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Studio Ghibli’s Movies Are the Goldilocks of Climate Change Critiques

December 11, 2019December 30, 2019 Isabel GalweyComments Off on Studio Ghibli’s Movies Are the Goldilocks of Climate Change Critiques

While the Japanese studio’s films don’t sugarcoat the conflicts between humanity and nature, they don’t oversimplify it, either.

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Twenty Years Later, ‘Princess Mononoke’ Is More Eerily Relevant Than Ever

December 10, 2019December 30, 2019 Rebecca LongComments Off on Twenty Years Later, ‘Princess Mononoke’ Is More Eerily Relevant Than Ever

The year that marked the Miyazaki classic’s two-decade anniversary was rife with oil spills and California fires. Can the movie’s lessons save us from ourselves?

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Three Decades Later, ‘Little Nemo’ Is Still a Dream

July 15, 2019December 30, 2019 Wyatt ErchakComments Off on Three Decades Later, ‘Little Nemo’ Is Still a Dream

In ‘Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland,’ which turns 30 this week, a child’s nighttime dreamland becomes a film made of wonder and whimsy.

EDITORS PICKS

How to Learn Pixar Storytelling for Free

By John Maher

Pixar and Khan Academy are putting Pixar in a Box, and by a box they mean your computer screen.

What Queer People Want the Future of Cartoons to Look Like

By Elly Belle

Queerness in cartoons has been subtextual for a long time, and a new generation of cartoons has brought it to the forefront. But there's a lot more to be done.

A Talk With Ralph Kelsey, the Man Who Wrote the Opening for SNICK

By Rob Ryan

Master of sound Ralph Kelsey’s done it all — from Nick at Nite to Sesame Street. Here’s how he did it.

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My Hero Academia Gears Up for an Epic Fight in “Symbol of Peace”

By Sarra Sedghi

Character development and a last-chance rescue heat up the conflict.

Wanna Visit the ‘Totoro’ Theme Park In 2020?

By John Maher

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

“We Got 5,000 Pitches”: How ‘What a Cartoon!’ Was Born

By John Maher

Fred Seibert, the brain behind the anthology series that launched Cartoon Network's biggest 1990s cartoons, on how the magic was made.

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Why The Great Pumpkin Still Haunts You and Me

By John Maher

Halloween, the descendent of Samhain, is about the overlap between the realms of the visible and invisible. Isn’t that enough?

Why Fans of ‘Frozen’ Should Check Out ‘White Snake’

By Charlotte Dow

But the source material for the film, which premiered at Fantastia 2019, happens to predate the Disney blockbuster's by roughly two centuries.

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Our back to school special! Here’s how Cartoon Network’s first miniseries obsessed over woodwinds in the best way possible.

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