Tag: GKids

Blu-ray Animation: Deluxe ‘Totoro’ and the complete ‘Batman’

Animation, Blu-ray, Shout! Factory 01/12/201901/12/2019 Sean Axmaker

My Neighbor Totoro: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory, Blu-ray)Batman: The Complete Animated Series (Warner Bros., Blu-ray) Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan’s living treasures, a beloved filmmaker whose animated films number among the most beautiful and most enchanting productions ever drawn by hand. In this day of CGI productions, the aging artists still personally draws […]

Hiromasa Yonebayashi directs the animated fantasy based on the children's novel by British author Mary Stewart

‘Mary and the Witch’s Flower’ – a magical odyssey on Netflix

!Featured, Animation, Blu-ray, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Kid Stuff, literary adaptation, Netflix, Streaming Movies 07/17/2018 Sean Axmaker

Mary and the Witch’s Flower (Japan, 2017), the magical fantasy by Japanese animator and filmmaker Hiromasa Yonebayashi (director of the marvelous When Marnie Was There), based on a children’s novel by British author Mary Stewart, follows the adventures of a schoolgirl who receives magical powers for a day from a magical flower that blooms once […]