One of the most acclaimed animators in Canada, the only complaint about director Cordell Barker is he just doesn't make very much, his painstaking hand-drawn process guaranteeing gaps of years between his projects.  And so a new film by...

There probably wasn't any need to admit it so explicitly, but if there is something the subtle glory of サマーウォーズ (Summer Wars) did, it was further catapulting Madhouse into the upper echelon of world animation, but Hosoda Mamoru is certainly...

Now, don't get me wrong with that headline.  I really like Up and the entire slate of Pixar films, really.  All of them other than Cars, at least.  The point is just that when you take a trip out...

Good news, boys and girls.  Cult Belgian animation A Town Called Panic (aka Panique Au Village, aka Massive Twitch Fave, aka Fantastic Fest Audience Award Winner) will soon be hitting North American shores.  In the US, Zeitgeist Films will...

The entire National Film Board of Canada on your iPhone?  That's the miracle of technology folks, and they've gone and done it.  Canada's NFB launched an iPhone app earlier this month that allows users access to the entire library...

Canada, like all countries, spends an awful lot of tax dollars on very silly things.  Things that are good only as the punch line for jokes. But one thing that we spend our money on that I can get...

[Our thanks to regular reader Agent Wax for sending in the following review from the Singapore Animation Nation Festival.]I'll start off by saying that I have studied martial arts for much of my adult life. I have read Miyamoto...

[Our thanks to regular reader Agent Wax for sending in the following review from the Singapore Animation Nation Festival.]In many ways, this is the hardest review I've ever sat down and committed myself to writing. I regret watching Ari...

Did you have a happy and secure childhood? Good for you! Spike Jonze's movie is for the rest of us, the little lonely kids who battle anger and despair and depression without ever quite knowing how to deal with those...

I don't know whether it would make sci-fi novelists of yesteryear jump in self-congratulating jubilation, but we've finally entered a time when it's more likely to have twenty people from all over the world chat with you than finding the...