by the indigenous…
animation Sky Blue 9 May 2020Dec 21, 2020 "They call us diggers, and they treat us like dirt" ★★★★★ It wasn't the ferociously grey setting of Sky Blue (alternative title: Wonderful Days) that still haunts me. It wasn't…
