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In some ways, watching Ponyo, the latest effort from Japanese master animator Hayao Miyazaki, is like taking a trip back into time. These days, everything to come out of American animated houses is computer-generated and/or 3-D. Gone are the tim...

Porco Rosso is an outlier in the early canon of master Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki – too dark and ambiguous for young children and too uneven for older viewers. Although superior to all but the best American-made animated motion pictures of...

For many years, Walt Disney and his army of crack artists dominated the world market for feature-length animation, bringing forth unforgettable classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Sleeping Beauty, and Pinocchio. Even today, many North ...

The cream always rises to the top, and such is the indisputable case with Anthony Hopkins' deeply moving portrayal of the stilted butler of Darlington Hall in the newest offering from Merchant Ivory. Reuniting Howards End co-stars Hopkins and Emma...

With its curious fusion of tear-jerking drama and fish-out-of-water humor, Rental Family is indeed a strange brew—one of those films that sounds slightly ridiculous in synopsis but blossoms into something unexpectedly tender when experienced mom...

Arguably, the biggest hurdle to clear for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is its title. Let's be frank - how many viewers will be excited by the prospect of seeing a movie about salmon fishing in the Middle East? And the name is neither allegorical nor...

The Asian horror remake subgenre has gone through all the stages of bread: at first, it was a fresh alternative to generic American horror then, as more product came out of the cinematic oven, it grew increasingly stale. Now, it's rock hard and mo...

To animators across the world, Hayao Miyazaki is a god. Within the animation community, his work is revered, and fans of “anime” (Japanese animation) await each new Miyazaki film with the same degree of ill-concealed impatience as displayed by...