“Brace yourself. A villain will rise.”
In this episode Stanford and Marc get suited up to discuss the new film in the DESPICABLE ME franchise, MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU. Also discussed, SCOOB: HOLIDAY HAUNT being canceled, RICK AND MORTY season 6 episode titles, Guillermo del Toro’s PINOCCHIO trailer, plus much, much more…
(recorded on: Wednesday August 10th, 2022)
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Studio Ghibli’s animated epic Princess Mononoke is celebrating its 20th anniversary. To commemorate this event, GKIDS, in partnership with Fathom Events, is sponsoring a two-night screening of the film.
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To our readers who live in or will be visiting Dallas, Texas this summer—you’re in for a real treat. The Angelika Film Center Dallas is putting on a family film festival exclusively with films from Studio Ghibli.
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Studio Ghibli has partnered with Dutch animator Michaël Dudok de Wit and German distributor Wild Bunch on their next animated feature called The Red Turtle. A new trailer recently debuted online.
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In case you missed it in theaters, Studio Ghibli’s latest hand-drawn animated feature When Marnie Was There is now available in the U.S. on Blu-ray and DVD.
Famed animation director Hayao Miyazaki has come out of retirement to direct again, but the project is not what you’d expect.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I did not grow up a ravenous anime connoisseur, as so many of my fellow animation geeks. I enjoyed some shows that were anime without really noticing that they were (like Rainbow Brite and TMNT), but I didn’t watch much Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh!, or Dragon Ball Z (much to my husband’s chagrin.) I did see Spirited Away the year it won the Academy Award and I, to be perfectly honest, did not get it. So much more fantastical and bizarre than what I was used to, I wrote it off as “weird.” Yet, I always knew there was something great I was missing–whether because the whole world was raving about it or from some inherent awesome-story-detector deep inside me, I’m not sure. In any case, it is now one of my favorite animated films, and Chihiro is one of the most interesting, admirable characters ever depicted–on-screen or in print.
Five animated features have been nominated for this year’s Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film. Here are the nominees with links to the films’ official websites or Facebook pages.
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