Tag: Tiger

  • Roar. Dir. Noel Marshall. Film Consortium, Filmways Pictures. 1981

    Roar. Dir. Noel Marshall. Film Consortium, Filmways Pictures. 1981

    “No Animals were harmed in the making of this film. 70 cast and crew members were”. A film tagline that instantly grabs your attention. The Drafthouse re-release in 2015 coined this moniker for the 1981 box-office blunder[1] “Roar”, which lacks plot, conventionality and, as the curious tagline suggests: a lack of safety measures for the actors…

  • 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…