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" BoJack Horseman in LEGO " by Ochre Jelly via Flickr (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ) One of my earliest memories as a child involves me sitting in front of our family TV, cereal bowl in hand, watching an episode of Little Einsteins . I remember patting along on my lap to get Rocket, the friendly spaceship, to launch, and hearing Vivaldi’s Morning Mood  orchestrated as the animated children on screen encouragingly asked me to identify the shapes in the scene. This was my f

'Flow' ( Gints Zilbalodis , 2024); Image courtesy of Curzon On Tuesday, March 11th, I traveled to The Soho Screening Rooms to watch the...

The stop-motion sequel to the hit comedy animation Chicken Run (2000) premiered in London earlier this year at the BFI London Film...

Competing with two other adaptions of Collodi’s legendary children’s novel this year, one might wonder how Del Toro, for the first time...

‘Footsteps on the Wind’ is a 2021 animated short film that tackles the harsh realities faced by refugees around the world. Following two...

This piece originally appeared in the Strand Magazine's 2021 Spring Issue. When we imagine our post-pandemic world - what social,...

The ominous tone of Studio Ghibli but with one boy discovering his world, as we do, riding through the picturesque scenery. I first saw...