Tag: Netflix

October 26, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Vampire in the Garden is a girl-meets-girl story, set in a wintry wonderland. One girl is human, the other a vampire, but they share a longing to escape their world of war and death. It’s very plainly a girls’ love story, though some viewers may complain that it can’t fully speak its […]

June 10, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. John Lasseter, director of Toy Story, told a story about his first brush with computer animation. It was when he was a young animator at Disney, and fired up by the new technology; he wanted to make a hybrid movie with hand-animated characters and CG backgrounds. He pitched his ideas to the […]

May 23, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. I’ve previously reviewed seasons one and two of Netflix’s anthology series Love, Death and Robots, and found it an interesting if erratic mix of adult animation and real SF. It was at its best when it transcended its origins as a sex and violence shocker. Standout episodes included “Zima Blue,” a post-human […]

November 18, 2021 · 0 comments

by Jeremy Clarke. Angels tell people the date and time of their death, then demons come and cart people off to Hell, generating a circus of fundamentalist, religious activity. The new six-part Netflix series Hellbound (2021) from South Korea’s Yeon Sang-ho, creator of zombie outings Seoul Station (2016) and Train to Busan (2016), began life […]

May 27, 2021 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Netflix has dropped a new batch of episodes of Love, Death and Robots, its anthology adult animation series of short stories mixing SF, horror and humour. Compared to its first season (reviewed here), it’s gone for quality over quantity, and that’s to the good. There are eight episodes, compared to eighteen in […]