Tag: stop-motion animation

Chicken Run

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Post date December 6 2023
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Producer-Directors: Nick Park, Peter Lord – Producer – David Sproxton – 2000 – UK – Cert. PG – 84m ***** Which came first – the chicken or the egg? Plasticene stop-frame animation house Aardman Animations’ debut feature film reconceives The Great Escape with chickens – back out in UK cinemas from Friday, 24th July Aardman […]

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Sister Midnight

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 13 2025
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Director – Karan Kandhari – 2024 – UK, Sweden, India – Cert. 15 – 110m ***1/2 A young woman in an arranged marriage discovers herself to be a creature of the night… and one of the undead – genre-bender is out on UK digital from Wednesday, June 18th A young woman travels cross-country by train, […]

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Wallace & Gromit
Vengeance Most Fowl

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 16 2024
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Vengeance Most Fowl
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Directors – Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham – 2024 – UK – Cert. U – 79m ***** Feathers McGraw returns to wreak havoc with Wallace’s latest invention, robotic garden smart gnomes – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, December 18th 2024, on the BBC on Christmas Day, and on Netflix from Friday, January 3rd 2025 Opening […]

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Kubo
and the Two Strings

Director – Travis Knight – 2016 – US – Cert. PG – 101m ***** The following review originally appeared in Funimation UK; republished to coincide with the LAIKA: Frame x Frame exhibition which shows at BFI Southbank from Monday, 12th August to Tuesday 1st October 2024 (free to visit, but booking essential – click here) […]

Tags 3D animation, action, animation, CG, CG animation, Edo, eyes, fairy tale, fairytale, fantasy, folk tale, illusion, Japan, Laika Studios, monsters, mythology, Noh, origami, puppetry, samurai, skeleton, spirits, stop-frame, stop-frame animation, stop-motion, stop-motion animation, US, village, visuals, warrior

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Stopmotion

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 31 2024
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Director – Robert Morgan – 2023 – UK – Cert. 18 – 93m ***1/2 The bereaved daughter of a stop-frame animator attempts to complete her late mother’s last film – out on Shudder UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand from Friday, May 31st Let’s get the bad news out of the way first: […]

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Tsukamoto
–
Killing
(Zan, 斬、)
–
Haze
(ヘイズ)
–
The Adventures
of Denchu Kozo
(Denchu Kozou
no Boken,
電柱小僧の冒険)

Killing (Sawamura) Director – Shinya Tsukamoto – 2018 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 79m *** [Update: The Adventures of Denchu Kozo streams on the Arrow Channel from Friday, May 3rd 2024.] The Adventures of Denchu Kozo (Denchu kozo no boken) Director – Shinya Tsukamoto – 1987 – Japan – 45m **** Haze Director – […]

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The Inventor

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Post date March 5 2024
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Directors – Jim Capobianco, Pierre-Luc Granjon – 2023 – US, France, Ireland – Cert. PG – 100m **** Towards the end of his life, inventor Leonardo da Vinci goes to live in France under the patronage of the King – stop frame / drawn animation composite is out in the UK’s Vue cinemas on Friday, […]

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Chicken Run:
Dawn of the Nugget

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 8 2023
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Dawn of the Nugget
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Director – Sam Fell – Co-Director – Jeff Newitt – 2023 – UK – Cert. PG – 101m **** Which came first – the chicken or the egg? Having escaped the farm for an island paradise, the chickens must break into and wreck a food processing factory masquerading as a holiday camp to lure unwitting […]

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Tetsuo:
the Iron Man
(Tetsuo,
鉄男)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 29 2020
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the Iron Man
(Tetsuo,
鉄男)
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Director – Shinya Tsukamoto – 1989 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 67m ***** On Arrow Channel from Friday, September 22nd. Previously on BFI Player as part of Japan 2020. This review originally appeared in Manga Mania. A metals fetishist (played by director Shinya Tsukamoto) inserts a metal tube into his leg and the resultant […]

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Tetsuo II:
Body Hammer
(鉄男II
Body Hammer)

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Post date August 31 1993
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Body Hammer
(鉄男II
Body Hammer)
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Director – Shinya Tsukamoto – 1992 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 83m ***** The Iron Man Tetsuo is back… and this time, he’s got a wife and child – sequel to the cyberpunk classic was first released November 10th 1992, when this review appeared in Manga Mania. On Arrow Channel from Friday, September 22nd. […]

Tags Arrow Video, body horror, cyberpunk, fantasy, horror, J-horror, Japan, metal, new flesh, science fiction, Shinya Tsukamoto, stop-frame, stop-frame animation, stop-motion, stop-motion animation, Third Window Films