Heinz

The Dutch animated feature film industry long consisted of one movie only, ‘Als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel’ (The Dragon That Wasn’t (Or Was He?)) from 1983. But in recent years several other f…

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Dilili à Paris (Dilili in Paris)

Michel Ocelot belongs to the great author-directors of animated feature films, bringing us such gems as ‘Kirikou et la Sorcière’ (1998), ‘Azur & Asmar’ (2006) and ‘Les Contes de la nuit’ (2011)…

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Read my review of 'Spider-Man - Into the Spider-Verse', a game-changing film in American computer-animated feature animation https://wp.me/pzHyu-6hF #animation #milestone #animatedfeature #featureanimation #spiderman #Marvel

http://drgrobsanimationreview.com/2024/04/15/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse/

Spider-Man – Into the Spider-Verse

For American feature animation 2018 was mostly a rather uneventful year. True, the year started off well with the release of ‘Isle of Dogs’, and it was also the year of Nina Paley’s second animatio…

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Read my review of 'Smallfoot', the first of three animated feature films from 2018-2019 about yetis https://wp.me/pzHyu-6hm #animation #warnerbros #featureanimation #animatedfeature

http://drgrobsanimationreview.com/2024/04/08/smallfoot/

Smallfoot

In the strange world of American computer animated feature films, movies with the same story subjects are released at the same time. This phenomenon was particularly striking in the industry’s earl…

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Ruben Brandt, a gyűjtő (Ruben Brandt, Collector)

One of the more surprising and more original animated feature films from 2018 was this little gem from Hungary. Conceived and directed by Milorad Krstić, a director of Slovenian origin, ‘Ruben Bran…

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Kimi no Suizō o Tabetai (I Want to Eat Your Pancreas)

‘I Want to Eat You Pancreas’ is the first of only two animated feature films by the rather obscure Studio VOLN, from which I at least had never heard before. Studio VOLN isn’t even a big player in …

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Waka Okami wa Shōgakusei! (Okko’s Inn)

‘Okko’s Inn’ is an animated feature film based on a children’s novel series Hiroko Reijō. The film stars a little girl, who’s still at elementary school when she survives a terrible car accident in…

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Seder-Masochism

Seder-Masochism is the second feature animation film by independent animation artist Nina Paley (born 1968), who created quite a stir with the lovely ‘Sita Sings the Blues’ (2008) in which she blen…

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Kureopatora (Cleopatra)

The most important development in animation of the late 1960s and 1970s was the coming of animated feature films aimed at adults, instead of children/families. Heralding the new era was George Dunn…

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Read my review of 'Funan', an animation film about Cambodia's dark years of the Khmer Rouge https://wp.me/pzHyu-6dT #animation #featureanimation #terror #khmerrouge

http://drgrobsanimationreview.com/2024/01/17/funan/

Funan

‘Funan’ is a film by Denis Do, a French film maker of Cambodian descent, and the film is partly based on the memories of his own mother.

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