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Chris Butler & Sam Fell Bring PARANORMAN to Life

October 31, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Chris Butler & Sam Fell Bring PARANORMAN to Life

When I spoke with Chris Butler and Sam Fell on July 27, 2012, the conversation was a wonderful mix of whimsy and erudition as they explained the finer points of bringing a stop-motion film to life. The two shared the directing duties on PARANORMAN, working from a script by Butler.  What I was most interested in,… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, curses, Laika, stop-motion, witch, zombies

HOLES

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

HOLES

There is an attitude among some filmmakers that children’s films should be anything but sophisticated, rather, they should be simple in theme and execution and excruciating for anyone over the age of five. Not just the flicks for little kids, either, as evidenced by such recent mush as WHAT A GIRL WANTS. And for those… Read More »

Tagged With: Andrew Davis, author, book to film, buried treasure, casting, cinema, curses, desert, digging holes, director, fantasy, filling in holes, film, HOLES, lizards, Louis Sachar, movie, mystery, narrative, poisonous lizards, racism, screenwriter, Shia LeBeouf, sun screen, UNDER SIEGE 3, YA literature, young adult

PARANORMAN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Laika Studio’s latest animated film, PARANORMAN, is a story with heart, soul, and a killer funny bone. The humor ranges from the broad to the subtle, and even ventures into that most dangerous of territories, the poignant, and it does so with a sure hand, backed up with an astounding feat of animation. Norman (Kodi… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, curses, Laika, stop-motion, witch, zombies

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