One inevitably recurring theme in the many films you get see at festivals like VIFF is how the world isn’t going to give you the answers to life’s hard questions. It is often that the filmmakers must make meaning of…
Laika Celebrates 10 Years of Bold Filmmaking
Laika, a team of world-class filmmakers, artists and technicians, who over the course of ten years and three films have quite literally reshaped the format of animated cinema. Opting for an approach different than that of its computer generated counterparts…
Visual Effects Pioneer, Ray Harryhausen, Dies at Age 92
Before we start, I’d like to ask that you watch this scene from ‘Clash of the Titan’ first. The 1981 film ‘Clash of the Titans,’ was one of those movies that I saw as a child that, for some strange…
Gaby’s Movie Review: ‘ParaNorman’
My first impression of ParaNorman was hardly a lasting one. That was largely because I’m not the biggest fan of stop-motion animation. I’ve seen a couple stop motion films in the past and didn’t enjoy them as much as I…