Send us a tip using our annonymous form. A young girl, Robyn, accompanies her father from England to the small town of Kilkenny in order to eradicate the wolves that pester the village from the forest fringe, but the warring factions aren’t as easily separated as superstition would lead her to believe. Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart/ Luxembourg, Ireland, UK/ 2020/ 100 mins. Elsewhere, the film’s plentiful wolves are more reminiscent of Golden Age Disney animation than of Miyazaki, their exaggerated, angular proportions and goofy mugs infusing the film with yet another layer of comforting, yesteryear familiarity. 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Narrative Feature Plus, each month, one subscriber can win a prize sponsored by Apex Interactive! 76 DAYS (DIR Hao Wu, Weixi Chen, Anonymous), Short Film The final film in Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart’s informal Irish folklore trilogy (following The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea), Wolfwalkers is also arguably their most gorgeous effort to date. In Wolfwalkers, apprentice wolf hunter Robyn journeys to Ireland with her wolf-hunting father to help wipe out the last remaining wolf pack. For 76 Days, directors Wu Hao and Chen Weixi filmed inside Wuhan’s hospitals as the city of 11 million go on lockdown in on January 23, 2020. Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. The final film in Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart’s informal Irish folklore trilogy (following The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea), Wolfwalkers is also arguably their most gorgeous effort to date. 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AFI Fest on Friday announced the winners of its jury and audience awards, with marquee honors going to Secret of Kells duo Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart’s animated Wolfwalkers… The Irish Post delivers all the latest Irish news to our online audience around the globe. I started replaying it not long ago (still waiting on a ME3) wow now I want to tour the Japanese... Start typing to see results or hit ESC to close, Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet has Abed in it, so it can’t be that bad, Apple TV+ knows how to get subscribers: Jason Momoa, Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time review, Two Assassin’s Creed Valhalla expansiøns and free cøntent updätes cønfirmed for 2021, Roxy and the Quantum Clones of Euphorion-VI [EXCLUSIVE! is also arguably their most gorgeous effort to date. 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And in one standout sequence, a wall torch becomes a marvel of retro animation, geometric blocks of red and white shifting slightly, in almost 8-bit fashion, to create a flickering effect. Wolfwalkers is a hand-drawn animated film from the director of Song of the Sea and The Secret of Kells and I’m sensing a theme. That Wolfwalkers sometimes frustrates in its refusal to shed its limiting apologue texture is a testament to its reliable transcendence elsewhere. Elsewhere, the film’s plentiful wolves are more reminiscent of Golden Age Disney animation than of Miyazaki, their exaggerated, angular proportions and goofy mugs infusing the film with yet another layer of comforting, yesteryear familiarity. Having left Ireland for Afghanistan in their lovely 2017 film The Breadwinner, Kilkenny-based animation studio Cartoon Saloon return to their homeland for their fourth feature Wolfwalkers.Even by their very high standards, it’s a howling triumph.