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For this month’s streaming recommendations, we’ve gathered a selection of animated films, many of which are out of print and only available online. For this month’s roundup of streaming recommendations, we’ve decided to highlight some great but generally lesser-known animated films, many of which either aren’t available on physical media or are out of print. There are titles both classic and contemporary, coming from a wide range of countries and genres. The Girl Without Hands The story of the...

Neon Genesis Evangelion, a massively successful Japanese television series with a wide influence and divisive plot, is now on Netflix. Netflix’s grand scheme to massively expand its content library includes scaling up its arsenal of both original and licensed anime. Many of the shows the platform has been getting the rights for have healthy fanbases, but only one acquisition warranted its own dramatic announcement late last year, even though the series in question originally came out in the mid ’90s...

Ezra claytan Daniels and Ben passmore's graphic novel BTTM FDRs blends discussions around race relations, cultural appropriation, and urban injustice with body horror and an eerie plot. Writer Ezra claytan...

With the influential mature comics line ending after more than 25 years, here are 10 series, both famous and lesser-known, which demonstrate some of the best it had to offer. Last week, DC Comics announced that it was shuttering its different imprints and consolidating all its titles under one brand. Notably, this marks the end of Vertigo Comics, the publisher’s august banner for mature series and graphic novels. While Vertigo’s days of breaking new ground for comics have been past for some time now, this definitive end is still a bittersweet occasion...

The Netflix prequel series to the 1982 Jim Henson film faithfully embodies both the craft and spirit of the original. Though best known for creating the worldwide-beloved Muppets, master puppeteer Jim Henson has also earned a cult following over the decades for the less mainstream diversions in his career. Movies like Labyrinth (1986) and The Dark Crystal (1982) didn’t create a huge stir when they were initially released, but have since grown dedicated fanbases. Adolescents in particular have gravitated...

This year, the world’s biggest film festival is bringing a new documentary on Merce Cunningham, an adaptation of the art heist novel The Goldfinch, Agnès Varda’s final movie, and so much more. We’re on the eve of the Toronto International Film Festival, one of the biggest cinematic events of the year. Hundreds of thousands of movie lovers from around the world will descend on Toronto to watch hundreds of films, which range from imminent Oscar contenders to the latest works from arthouse masters to obscure indie titles...

The movie makes its world of 1969 Los Angeles feel incredibly lived-in, not merely a look back but a transporting experience. Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood is a period piece so painstakingly constructed that it shames the rest of the genre. Its attention to detail goes beyond the granular into nearly the microscopic, in the process drawing attention to how flimsy the tropes of most other historical films and TV shows are. Where the usual movie may use one or two pieces of advertising to mark...

Before 2016, Isao Takahata’s Only Yesterday was considered the “lost” Ghibli film. One day, Hayao Miyazaki will die, and with him so will the renowned animation studio he co-founded, Studio Ghibli. When that day eventually arrives, countless images will play out in the minds of animation fans worldwide. Totoro, up in the sky, his mouth wide open, soaring while carrying a tiny umbrella; Ran, riding a giant snow-white wolf into battle, protecting the only life she’s ever known; little Chihiro trying...

Filmmaker Denis Do used interviews with his mother to craft the animated film Funan, an affecting portrait of a family swept up in the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime was responsible for the deaths of almost 2 million people between 1975 and 1979. Most of those deaths occurred in labor camps, where they were executed or succumbed to exhaustion, malnutrition, or disease. This period has served as the basis for a number of films, including the Oscar-winning The Killing...

This romantic fantasy shows that while Chinese animation still has a long way to go, it is continuing to make progress after decades of lagging behind in relevance. White Snake, the latest from Beijing-based studio Light Chaser Animation, in collaboration with Warner Bros., is an origin story to one of China’s most iconic folktales, the Legend of the White Snake. The story has been adapted numerous times on stage, radio, and screens large and small — the most iconic being the 1958 film, Panda and the White Serpent, the first color Japanese anime film...