[EDITOR’S NOTE: Seeing as how this Halloween falls in the year 2013 the crew at SKC decided to invite 13 of our blogging brethren for a monster-sized countdown, weekdays now until Halloween day, celebrating each person’s favorite Halloween movie or animated special.] When it came time to choose my pick for our Halloween 13 blog-a-thon […]
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by Rondal 2 Comments
Ever since stepping into the spotlight with Coraline and – more recently – ParaNorman, LAIKA has continued to impress with both the quality of its stop motion process as well as its ability to tell really fun, yet darkly-themed stories that both kids and adults can enjoy. Its latest project, THE BOXTROLLS, seems to follow […]
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Whether you want to admit it or not, I think we all remember those god-damned Troll dolls from the 90s. How could we not?! Their popularity ran so rampant that they spawned into virtually every medium including animation, video games and – yes – action figures. Now, maybe it’s just the easily impressionable 7-year old […]
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Some of the DVD/Blu-Ray releases for this week. Troll Hunter – From Norway, this thing has been a huge international art house hit (well, as big as an art house hit can be, I guess). Check out the trailer here. The premise of this faux documentary is that fantasy creatures like fairies, trolls and monsters […]
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Absentia is a quite, almost unassuming, trip into paranoia that employs some clever editing and excellent character acting… When I first heard about director Mike Flanagan’s Absentia over on Cortez’s Planet of Terror last month I knew it was a film that I wanted to see. Luckily, I was able to do just that recently […]