Category: HAR: Transformation

  • Kubo and the Two Strings. Dir. Travis Knight. Laika. 2016

    Kubo and the Two Strings. Dir. Travis Knight. Laika. 2016

    Figure 1: Kubo lifted in the air by wings made of origami birds. Kubo and the Two Strings follows a boy whose life is made even more extraordinary when a perilous adventure, which his mother has tried to save him from, accidentally finds him. Kubo can tell stories using the magical music of his shamisen…

  • Sonnie’s Edge. Dir. Dave Wilson. Netflix. 2019

    Sonnie’s Edge. Dir. Dave Wilson. Netflix. 2019

    That fear of death. Do you feel it? Are you scared now? – Sonnie Content warning: sexual assault, female violence, abuse Netflix’s animated anthology, Love Death & Robots, first aired in 2019, enticing viewers through a display of episodically unique art styles and stories. Created by David Fincher and Tim Miller, the series provided a creative leeway…

  • An American Werewolf in London. Dir. John Landis. Universal Pictures. 1981.

    An American Werewolf in London. Dir. John Landis. Universal Pictures. 1981.

    “The wolf’s bloodline must be severed; the last remaining werewolf must be destroyed. It’s you David.” An American tourist, traumatised and alone wakes up in a London hospital after an attack on the Yorkshire Moors. His newly cursed body drifts between human and wolf as his deceased friend haunts him in limbo, telling him he…