DISAPPEARANCE – Architect, engineer, writer… His multiple skills enabled him to produce great special effects for the films of Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick and George Lucas, after a stint at NASA in the 1960s. The galaxy is in mourning. Colin Cantwell, American designer of the iconic spaceships of the saga Star Warsdied on May 21 […]
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Spiders, snakes, bats… These works that rehabilitate unloved animals
Make a bat nest box, draw a spider, learn to distinguish a dog from a wolf… Here are some of the activities offered in the first issue of the magazine The Unloved. This virtual publication, available free of charge on the website www.lesmalaimes.fr, has set itself the objective of coming to the aid of “pariah” […]
“Princess Dragon”, a touching tale about the strength of friendship
Princess Dragon *** by Jean-Jacques Denis and Anthony Roux, 1:14 a.m. Once upon a time there were two little girls, Hair and Princess, that everything separated but that fate ended up reuniting. After making a pact with a witch, a dragon inherited three eggs. Out of the last one came Hair, a strange human capable […]
Ron unlocks, a digital friend who wants you well
CRITICAL – The British studio Locksmith animation delivers an uplifting and deeper-than-first animated film about the ubiquity of small, connected robots that threaten to make children’s lives selfish and lonely. Ron unlocks, which leaves opportunely on the eve of the All Saints’ Day holidays, turns out to be a nice surprise! Funny, rhythmic, beautifully animated, […]
A Japanese cartoon inspired by the Lord of the Rings and his horsemen of Rohan
CINEMA – Co-produced by Warner and New Line Cinema, The War of the Rohirrim will tell the story of the lords of the horses to whom Gandalf and his friends owe a debt of gratitude. The horsemen of King Théoden get back in the saddle. Not content with being the subject of a series produced […]
“Coming out of school”, the poetry of Andrée Chedid’s daily life
” Poetry – by uneven and muffled paths – leads us towards dawn in the land of the first time. This unknown land, so well described by Andrée Chedid (1920-2012), is trodden by young graduates of the best French animation schools who make their first professional films by adapting texts by the poet. As every […]
Studio Ghibli’s films soon available on VoD on FilmoTV
All of the works by Japanese studio Ghibli will be available from February 17 on video-on-demand platforms. Hayao Miyazaki fans will appreciate the news. Studio Ghibli films will be available “From February 17 in VoD, both rental and digital purchase”, announced the broadcaster Wild Bunch, in a press release, specifying that this availability would be […]
“Chouette, pas chouette”, a series to combat sexist clichés
Don’t do to others what you wouldn’t like to be done to you. This is the principle of the animated series Nice, not nice, which seeks to fight against sexist assumptions. In one of the sixteen episodes, Jaja the panther would like to play soccer with the boys, but Toto the seagull refuses because he […]
Five films to watch with the family during the holidays
At a time when the 7e art is not really at the party, it is good to console yourself with classics of family cinema to see or review at home before being able to return to discover them in theaters. But how do you choose? On the occasion of the upcoming release of his new […]
Calamity, the girl who dreamed of being a cowboy
For this new animated feature film, Rémi Chayé scratches behind the legend of a rebel conquering the West. Rémi Chayé took five years to make this film inspired by the life of Martha jane cannary. Gebeka Films “It was not easier, but it went faster”, says Rémi Chayé about his second animated film, Calamity, a […]