Welcome to our new weekly feature “Saturday Morning Cartoons,” where each Saturday one of our writers will post a piece talking about one of their favorite animated shows, be it one from their youth or one that they’ve recently begun…
Ally’s Movie Review: “When Marnie Was There”
The themes of friendship, love, loneliness and depression are strong in Studio Ghibli’s latest film When Marnie Was There. It’s a deeply emotional film, one that takes special interest in its young protagonist, following the Ghibli fashion of allowing its…
Ally’s Movie Review: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
This is powerful filmmaking at its prime and in all honesty it feels above me. I loved this film and it put me through the emotional gauntlet so to speak, refusing to fall to any sort of familiar animated convention…
David’s Movie Review: The Wind Rises
Rating: 9.5 out of 10 I had been eagerly awaiting the new film, The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) from the Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, since its trailer hit the internet last fall. I have always been a fan of Miyazaki’s brilliant…
Top Ten: The Best of Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki is a genius filmmaker. He has continually created masterpieces, infusing the cinematic world of animation with a vigor and magical realism that it hadn’t seen before his touch. His animation is intricate and worked on with painstaking detail,…
Top 10 Things We Can Learn from Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki
By: Luke Amargo Writers? Animators? Filmmakers? Human beings? It’s hard not to be envious of Hayao Miyazaki’s legacy (and he’s not even close to being dead). Through and through, he is an icon to nearly every facet of creative medium;…