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Wildwood Review: Laika’s Biggest Stop-Motion Epic Is Also Its Most Emotional
Some films take years to make. Wildwood took the better part of two decades. Travis Knight, the president and CEO of the Portland-based stop-motion studio Laika, first read Colin Meloy’s manuscript before it was published in 2011. He knew almost…
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Wildwood Review: Laika’s Biggest Stop-Motion Adventure Yet
Laika has always made movies by hand. Every puppet, forest, and flying creature in Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings was built and moved one frame at a time. Wildwood pushes that idea further than the studio ever has.…
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Ray Gunn Review: Brad Bird’s Retro-Futurist Noir Dazzles, But Does It Hit?
Brad Bird has spent decades on this one. The director of The Incredibles and Ratatouille first dreamed up Ray Gunn long ago, and the finished film finally premiered at the BFI London Film Festival. Netflix will release it on December…
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Princess Mononoke Review: Miyazaki’s Masterpiece Belongs Back on the Big Screen
Some films get called masterpieces so often the word stops meaning anything. Princess Mononoke is one of the rare ones that actually earns it, over and over, on every rewatch. Nearly thirty years after its original release, Hayao Miyazaki’s epic…
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