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What Went Wrong with the Original Super Mario Bros. Movie?

The Super Mario Bros. movie (the first one, from the 80s), is infamously terrible. Multiple ‘Worst Films of All Time’ lists terrible. When considering just how safe the recent animated mega-hit Mario movie played things, how could the creators of

Why Soviet Animation Is Inspiring

There’s a sort of idea about what a Soviet animation is. Obtuse, depressing, grim, rainy, deeply culturally specific. They’re allegorical, or nonlinear, or silent or or or… This notion is the fallout of Yuri Norstein’s monopoly on public interest in