Small town journalist. Cinema enthusiast. Life long fan of Dinosaurs, Godzilla and anime. Still enjoy sports sometimes.
Atchison, KS
Joined March 2011
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“You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.”
Hayao Miyazaki
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Travis Knight says the final battle in ‘WILDWOOD’ combines stop-motion, hand-drawn, and CG animation.
“It required us to use every single technique and technology that we’ve developed... but in the end, we want people to be enveloped in the emotion of the story.”
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Always very funny seeing normal people's reactions to this wonderful sickness
Just gotta say it, baby: Tracy Letts is my kind of #physicalmedia collector! ;) @thedigitalbits
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"Just because someone stumbles and loses their way, it doesn't mean they're lost forever. Sometimes, we all need a little help."
RIP to a truly legendary Professor X.
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Frank Herbert: “I think we should be wary of Power and the people it attracts. Governments and religions are systems that can be used by manipulative people to gain power.”
X user in 2026: “This movie is being made because Hollywood hates to see a man win.”
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Travis Knight says that LAIKA will never use generative AI in their films.
“AI is theft. It’s the ingestion of years and years and years of human creativity and ingenuity, regurgitated back. It has no humanity. It has no spirit.”
(Source: theplaylist.net/wildwood-tra…)
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Fascinating how King Ghidorah’s 1964 film debut and his 2019 MonsterVerse debut both feature a money shot pairing him with imagery associated with the majority religion of each film’s country of origin: Shintoism in the former, Christianity in the latter.
Wildwood is such a beautiful and breathtaking achievement. I was consistently in awe of what I was witnessing on screen. Laika’s crowning achievement in terms of the visual artistry on display. boxd.it/gVeKfP
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“Wildwood” director Travis Knight calls AI an “amazing piece of technology” but says, “I’m not embracing it at all.”
“I see technology as a tool, and we use technology at Laika. A pencil is technology, a paintbrush is technology, a 3D printer is technology. Technology is useful when you put it in the hands of people, when you put it in the hands of artists who can amplify their voice."
“Technology is not useful when it takes the place of the artist, and that’s the concern with generative AI,” he continued. “It’s an amazing piece of technology, but the concern is that when it supplants the artist, then we have an issue because the computer cannot speak about humanity at all. It doesn’t know what it feels like.”
variety.com/2026/film/column…
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Keep spreading the word, I have been doing my part by bringing this up to my non-cinephile friends and family. They had no clue it existed before I told them.
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New trailer for the live-action adaptation of ‘LOOK BACK’.
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda.
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the 2026 Oscar’s Best Picture and Best Director competition, explained
‘YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING’ will be submitted for Oscar consideration in the following categories:
• Best Picture
• Best Director
• Best Supporting Actress
• Best Documentary Feature
• Best Production Design
• Best Cinematography
• Best Costume Design
• Best Film Editing
• Best Makeup and Hairstyling
• Best Sound
• Best Original Score
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Laika’s first film in 7 years, ‘WILDWOOD,’ releases in theaters THIS WEEK.
• 16 years in development
• Rated PG-13 with a 139 minute runtime
• A young girl ventures into a magical forest to rescue her kidnapped baby brother
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this is such a bad way to engage with art and film. there’s such a value in watching media that is confronting things that challenge you or are exploring topics that feel...thorny and complex. it’s literally part of the human experience.
