St. Marla's Journal

Frozen II is the sequel nobody asked for. Nobody. The first film became a classic and one of Disney’s staples in animation. For all the...

Weathering with You adds to writer/director Makoto Shinkai’s impressive resume. The animation is so visually striking that it’s sometimes...

JoJo Rabbit is a film with a formula nobody would expect to work. A wannabe 10-year-old Nazi whose imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler finds...

Production I.G. has an impressive filmography including every FLCL season, a short from Gotham Knight, and the ever-so popular Bunny Drop...

Promare is the debut film of Studio Trigger, an animation studio with a stellar track record from shows like Kill la Kill and Little...

Kingdom follows Xin, a slave who aspires to be the world’s greatest general alongside his friend Piao. Piao is drafted by the kingdom to...

The story of Luis Buñuel’s venture in the realm of documentary in the form of Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan, provides a provocative...

First and foremost, it is essential to say Cool World is not Who Framed Roger Rabbit? In any sense. Aside from both films blending...

A man fed up with his wife’s cooking becomes extremely enraged one day and he kills her and eats her instead. Then another woman, so on...

Satoshi Kon’s fourth and final film Paprika presents itself as a psychological thriller by way of an in-depth mystery that explores the...

*This is a review for the English dub of Galaxy Express 999* Space operas are notoriously difficult to execute. “Star Wars Episode IV -...

*This is a review for the Japanese dub of A Silent Voice* Naoko Yamada's film A Silent Voice, based on the manga of the same name by...

“Pokémon Detective Pikachu” came at a unique period in Pokémon’s career, the franchise was at an all-time high with the success of its...

Booksmart goes to great lengths to separate itself from other coming-of-age stories. This isn't 16 Candles, and it isn't Call Me by Your...

*This is a review for the English dub of “Only Yesterday”* Director Isao Takahata knew how to control any experiment he headed. In “My...

*This review is for the Japanese dub of Lu over the Wall* Masaaki Yuasa is an auteur who has become a softly whispered yet dominant...

To say that Tim Burton has an affinity for the realm of the strange would be an understatement. His films are the same amount dreary and...

It’s incredible to see how certain aspects of life change over time. Humans get older, hairier and their frame of thought becomes more...

It’s always intriguing to see the different ways film manifests itself. There is the family friendly CG wonders that Pixar creates. There...