Animation… Movie #75 2022: Ponyo (2008) 15 Sep 202213 Sep 2022 In 2008, Disney Pixar released WALL-E. That's right, when Studio Ghibli were releasing this cute little 2-D hand drawn movie, the biggest animated movie studio in the world were putting…
Animation… Movie #190 2021: Mary and the Witch’s Flower (2017) 18 Aug 202111 Aug 2021 Like so many other fans of Studio Ghibli, I was disheartened and upset to hear that their latest movie, Earwig and the Witch, had been almost universally panned by critics.…
Animation… Movie #36 2021: Castle in the Sky (1986) 11 Feb 20211 Feb 2021 Yeah, I watched two animated films in a row. And what? To be fair to my choices, this could not be more different to Balto, so pipe down. Castle in…
Animation… Movie #24 2021: The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) 30 Jan 202122 Jan 2021 Two Studio Ghibli movies in one month? What a treat! Perhaps slightly less lauded than Princess Mononoke is The Secret World of Arrietty, which is also known as simply Arrietty…
Animation… Movie #1 2021: Princess Mononoke (1997) 7 Jan 20214 Jan 2021 We're back to square one! The first movie of 2021; the first movie in a batch of first watches for me in a new year. To say I'm excited about…
Animation… Movie #95 2020: Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) 17 Apr 202017 Apr 2020 Back with Studio Ghibli today, whose reserves I'm still making my way through since all of their films were added to Netflix recently. Yet again, we are back with some…
Action… Movie #62 2020: Porco Rosso (1992) 31 Mar 202030 Mar 2020 So in the upcoming bunch of entries, you may notice that I've been making more of an effort to watch animated movies. There are three reasons for this: Disney+ launched…
Animation… Movie #54 2020: Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) 27 Mar 202027 Mar 2020 As you'll probably know by now, Netflix have been releasing Studio Ghibli films on their streaming service since the start of February. With it's second wave came Kiki's Delivery Service:…
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