Category: Animation

How Many More Continuities Do We Need If Godzilla Minus Zero Brings It All Together?

With the animated Netflix series, Shin Godzilla, and the latest pair of films culminating in Godzilla Minus Zero, most people know they’re separate works in alternate universes. But what if they aren’t?

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After watching Godzilla Minus Zero, I believe it is time TOHO should consider reorganizing the Reiwa era to give the Gojira films a sense of where they belong, and if they are continuous (somehow). The latest title sounds like a countdown to something, suggesting the studio is ready to relaunch this franchise in a grande way. Hideaki Anno’s Shin Godzilla could be a beginning. Compare its scene of corpses on the reptile’s tail with the latest film’s revelation about victims splashed with Godzilla’s blood, and there’s a creepy idea brewing!

What I enjoyed about this latest film is how writer-director Takashi Yamazaki fuses everything together. He knows the material and most likely loves the Shōwa era more. From invaders from space, mad scientists, and crazy inventions, what’s offered in his take gets a lot of clever updates and although we no longer have men in rubber suits performing, what’s presented is still huge!

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Welcome to Disney’s The Haunted Mansion Stray Spirits! Won’t You Sit for a Spell?

When mortals dare to visit Disney’s Haunted Mansion Stray Spirits will linger and what this comic offers is a YA style continuation with … well, spirits!

The Haunted Mansion: Stray Spirits coverTOKYOPOP

When collecting comic books about Disney’s Haunted Mansion, there can never be enough! Even post-Halloween, the manga publisher’s The Haunted Mansion: Stray Spirits offers a relatable story about a young girl who just needs attention.

Sammie Crowley’s story should appeal to readers who make Disney’s Haunted Mansion a tradition during this time of year and beyond. Whether they’re boarding the ride, reading a book or collecting, this attraction holds plenty of appeal for occult lovers.

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The Beast of Mossy Bottom: Four Hilarious Reasons Ewe Will Love Shaun the Sheep

Aardman’s expressive flock delivers plenty of laughs in this kid-friendly Halloween romp. Not everything has to be scary, and Shaun the Sheep The Beast of Mossy Bottom nicely gives fans young and old something to guffaw at. And we got news too about the home video release:

Shaun the Sheep The Beast of Mossy Bottom DVD
Available to preorder on Amazon USA now

GKIDS & StudioCanal
Available on VOD
Coming to Blu-ray and DVD January 26, 2027.

As a kid-friendly film for the season, Shaun the Sheep The Beast of Mossy Bottom brings a little scare to its quiet hamlet. Shaun has come a long way since his introduction in Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (1995). That little sheep went on to lead his own TV series in 2007, with the Farmer, Bitzer the dog and the flock turning life into anything but a quiet country retreat. Aardman built this world around visual gags and expressive characters. Nobody needs a proper conversation for us to understand who’s causing trouble.

The leap to features gave that mischief more room to roam. Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) took the flock to the big city, while Farmageddon (2019) brought an alien visitor to the countryside. For someone who loves silent films like I do, the appeal is easy to understand. A look, a gesture or a badly timed mishap can carry the joke. That’s nothing to bleat at, pardon the pun.

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Don’t You Forget About The Weird Kidz…. Life Can Be Full of Regrets Afterwards!

When The Weird Kidz knows what it wants to be in its EC Comics style movie poster, everything else about this animated nightmare coming to life simply falls into place!

The Weird Kidz 2022 Poster
After the summer Embrace the Weird Tour, the gang is ready for what’s next, a theatrical run and now streaming on your favourite service.

Now out on VOD is The Weird Kidz, an animated film that feels like The Breakfast Club meets Them! No detention brings these kids together. They’re heading past the highway and into the dark desert just to get away. Whatever’s in the air, they’re going to find out. There will be things to stop them cold and make them scream, “Is this heaven or hell?”

Okay, I’m being vague to avoid spoiling the story. High-school rebel Wyatt (Ellar Coltrane) and his girlfriend Mary (Sydney Wharton) might think they’re getting some private time, but that isn’t the case. Along for the ride are Dug (Tess Passero), Wyatt’s younger brother, and his pals Fatt (Brian Ceely) and Mel (Glenn Bolton). A few of these lads take an interest in Mary too. They’re at that awkward stage of growing up, but thankfully she can mostly keep them at bay.  Continue reading “Don’t You Forget About The Weird Kidz…. Life Can Be Full of Regrets Afterwards!”

Welcome to My Nightmare! Or is it Welcome to Ghost Mansion with Alice Cooper Leading the Charge?

Finding tenants is easy when you welcome the dead. Getting them to pay rent is another matter, and Welcome to Ghost Mansion turns that predicament into a spooky, surprisingly sweet comedy.

Welcome to Ghost Mansion Manga Cover
Available to purchase on Amazon USA (Volumes One to Three)

Titan Manga

If Welcome to Ghost Mansion (訳アリ心霊マンション, Wakeari Shinrei Manshon) ever happens to get an animated adaptation, I can imagine it being something like Maison Ikkoku. Although the setups differ, there are some amusing parallels: the building is a worn-down apartment complex whose residents are hardly conventional. They are spirits! The resident manager, Kaoru Shinonome, is hardly fazed by that, and rather than try to convince the living to share the space with the undead, her advertising welcomes spirits who need a place to stay. No, this story isn’t Hotel Transylvania. There’s no young daughter coming of age here, but there is a family gradually coming together.

There’s no big threat yet, but across the three volumes released so far in English, I’m finding that this supernatural comedy has room to grow. In fact, the original Japanese edition is still ongoing as of October 2026, with six volumes, and the English publisher is moving quickly to get the first four volumes out this year. The other two may well be planned for later in 2027 to keep pace.

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The Legend, The Man, Don Bluth Somewhere Out There, A Man Ahead of His Time

The man behind The Secret of Nimh is a legend! In Don Bluth Somewhere Out There, we will soon see how this mind works and more!

Don Bluth Somewhere Out ThereComing to Amazon Prime: Nov 20, 2026
Other Platforms: Dec 4, 2026

The filmmakers behind the acclaimed documentary I Am Big Bird (movie review), has a new documentary, and this time, they are focusing on a man ahead of his time. In Don Bluth: Somewhere Out There, Dave LaMattina and Chad Walker will be looking at the life and times of one of animation’s most influential and uncompromising artists. Some may only know him for the groundbreaking interactive animated video game Dragon’s Lair, but others, he’s the creative mind behind fond favourites like The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time and Anastasia. His distinctive story telling approach and animation style says it all.

From the Press Release:

An early animation prodigy, Bluth dreamed of working for Disney and achieved that goal at just 18 years old when he was hired to work on Sleeping Beauty during his freshman year at BYU. Following the death of Walt Disney, however, Bluth became increasingly concerned about the direction of the studio. Along with fellow animators Gary Goldman and John Pomeroy, he ultimately left Disney and set out to build an independent alternative to the animation giant.

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