Adziu's small corner

This beautiful, reverent, affectionate and historically accurate Japanese movie almost slipped me by – not as connected as I once was to...

The Shinkai Makoto story really starts with the surprise release of the iconic Hoshino Koe , It must be close to a decade since I saw ...

Quite a few of these short animations get showcased on the Nintendo 3DS, but this is the first one I've felt compelled to comment ...

This 1982 film was Michael Rosen’s follow-up to the popular but controversially visceral Watership Down , and in another world possibly...

Miyazaki Junior got what most Ghibli directors – even ones who make successful films like The Cat Returns – do not. He got a second cha...

As predicted in my impressions of the first Nasu film , this one is despite being along the same lines as its predecessor rather more co...

Despite being an animation fan, I actually hadn’t heard of The Secret of Kells until about two months ago. I missed any news of its release ...

The usual reaction to the production story of this film is one of great sympathy to a genius of an artist and anger towards idiot corporate ...

It seems a little counter-intuitive, but this kiddie-friendly animation about cute talking animals seems much more likely to prove to the ...

With this artsy short film, Kousaka Kitarou managed the rather bizarre feat of becoming the new figure to watch – after already having had a...

Waltz with Bashir got a lot of attention – primarily with arthouse audiences – upon its release in 2008. With a striking, realistic art sty...

Le Roi et l'oiseau is widely considered a masterpiece of animation. Two things brought me to it. The first was reading about Norstein ...

I watched director Shinkai Makoto’s famous debut Hoshi no Koe when it was first available, a beautiful short film all the more astonishing...

Persepolis - that strange, comic-book-style, largely black-and-white animation from France that was nominated for an Oscar and in my view de...

Aleksandr Petrov is quite unique in the modern animation scene, perhaps in the whole history of the art, not for conceiving of his way of cr...

‘ Hoshi no Koe was a nicely bleak and different short, produced almost entirely by one man, about a young girl sent to a distant galaxy sti...

It’s hard to write anything about Zagreb animations, because they are so short and so varied. The Zagreb School is something of an alternati...

What I suspected is now confirmed. I’ve seen every Ghibli film directed by Miyazaki, and with Poroporo, every Ghibili film directed by Takah...

Not to be confused with The Illusionist , the 2006 film with Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti, itself easy to confuse with 2005’s The Prestig...

Tekkonkinkreet is an interesting animated movie, something of a milestone in anime history, despite being far left of the mainstream. For on...