The thing about puppies is, they start out all small and cute and oh-so-adorable. Look at their puppy paws, way too big for their itty-bitty widdle bodies! Listen to their playful woofs and yips, as they tumble around and trip over themselves! Feel how fuzzy their rolly-polly bellies are, as …
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What, you thought Disney had a lock on recycling their old animated films as live-action romps, in the name of milking back-catalog properties and nostalgia-driven fandom? The animation division of the former entertainment-bigwig supergroup known as DreamWorks may not have the deep bench that the Mouse House does, but they’re …
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Most TV revivals are bad. They exist solely for the cynical purpose of exploiting a familiar title, not because there are new stories worth telling in a particular world. Good TV shows are the product of a specific time in the lives of the characters on the show, the people …
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Much of the tension in the Netflix animated fantasy epic Arcane: League of Legends involves two potential mergers, both of them incredibly volatile. The first is the plan by inventor Jayce (Kevin Alejandro) to use technology to harness the power of his world’s bygone age of magic, in a combination …
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“Still not a princess!” exclaims the young woman who’s about to go save her friends (and likely the world), reunite her scattered community and go down in the history books. “Well, a lot of people think you are,” replies her fellow hero-slash-comic-relief. To wit: Moana may be the daughter of …
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And a pussycat shall lead them! Flow, the animated film that’s Latvia’s submission for the Best International Feature Oscar, kicks off with a beautiful moment of tranquility: A small, black feline, staring wide-eyed at itself in a rippling puddle. It’s somewhere in a forest, surrounded by foliage, and the ambient …
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We open on a world bathed in concrete gray. There’s a powerful government, a postapocalyptic class system with a telling name, and an unassuming teenager primed to start a worldwide revolution. Sound familiar? That’s because it’s the underpinning of most popular dystopian young adult franchises, including Uglies, a mid-aughts novel …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. To celebrate 15 years of the spooky tale of a girl named — well, you know — Laika Studios is inviting fans to enter the Other World with …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Bill Cipher is back, foolish mortals, and things about to get even weirder around here. Set on telling the villain’s “real” side of the story that happened in …
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Do androids dream of electric sheep? A better question: What if their R.E.M. cycles were filled with the same wish-fulfillment scenarios and sweaty-palm nightmares that the rest of us have, as thoughts of love and loneliness and hopes and fears danced through their metallic heads? Based on Sarah Varon’s 2007 …
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