When Marnie Was There – Ghibli Rewatch

The Owl House is back and we talk all about Season 2’s first two episodes “Separate Tides” & “Escaping Expulsion” after going through a bunch of recent shows & movies that we’ve been watching lately. Hosts this week: Dylan Hysen, […] 

Hear all our thoughts on the latest Disney princess film Raya and the Last Dragon after we go through a bunch of recent animated releases! Hosts this week: Dylan Hysen, Aly Martin, Alex Bonilla, & April Collins. Timestamps for the […] 

Howl’s Moving Castle is one Hayao Miyazaki’s most magical films and is beloved by many. Listen to hear us break down everything from this film in our latest installment of the Ghibli Rewatch podcast series, going through every Studio Ghibli movie chronologically in honor of the f ...  عرض المزيد

Margaret Talbot, writing in The New Yorker in 2005, recounted that when animators at Pixar got stuck on a project they’d file into a screening room to watch a film by Hayao Miyazak ...

In this episode, we’re laughing and crying to the sweet melodies of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2008 film Tokyo Sonata, and its social commentary on the Japanese nuclear family in the midst of a financial crisis. 

We explore the film’s construction of a patriarchal nuclear famil ...

Humorist, David Rees, returns to Blank Check discuss one of the greatest animated films of all time, Spirited Away. Together they examine dream logic, Shrek, David Rees presents an important review of Spirited Away from Nigel Andrews at the Financial Times and plenty more!  Join ...  عرض المزيد