Animes Movies

What could be worse than the shells that other people place us in our lives? The shells that we place on ourselves. This notion of invisible baggage that people possess, in addition to normal stuff, such as insecurity and grief and its more abstract sister ‘trauma’ forms the essence of Adam Elliot’s remarkable directional massacre […]

‘Despicable Me’ begins with acceptance of the fact, that there is always something fascinating about villains and that is what motivates the portrayal of a character called Gru who, for example, comes to Starbucks and freeze-drys everybody in the queue and bursts the balloons in the hands of the kids. Many a James Bond villain […]

When it comes to characters, “Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds” is one of the most pleasant painted story books human animation can offer and, hopefully, will not lose to other media. Paper & Soul is directed and co-written by French filmmaker Benoît Chieux (with writing partner Alain Gagnol), and produced in Koproduktion with […]

Kind of all over the place for me, were the two “Despicable Me 4” movies that I have seen so far, especially for a franchise that has been more or less consistent in its style of PG animated humor. I loathed the first one, loved the second one, thought the first “Minions” spinoff had it […]