I’m not exactly sure how it is that directing a critically-acclaimed Oscar-nominated film that helped create an animation studio and remains the highest-grossing film in that studio’s history sends a fella to Director Jail, but that’s where Henry Selick has been for the thirteen years since making Coraline, still one of the best animated features […]

Due to unforeseen circumstances, I wound up watching The School for Good and Evil in two sections: the first hour and fifteen minutes in one go, the remaining hour and ten minutes a while later. After section one, I thought the negative critical reception seemed unfair. Sure, the CGI wolf heads attached to the guard […]

Prey for the Devil, then operating under The Devil’s Light (it is, I think, an open question which of these is worse – I refuse to frame the question as which of them is “better”) was filmed in the summer of 2020, more than two years before it ultimately came out. And it feels like […]