Animated movies get a bad rap. Nobody ever thinks to give, say, Oppenheimer or The Godfather the cartoon treatment, no matter how much more you can do with a horse’s head without the laws of physics to bind […]
A lot of anime is known for its exciting action sequences. Giant robots pummel each other, muscular men with spiky hair yell out the names of their next martial arts special attack, and kids have […]
Most of the saddest movie scenes — Artax’s death, Dobby’s death, just about any adorable creature’s death — come in the middle of a movie (or, in Dobby’s case, the end of a part one that didn’t […]
Studio Ghibli’s Spiritual Inception with Nausicaä Before Studio Ghibli was officially founded, there was Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, a film that garnered substantial acclaim and success. Nausicaa may very well be the […]
When Spirited Away was unleashed onto the world back in 2001, lots of people were still wrapping their heads around animation being more than a kid’s genre. Studio Ghibli’s story about Japanese folklore and the […]