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REVIEW: Nimona (2023)

virginiakublawi | Jul 10, 2023 | 3

Nimona has had an interesting path to the screen. This adaptation of ND Stevenson’s graphic novel began life at Blue Sky Studios, best known for animated comedies like Ice Age and Rio. The film was 70% complete when Disney purchased the studio and scrapped Nimona. A year later, Annapurna a...

Final Nimona Trailer Sows Chaos

virginiakublawi | Jun 14, 2023 | 0

The final trailer for Netflix’s upcoming animated adventure fantasy film Nimona came out today, as well as new pictures from Entertainment Weekly. Check it out here: Overall, this looks promising. I wasn’t thrilled with the synopsis about Nimona being a rebel, not a lady, etc. That just feels ve...

Nimona Back in Production at Netflix and Annapurna

virginiakublawi | Apr 11, 2022 | 0

Nimona, the last film from Blue Sky Studios, has been revived by Netflix and Annapurna. This comes following Disney’s acquisition and dissolution of Blue Sky and cancellation of Nimona. The film will be a techno-medieval world unique in the medium of animation and follow Knight Ballister Boldh...

REVIEW: The Addams Family 2 (2021)

virginiakublawi | Oct 4, 2021 | 0

I was unsurprised when a sequel to 2019’s The Addams Family was announced. Thanks to an impressive cast and decent comedic elements, that film was surprisingly pretty good. The actors did a lot to elevate the material, building believable repartee and family relationships. The Addams Family wa...

REVIEW: The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)

virginiakublawi | Aug 25, 2021 | 0

Studio Ghibli released a second movie in 2013, this time directed by Hayao Miyazaki’s longtime associate and the studio’s co-founder, Isao Takahata. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya is based on “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter,” an ancient Japanese fairy tale about a girl found in a bamboo stal...

REVIEW: The Addams Family (2019)

virginiakublawi | Oct 16, 2019 | 0

This Halloween season has brought us another iteration of The Addams Family, a series of characters created by Charles Addams for his cartoon strips and immortalized by the 1960’s sitcom. People often deride remakes, re-boots, and all kinds of re-interpretations in blanket statements, but it depen...