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"I always got the lucky coin." Yet another wonderful stop-motion animated short film to enjoy. The Coin is the latest short film made by Chinese filmmaker Siqi Song - who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film last year with her short...

"It seems to me that that so called 'dirty word' is probably the most useful word in the English language." The beloved comic book legend Stan Lee never used any curse words. Or did he...? Well, now we know the definitive answer. Honestly, who doesn'...

"You want me to be a baby again...?" Universal has released the first official trailer for The Boss Baby 2: Family Business, an animated sequel from DreamWorks Animation. The director of all the Madagascar movies and Megamind returns again to direct...

"We will build the ultimate weapon! Their stuff will be our stuff!" How did we miss this?! Netflix is showing a new 40-minute animated holiday special film titled Alien Xmas, the latest creation of the Chiodo Bros. This stop-motion animated adventure...

"Hell is paved with good intentions." We all know this quote... But how many are actually capable of doing the right thing when it's needed? Good Intentions is a short film made by Swedish animation filmmaker Anna Mantzaris as her graduation project...

Boxing and piano go together like... wait, they don't go together at all. Well, now they do! Let's get ready to inspireeee. Last Round is a fantastic animated short film made by a group of five student filmmakers at the Ecole Georges Méliès animati...

"If you have an idea, if you have something you want to work on, you owe it to yourself to try to make it happen." Netflix has unveiled an official trailer for an animated short titled Canvas, debuting streaming on Netflix this December. Directed by...

Some days, an afternoon at the cinema resolves itself into a themed double feature whether you want it to or not. Yeah, they're intended for different audiences and there's only this very surface-level similarity, but you can't not see it. Anyway,...

"Dreams can be pondered over anywhere. So why the sea?" "Dreams have no boundaries there." Netflix has debuted a new official trailer for the animated movie Bombay Rose, which originally premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year and stopped by...

Well, that was awkward. Everyone knows this uncomfortable feeling. When something strange happens in public and you feel really, really awkward and just want to run away and hide. Awkward is a fun animated short film made by the very talented Ukraini...

"Welcome to the 'Croodaceous' period – the awkward adolescence of the world's history, when even the wildlife was still figuring out what it wanted to be." DreamWorks Animation has released a funny trailer for The Croods: A New Age, the sequel to...

"Society is afraid of change and no one wants to die; not now, from a tiny virus; not later from the world on fire..." Something wholesome to soothe the nerves. A balm for these lonely pandemic days. How to Be at Home is a new animated short film x p...

"Pennies saved don't add up to much." Everyone loves idioms! Or at least, we love using idioms and tossing them into casual conversations all the time. Kill Your Idioms is a two-minute animated short created by Grant Kolton that riffs on some of the...

I'd planned to do a Kitamura/Miyazaki double feature at some point during all this (gestures at 2020), but pushed it off a bit when I saw that there was a CGI version due to get a Fathom release, although it looked like that might be out of reach whe...

"Now to restore peace, I must find the last dragon. My name is Raya." Disney has unveiled the first teaser trailer for Disney Animation's exciting new action adventure movie Raya and the Last Dragon, being directed by the filmmakers Don Hall (of Big...