Harvie Krumpet first published by Movie Gazette, 4 Apr 2005 Though only a minute in length, Adam Elliot’s first student film, the hand-drawn Human Behavioural Studies, Series One (1996), is like a calling card for the Australian animator, laying out in its three remarkably compressed character studies a preoccupation that would typify all his future…
Mad God opens with a firebrand-lit edifice towering into the sky, until its peak is struck by lightning and the whole structure is enveloped in black storm clouds. In case the building’s identity as the Biblical Tower of Babel is missed, this is followed by a portentous quote from the Old Testament (Leviticus 26:27-32) listing…
First published by EyeforFilm If good adaptation involves a conversation between artists that respects both the similarities and the differences between them, then Fantastic Mr. Fox is one of the finest. It has been drawn from one of the slimmer children’s stories by Roald Dahl, but at the same time it is unmistakably a movie…
The Boxtrolls first published by Film4 Synopsis: In this stop-motion steampunk fairytale from the production company behind Coraline (2009) and ParaNorman (2012), a young foundling and his adoptive monsters resist scapegoating and persecution. Review: In the hill-top/-middle/-bottom hamlet of Cheesebridge, the upwardly mobile Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley) makes a deal with Lord Portley-Rind (Jared Harris): in…