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"Once you've cheated fate, what's next?" What?! Now this is cool. The Critics' Week sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival announced their line-up today, and included in the selection is a French animated film titled J'ai perdu mon corps. The title tran...

"Gotta get behind a guy before you stab 'em in the back." Who needs some extra Green Goods? Check out this excellent stop-motion animated short film Blind Mice, written and directed by filmmaker Nicholas D'Agostino of the upstart indie studio Pox Fil...

You know what's kind of great? Weekends where everything you do for entertainment is actually pretty darn entertaining. The work-week started with Dragged Across Concrete, which makes me ponder the calculus of movie-theater booking - it's got a...

"You...ugly...butt...lump!" Time for something just a bit funky, and all kinds of weird. Song of a Toad is a short film made as a student project at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg based in Southern Germany. Written and directed by Kariem Saleh,...

"Over the last several months, a number of citizens vanished into thin air." Studiocanal UK revealed the official full-length trailer for yet another adventurous animated movie based on toys, called Playmobil: The Movie. If it isn't obvious enough, t...

I suppose I should have expected the relatively low turnout after going to the same multiplex to see Master Z on Saturday and seeing a guy in a pretty nice Mister Susan Link costume, almost certainly sent out by the studio, just kind of awkwardly sta...

"This is a story about the world's secrets that only me and her know..." Toho Co. has unveiled an official trailer for the Japanese animation film titled Weathering with You, the highly anticipated next film from writer/director Makoto Shinkai, who a...

"This is your dream! You have to go for it, do you hear me...?" Vue Cinemas has unveiled an official trailer for an indie stop-motion animated film titled Strike, made by a small studio in the UK and being released next month. As pointed out on Twitt...

"You can't give up, Chou." GKids has debuted the first official US teaser trailer for an animated film from France titled Funan, the feature directional debut of filmmaker Denis Do. This premiered at the Annecy Film Festival last year, where it was a...

"He specializes in behavioral disorders." Universal + Illumination have finally revealed a full-length trailer for Chris Renaud's The Secret Life of Pets 2, the sequel to the animated hit from a few years ago about pets and the life they have after t...

"I wish something would liven up this already tedious day." MGM has debuted a teaser trailer for the new animated The Addams Family movie, which is co-directed by Greg Tiernan & Conrad Vernon, the same two filmmakers behind Sausage Party most recentl...

Whoa! Toho Co. in Japan has debuted the first official trailer for a new Japanese 3D animated feature film titled Dragon Quest: Your Story, based on the popular video game series of the same name. For those in America, this game was released under th...

How do you manage to be able to keep writing reviews for films you saw at a festival that ended eight months ago and mark your progress in doing so? Drawing that "X" is incredibly satisfying, and I've managed to do it 82 times for Fantas...

"She's a little mischievous... She's a little curious... But above all, she's a little lost." Studiocanal has debuted the full-length official UK trailer for A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, the latest comedy from stop-motion studio Aardman Anim...

"Our flaws make us who we are! Those are all worth fighting for..." STX Entertainment has released a third official trailer for the animated UglyDolls movie, opening in theaters in the beginning of May. This is based on the beloved-worldwide little w...