While there's a distinct novelty to all of their work -- whether it's based on books by Neil Gaiman or Alan Snow -- Laika have returned to genuinely original ma...
While it was looking like Roadside Attractions simply forgot they had picked up the rights to Gus Van Sant's The Sea of Trees, A24 went ahead and took the m...
Laika is finally back this year as Travis Knight's debut animated feature Kubo and the Two Strings arrives later this month and, in conjunction, Focus Featu...
After highlighting the best films of the year thus far, it's time to turn our attention to the fall. While Venice and Telluride will get things going, the big...
In cinema, differentiating it from most other mediums, one has the ability to give life to drama: time to flesh out characters, fill an unfolding story with int...
If Matthew McConaughey's Civil War drama Free State of Jones (or even Civil War) aren't your cup of tea this summer, we can recommend a more grounded experi...
In terms of Hollywood animation, no studio comes close to the level of detail and texture found in the films of Laika. Perhaps it has to do with their found...
Every couple of weeks, I'll wonder what happened to Gus Van Sant, that thought process always along the lines of, "So there was Restless in 2010, Promised L...