Let's show some love to this beautiful character study in growing up from Ghibli's unknown master. This article is dedicated to Isao Takahata (1935-2018).
Film Review: Only Yesterday / Omoide Poro Poro (1991)
First Thoughts on Paprika / Papurika (2006)
My first experience with Satoshi Kon has left my head in a whirl, so this might not be the most coherent review!
Short Review: Paperman (2012)
Fall in love with one of Disney's most beautiful and inventive shorts
Film Review: Your Name / Kimi no Na wa. (2016)
Be swept up in the romance of the biggest non-Ghibli anime film ever released (just try to ignore the plot holes). With the completion of my first reader's request, I wish you all happy holidays and look forward to welcoming you again in 2021!
First Thoughts on The King and the Mockingbird / Le Roi et l’Oiseau (1980)
Does this French surrealist masterpiece, stuck in development hell for decades, still hold up on its fortieth anniversary?
First Thoughts on Wolfwalkers (2020)
Cartoon Saloon delivers another beautifully animated tale of courage and Irish culture
Film Review: Frozen II (2019)
My review of the fifty-eighth Disney classic
First Thoughts on Allegro non troppo (1976)
A crazy yet cultured creation from 1970s Italy
Film Review: Rise of the Guardians (2012)
Everyone's animated boyfriend stars in a deeply underrated holiday classic from DreamWorks. This article is dedicated to William Joyce's daughter, Mary Katherine, taken far too soon by a brain tumour in 2010, and his wife Frances, who sadly passed in 2016 due to complications from ALS.
First Thoughts on Fantastic Planet / La Planète sauvage (1973)
A trippy little number from the kooky seventies, but does it live up to its intriguing premise?
