Tag: animation
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Invincible Season 4 Review — Still the Best Superhero Comic Adaptation on TV
Invincible Season 4 improves its animation, deepens its characters, and raises the stakes with the Viltrumite War—cementing it as the best American comic adaptation on TV.
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Pixar’s Hoppers Review – A Mind-Swapping Laugh Riot with Smart Insight
Pixar’s Hoppers blends sharp satire, stunning animation, and heartfelt friendship into one of the studio’s strongest original films in years.
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‘The Elephant’ Is Adult Swim’s Most Ambitious Animated Exquisite Corpse
Adult Swim’s The Elephant is a bold animated experiment from Cartoon Network legends, blending striking styles and big ideas about existence, creativity, and connection. A rare, rewarding surprise.
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Another RIOTUS Melee with Pluribus, Wake Up Dead Man, and Is This Thing On?
We debate and delight in Pluribus, Wake Up Dead Man, and Is This Thing On? Then pick a few favorites of the year, including Chainsaw Man and a juke joint full of Sinners.
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Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake season 2 balances Gen Z Life with Fantasy Brilliance
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake season two blends real-world adulthood with multiversal fantasy, deepening its characters and themes while delivering some of the strongest storytelling in the franchise. It’s heartfelt, imaginative, and emotionally sharp—showing how…
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In Your Dreams – The Emotions are Scene but not Felt
In Your Dreams is a lovely animated family movie, but while I understand what it wants to say, I’m not sure I feel it.
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Star Wars: Visions Returns Strong with Volume 3
Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 delivers another bold anthology of anime-inspired stories that explore the Force through dazzling styles and perspectives. From dueling cyborgs to bounty hunters and rebels, this collection showcases how deeply Japanese…
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‘Hazbin Hotel’ S2 Ups the Ante with Delightful Devilry & Bombastic Musical Numbers
Come for the music, stay for the heart; Hazbin Hotel puts on one hell of a performance.
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‘Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Deathwatch’ – A Brutal and Unflinching Animated Hit!
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Deathwatch will keep you engaged at all times from its animation, action, mystery and connection to this character Sam Fisher. Whether you know the gaming history of the character or never heard of…
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Tartakovsky Wants Us To Rise For THE BLACK KNIGHT
Animation legend Genndy Tartakovsky unveiled test footage for The Black Knight, an ambitious adult animated film about a 14th-century knight piloting a 20-foot armored suit.
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Welcome to the ‘Haunted Hotel’ – Any Time of Year, You Can Find Ghosts Here
Coming in hot from the creative brain of Rick & Morty’s Matt Roller, Haunted Hotel is a zany family/workplace comedy mashed up with the afterlife in all its monstrous mysteries.
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle is an Explosively Beautiful Anime Epic
Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle kicks off the franchise’s climactic arc with breathtaking visuals and explosive battles. Ufotable once again raises the bar for anime films, blending 2D and 3D animation seamlessly. Packed with emotional fights,…
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Iyanu: The Age of Wonders Brings Myth and Magic to Cartoon Network
Iyanu: Age of Wonders is a vibrant Yoruba-inspired animated special on Cartoon Network & HBO Max. Action, myth, and heart collide in a story kids and adults can enjoy. Newcomers welcome—fans rewarded.
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Ne Zha II – Picks Up the Action with Heart and Dazzling Animation
A sequel to 2019’s worldwide hit from Chinese mythology, NE ZHA 2 picks up the action with heart and dazzling animation.
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Eyes of Wakanda Dives Into Espionage and Myth Across MCU History
Stylish visuals and sharp action animate Wakanda’s secret history.
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Smurfs
In looking for his name (and destiny), a hapless Smurf threatens to bring about the end of the world. Unless Smurfs old and new can stop it, Gargamel’s brother will bring about a never-ending rein…
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KPop Demon Hunters: an Animated K-Drama That Slays
KPop Demon Hunters is bubbly blend of Sony animation, K-drama feels, and K-pop love, where the girl group Huntrix slays (the demons, their issues, and the charts)
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‘ELIO’ – Somewhere Out There You’ll Find Yourself
In ELIO earth is ghetto and he wants to leave. Turns out that’s a good decision in this emotionally hefty and thematically electrifying adventure.
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Predator: Killer of Killers Brings the Hunt Across History – And It Rules
I must say I’m sitting here in a bit of awe at how much I liked Predator: Killer of Killers, the surprise new animated anthology film coming to Hulu and Disney+.
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Ventress Finds Redemption and Cad Bane Gets Gritty in ‘Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld’
Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld doesn’t have shocking reveals or new characters but gives the audience good stories with cool characters perfect for May the Fourth.
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‘Love, Death + Robots’ is Back + Ready for Action
Dino-gladiators, devious cats, and chaotic household appliances—that’s right, it’s the return of Love, Death + Robots!
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Give Us More Nice Things: ‘Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl’
Your magical girl expectations are about to get hit with a “wop, wop, wop, wop, wop” in Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl (lead pipe included for efficiency)
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A Passenger Princess Takes the Wheel in ‘Lesbian Space Princess’
Princess Saira has 24-hours to call forth the ancient magic of her feminine woo-woo or her ex-girlfriend is gonna die. Time for a space quest
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Dreaming of ‘The Colors Within’
Three kids with sparkling auras form a band in the new GKIDS anime feature
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Classic Comic Vibes and Modern Twists: ‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’ is a Must-Watch
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is by far the best animated series Marvel Studios has made, especially being connected in some way to the MCU to me.
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Mufasa Leaps into the Legend
Did Mufasa: The Lion King shake the 2019 version and become a worthy heir to the original?
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The Horseman Of Rohan Ride Again…If Only They Had Gandalf Leading Them
In this adaptation of Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the people of Rohan’s clans struggle to maintain an uneasy alliance as looming evil arrives on the horizon
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James Gunn’s ‘Creature Commandos’ Turns Monster Misfits into Heroes in a Stellar DC Debut
The new DC Universe, under the leadership of James Gunn, begins this week with the animated series The Creature Commandos.
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Moana 2: Stunning Animation Elevates a Familiar but Entertaining Adventure
I think Moana 2 coming to theaters was a wise choice and a good elevation of the filmmakers’ hard work that I think most audiences will love and enjoy and rewatch for years to come.
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‘Jentry Chau vs the Underworld’ Has a Fiery Trailer feat. a New Theme Song by KATSEYE
Jentry Chau vs the Underworld is taking the phrase “facing your demons” all too literally—and we can’t wait.
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Nkechi Okoro Carroll, PBS ‘Renegades’ x Day Al-Mohamed & Lachi, ‘Invincible Fight Girl’ x Juston G-Montgomery, ‘CROSS’ x NYCC, ‘The Penguin’
Sherin chats with NBC’s Found creator Nkechi Okoro Carroll, before sitting down with Day Al-Mohamed and Lachi to celebrate Renegades.
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Head Back ‘Over the Garden Wall’ with a 10th Anniversary Stop Motion Short
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Patrick McHale’s beloved miniseries Over the Garden Wall, Aardman and Cartoon Network have released a stop motion special.
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Marvel Studios’ Look Ahead Trailer: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Daredevil, Ironheart + More!
Marvel dropped a trailer that gives us a look at the projects coming to Disney+ within the next year or so.
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NYCC Catch-up, ‘Invincible Fight Girl’ feat. Juston Gordon-Montgomery, ‘Shrinking’ S2, PBS ‘Renegades’ Aftershow #5: Brad Lomax
Julian recaps his time at this year’s New York Comic Con; our Rioters tease Invincible Fight Girl and Philip chats with executive producer Juston Gordon-Montgomery; Sherin and Alex share their love for Shrinking S2; and…
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Pharrell’s Creative Journey Comes to Life in ‘Piece by Piece’, A Delightful Lego-Animated Biopic
It’s hard to be objective in regards to Pharrell Williams.
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You Can’t Escape ‘The Elusive Samurai’
Be prepared to get sucked into the world of The Elusive Samurai like it’s an isekai (and you’re a hapless middle-aged salaryman). This anime made us wonder how it could be so horrific, heroic, cute,…
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Adult Swim’s Psi Cops Marathon
Later tonight on Adult Swim starting at midnight the network is airing marathon of the series PSI COPS. They’re airing episodes 1 through 8 uninterrupted until 2 AM EST. Here’s the schedule. Psi Cops 8/2…
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Batman: Caped Crusader
It’s hard to review Batman: Caped Crusader for me because, honestly, a new Batman animated series by Bruce Timm, James Tucker, Matt Reeves, Ed Brubaker, and J.J. Abrams is a no-brainer. Just from Bruce Timm,…
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These A**holes, Aren’t Human: DC Studios Release Teaser Trailer for ‘Creature Commandos’
James Gunn this Friday at San Diego Comic-Con showed off the new teaser for Max’s animated series Creature Commandos, which he wrote all seven episodes. Premiering this December. In the trailer, we are introduced to the entire…
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Despicable Me 4
I never thought Despicable Me would be such a major animated franchise rivaling Disney and Dreamworks in the cinematic landscape. The weird-shaped man voiced by Steve Carell, who is a villain who becomes a father…
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Ultraman: Rising
Ultraman – one of the most known Tokusatsu and Superhero characters from Japan known all over the globe. Created by Eiji Tsuburaya after co-creating Godzilla, Ultra Q, and later, the titular Ultraman is a hero…
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Inside Out 2 – Julian’s Review
I don’t want to start this off with sentiments like Pixar is back because Lightyear didn’t work for many when it was released. It also wasn’t their fault that four of their films were directly…
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My Adventures with Superman season 2 premiere review
One of my favorite shows from last year is Back – My Adventures with Superman, the Adult Swim animated DC superhero series with a modern retelling of the early days of Superman and the budding…
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The Garfield Movie
Garfield was one of my favorite comic strips growing up. It was one of the first titles I read consistently, especially by going to the library and checking out the strip collections, as there were…
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Star Wars: Tales of the Empire
In the Disney Era of Star Wars, since they got rid of the earlier expanded universe, it seems those in charge, specifically Dave Filoni, have taken upon the task of two things. One, curate what…
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Star Wars: The Bad Batch (season 3)
So, The Bad Batch is back with its third and final season. It snuck up on me even as it was announced that it was coming. Now, I’ll be honest: I fell off a bit…
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Wish
So Disney is celebrating 100 years this year. What’s funny is that it might be in the most tumultuous years in its history, between the writers’ and actors’ strikes happening simultaneously and the CEO becoming…
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Blue Eye Samurai
The pages of history are filled with women who posed as men to fight wars, either political or artistic. Not trans men (who also populated history), but women who donned the armor of masculinity that…
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Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake
Adventure Time might be one of the most landmark animated series in the history of cartoons. It was a shifting moment in culture along with Regular Show that marked a whole new period in Cartoon…
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
So it’s summer 2023, and we have a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Now for some, it’s been a while. They probably checked out of Ninja Turtles in the mid-90s. They old. For some,…
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Right now, I think Dreamworks Animation. I feel that they are the underdog in this current animation world right now. While Illumination has been packing houses, Sony Animation has been shattering expectations, and Disney/Pixar is…
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Elemental
I think Pixar is in a weird place right now. In a lot of ways, the pandemic has set them back, and I don’t know if Disney has done right by them lately. The rest…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse -Julian’s Review
So five years after changing how American Feature Animation the cinematic animated adventures of Miles Morales, Spider-Man. This film taking place almost a year and a half from the end of the last film, sees…
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Star Wars Visions: Volume 2 review
An international theme follows last year’s dream of Star Wars Anime, with animated shorts from animation studios from countries worldwide
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Tales of the Jedi
Basically: Six short stories about characters we know well from The Clone Wars era. I don’t know if I’ve written this before so bear with me: I prefer Star Wars in cartoon form. I think the concepts, themes,…
