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THE CLONE WARS (S7E10+11): Friends & Foes
THE CLONE WARS (S7E10+11): Friends & Foes

As the final season of Clone Wars dipped further and further into the timeline of Revenge of the Sith, it was apparent that we were going to see Ahsoka have to face Order 66 on her own.

THE CLONE WARS (S7E8+9): Out Of The Shadows
THE CLONE WARS (S7E8+9): Out Of The Shadows

As Clone Wars leads us further and further toward end of the series, the show is beginning to set the pawns in place for their final showdown.

Trolls World Tour: A Sufficiently Sugary Snack
TROLLS WORLD TOUR: A Sufficiently Sugary Snack

Trolls World Tour finds a few of the right notes to pluck from its candy-coated guitar that it’s less likely to induce a headache than most manic animated features.

THE CLONE WARS (S7E6+7): Familiar Faces & Masks
THE CLONE WARS (S7E6+7): Familiar Faces & Masks

Disney is brilliantly setting up The Clone Wars and The Mandalorian for the price of one and is creating the kind of connective thread that made the MCU films so successful.

THE CLONE WARS (S7E4+5) "Unfinished Business" & "Gone With A Trace": Not The Jedi Way
THE CLONE WARS (S7E4+5) “Unfinished Business” & “Gone With A Trace”: Not The Jedi Way

While we’ve followed the bad batch for four episodes now, the reintroduction of Mace Windu and Obi-Wan Kenobi helps to signal to us that we’ve arrived at a new plotline.

SXSW 2020 Short Films: RUN ON And THE SHAWL
SXSW 2020 Short Films: RUN ON And THE SHAWL

Stephanie Archer reviews two short films that were supposed to have its premiere at SXSW 2020: Run On, directed by Daniel Newell Kaufman and The Shawl, directed by Sarah Kiener.

CASTLEVANIA Season 3: A Season That Stands Strong
CASTLEVANIA Season 3: A Season That Stands Strong

Castlevania is just as exciting as any season that came before and raises the bar with one of the most shocking penultimate episodes of the entire show.

THE CLONE WARS (S7E3) "On the Wings of Keerdaks": The Great Escape
THE CLONE WARS (S7E3) “On the Wings of Keerdaks”: The Great Escape

The 3rd episode, “On The Wings of Keerdaks” was just a classic episode of Clone Wars with one thing on the agenda: get out alive. Let’s talk about it.

Fantastic Film Festival Australia Report 3: AWAY & S HE
Fantastic Film Festival Australia Report 3: AWAY & S HE

For our final report from the inaugural Fantastic Film Festival Australia, we take a look at two films that were in production for many years, Away and S He.

WHITE SNAKE: The Classic Myth + A Mesh of Hollywood Ideas
WHITE SNAKE 白蛇:緣起: The Classic Myth + A Mesh Of Hollywood Ideas

This telling of White Snake adds an action-fantasy plot to its romance story, and feels like a mesh of other fantasy films you’ve seen before.

THE CLONE WARS (S7E1+2) "The Bad Batch" & "A Distant Echo": We're Back!
THE CLONE WARS (S7E1+2) “The Bad Batch” & “A Distant Echo”: We’re Back!

Before I fell in love with Baby Yoda and the gunslinging world brought to us…

HARLEY QUINN Season 1: An Endearing Character Study In A Crazy World
HARLEY QUINN Season 1: An Endearing Character Study In A Crazy World

Harley Quinn is both entertaining, insightful and inspiring, and opens doors to great possibilities for DC Comics animation.

ONWARD: The Pixar Formula Loses a Little Magic
ONWARD: The Pixar Formula Loses A Little Magic

It’s Onward and downwards for Pixar, as their Dungeons and Dragons inspired latest is one of their most disposable efforts to date.

2020 Oscar Animated Shorts: Catharsis In Animated Relationships
2020 Oscar Animated Shorts: Catharsis In Animated Relationships

Stephanie Archer takes a look at 2020’s Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films, Daughter, Hair Love, Kitbull, Mémorable and Sister.

BOJACK HORSEMAN Season 6: Bidding Farewell to One of TV's Best
BOJACK HORSEMAN Season 6: Bidding Farewell To One Of TV’s Best

In the end, BoJack Horseman is a show about growth, and Season 6 proved that the series evolved along with its characters.