#Animating Ugly: The Wonderful Weirdness of ‘Rango’

“#Animating Ugly: The Wonderful Weirdness of ‘Rango’” Home Columns Movies Meg Shields June 26, 2020 Here’s a video essay celebrating the bizarre imagination of ‘Rango’. Welcome to The Queue — your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Rango is something of a paradox. On the one hand, Gore Verbinski‘s animated tale…

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#‘The Cuphead Show!’ Sneak Peek: Netflix Teases the Nostalgic Design of Its Video Game Adaptation

“#‘The Cuphead Show!’ Sneak Peek: Netflix Teases the Nostalgic Design of Its Video Game Adaptation” Netflix’s upcoming animated series The Cuphead Show! has a bit of an unusual background: its retro Max Fleischer-inspired style would have you thinking that it’s a modern remake of a 1930s classic, when in fact it’s an adaptation of a…

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#‘Scott Pilgrim’ Animated Series Being Considered, According to Edgar Wright

“#‘Scott Pilgrim’ Animated Series Being Considered, According to Edgar Wright” While a live-action sequel to Edgar Wright‘s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World seems very unlikely at this point, there still might be more Pilgrim on the way. According to Wright, there are “some plans” to continue the story in animation form. Wright adds that there’s nothing official…

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#‘Over the Moon’ Trailer: Netflix’s Gorgeous Animated Musical Explores the Legend of the Chinese Moon Goddess

“#‘Over the Moon’ Trailer: Netflix’s Gorgeous Animated Musical Explores the Legend of the Chinese Moon Goddess” Netflix has been steadily becoming a major threat to Disney and Pixar’s animation domination. After the streamer’s phenomenal Klaus became an unexpected darling at the awards circuit last year (and looked like it might steal the Oscar from Pixar, for…

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#‘Chicken Run 2’ Lands at Netflix, a New ‘Mission: Impossible’-Style Heist is Teased

“#‘Chicken Run 2’ Lands at Netflix, a New ‘Mission: Impossible’-Style Heist is Teased” Today marks the exact 20th anniversary of Aardman Animation’s stop-motion animated comedy Chicken Run hitting theaters, a movie that still holds the honor of being the highest grossing stop-motion animated movie of all time. To celebrate, Aardman has announced that Netflix has…

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