While Avatar: The Last Airbender deserves a lot of credit for getting me into animation...There is another piece of media that deserves to be mentioned. And considering it just celebrated its 20th anniversary this month, it seems like the right time to discuss Spirited Away. I first saw the movie when I was about 10… Continue reading In Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of”Spirited Away”
I wanted a cute film about music and found family, made in the traditional Ghibli way, and instead, I got Earwig and the Witch, which looks and reads like an early 2000s wannabe Disney straight-to-VHS mockbuster -designed to fool well-meaning grandparents or just something to keep kids quiet for an hour and a half. It’s… Continue reading “Earwig and the Witch” is aggressively mediocre
I don’t know how The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) made it on to Netflix; it’s not the kind of movie you would expect to get released on a streaming service. No Ghibli movies are currently available on these kinds of sites, despite having an obvious audience. But I’m not going to look a gift horse in… Continue reading “The Castle of Cagliostro,” the film that started it all
