animation

Friday Film Review: Ziggy’s Gift and A Wish for Wings that Work

Friday Film Review: Ziggy’s Gift and A Wish for Wings that Work

Ziggy’s Gift (1982) Genre: Holiday Animation Grade: B “Love is the answer.” Ziggy’s Gift is a 1982 TV special about Tom Wilson’s cartoon character Ziggy and his dog Fuzz trying to do the right thing. Ziggy wakes up one morning and while getting ready for the day, first hears a TV reporter doing man-on-the-street interviews(…)

Friday Film Review: The Triplets of Belleville

Friday Film Review: The Triplets of Belleville

The Triplets of Belleville -Les triplettes de Belleville (2003) Genre: Animation dramedy Grade: B If you haven’t seen this film or any stills from it, prepare yourself for a surrealistic animation style radically different from Disney or Pixar. Not better, not worse but very different. Things are heightened, elongated, exaggerated and unforgettable. My personal feeling(…)

What Jayne is reading/watching in early September

What Jayne is reading/watching in early September

Courting the Enemy by Renee Ryan – I liked the first book in this inspie WWII series but even 1/3 of the way through this one still hadn’t got off the ground for me. When I read a book about espionage and spies during wartime, I expect some action. Perhaps I didn’t wait long enough(…)

Friday Film Review: Corpse Bride

Friday Film Review: Corpse Bride

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005) Genre: Stop Action Animation Grade: B- Though Corpse Bride doesn’t live up to the wonder that is “Nightmare Before Christmas,” it still has oodles to recommend it. Fantastic puppets, painstaking animation and the voices of some acting greats to bring these creations “to life” (even if some of them are(…)

Friday Film Review: Princes et Princesses

Friday Film Review: Princes et Princesses

Princes et Princesses (2000) Genre: Animation/Fairy Tales Grade: B Despite the fact that this is animation and about fairy tales, it is not a film I would recommend for children – that is unless they speak French. It’s a French film and thus has subtitles which rules it out if one can’t read them or(…)

Friday Film Review: Sita Sings the Blues

Friday Film Review: Sita Sings the Blues

Sita Sings the Blues (2008) Genre: Animation Grade: A When I put this in my Netflix queue, I had no idea how truly revolutionary it would be. Even as I started to watch it, I didn’t know what was coming but found myself charmed, delighted and emotionally connected to the story and the storyteller. For,(…)