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When Anime Met Bashō: ‘Winter Days’ Brings a Warm Beauty to a Cold Season

Some of the greatest animators on our planet paying a tribute to a haiku master? That’s a match made in meditative melancholy.

Movies

Have you heard that there will be a theme park!? Have you!?

Remembering those lost in the attack at Kyoto Animation through their work.

The Pixar tearjerker—now on Netflix—should do more than make you cry with its reminders of what tethers us to family. Now go call your grandma.

The Earth is a shambles. The economy is a disaster. All the robots are lonely. So how is this episode one of the show’s funniest?

Even if we share an orientation, we’re not a monolith.

After almost two decades, working on the movies starring the heroes he grew up watching…is still pretty cool.

It’s been a long 10 years. These shows will get you through the next ones too.

We stopped by this year’s show. Here’s what we saw.

“What the Hex Going On?” Scoob, could you, like, pass the bong?