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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 22h

#2026inanimation The Mandalorian and Grogu bombed at the box office, so Disney’s LEGO recap of the series for folks to be entertained with a few jokes while getting caught up before watching the movie on Disney+ becomes more functional than its creators probably imagined.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#2026inanimation Isla Monstro has the same sense of humor as the guy at a party who explains why each one of the endless jokes he tells is “funny.” It’s animated like Aqua Team, but feels much cheaper. And the script is a dud. I’m surprised bro voice actors appeared in this.

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Never Did It Podcast @neverdiditpod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Happy-Go-Lucky" introduced the world to Poppy, who sees the world as it is but still exudes positivity. "This is England" introduced us to Shaun, who struggles with bullying but finds solace with a gang of Skinheads. We dig into these 2 paths toward acceptance. With guest @kevinford.bsky.social!

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British Movies and the Two Paths to Finding Yourself

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#2026inanimation The Last Blossom had a lot to overcome. I came into my screening tired and grumpy. I’d purchased my ticket weeks earlier, and the screening window at the time was only set to be two days. So I forced myself to go only to discover that the subtitles were appearing 5 seconds early.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

YOU SOUND LIKE YOU'RE FROM LONDON! We're getting close to the end of our look at a century of British cinema, with Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky" and Shane Meadows' This is England. Guest @kevinford.bsky.social joined us for this one!

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British Movies and the Two Paths to Finding Yourself

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#2026inanimation Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames is my first Gintama, so I didn’t know there was fourth wall breaking. It was a nice way to ease in, and I also liked how referential it was to other anime (and to the Simpsons, though I think that’s only in the English sub and dub).

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Kevin Ford @kevinford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Delighted to be on today's episode of Never Did It @neverdiditpod.bsky.social to chat Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky", a film I was very happy to rewatch, and to discover Shane Meadows' "This is England." open.spotify.com/episode/5NT6...

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2000s British Film: "Happy-Go-Lucky" and "This is England"

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#2026inanimation Bouchra basically feels like what Hiro Murai would make if he was a furry. I say that as a big appreciator of Hiro Murai who doesn’t know anything about furries.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#2026inanimation The Weird Kidz gets off to about as rough a start as you’d expect from a movie with a Team Xtreme-style Z in the title. Things pick up in the second half as it leans away from the forced ‘90s dialogue and leans into a more folk horror story.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#2026inanimation Without its theme song, the Day You Begin is a perfectly acceptable children’s special that would probably be effective in helping kids feel confident before starting kindergarten. Its cast of kids have diverse anxieties, come from diverse backgrounds,

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He doesn’t want me to watch this mouse propaganda #catcity @deafcrocodile.bsky.social

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#2026inanimation The jump in visual quality from I Am What I Am to this sequel (called the Kung Fu Kid in the U.S.) is pretty wild. The characters still look kind of plastic, but the lighting, environments, and movement are all immersive.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#2026inanimation I want to give Netflix animation the benefit of the doubt because they brought Samuel to the U.S., but everything else they’ve offered this year has been mid to bad. And the Ribbon Hero is pretty bad. I’ll start with the one positive: it’s fun to look at.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#2026inanimation At every turn, I thought Your Letter was going to go the obvious route. So-ri was bullied, so I assumed the movie would culminate in her getting her confidence to stand up to bullies again. Dong-soon is grumpy about his missing friend, so I assume said friend died a while back.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can’t express how much I needed to come home to this after the day I’ve has. @deafcrocodile.bsky.social

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#2026inanimation With the exception of my college-era Kingdom Hearts fandom, it's been quite a while since I've checked in with Mickey, and this year Disney gave us Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+: Mickey’s Country Farm. 3D Mickey seems tough to render, and I absolutely hate the way Mickey and Minnie’s ears

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#2026inanimation YouTube has made it possible for more indie animators than ever to get their work out there. Some of those animators, like Gooseworx and Vivziepop, have parlayed that exposure into larger success. If Sinking Road is any indication, I don’t see that happening for

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#2026inanimation If the Chinese keep up this schedule of sending us an animated banger every six months or so I’ll be extremely happy. Like Ne Zha 2 and Nobody before it, this caught me off guard. But now that I’ve been fooled thrice, it’s time for me to start expecting that Chinese animation that

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#2026inanimation Hotori: Simply Wishing for Hope, released in the US for the first time 20 years after its Japan release, has within it interesting ideas: the value of biological consciousness given it deteriorates vs. the value of artificial consciousness if

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I made this game my whole personality for like 2 months as a kid.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#2026inanimation At first glance, the pace of Rosa & the Stone Troll seems odd. Most of its 75-minutes are spent avoiding the main conflict, and then it rushes to a conclusion. But towards the end of the movie I realized that it was taking a page out of the early Disney playbook, as features like

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Never Did It Podcast @neverdiditpod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

John Mackenzie & Barrie Keeffe birthed Bob Hoskins' Harry Shand and created modern British gangster film. George Harrison bailed out "Withnail and I" so that Richard E Grant could become an inspiration for British slackers for decades. Hosted by Brad Garoon and Jake Ziegler, with guest Gary Adair!

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If you like Edgar Wright or Guy Ritchie, start with "Withnail and I" and "The Long Good Friday"

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#2026inanimation Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time is a strange artifact of Japan’s impulse to adapt every manga ever into an anime series. Not every arc made it into the TV show because of scheduling constraints, so the cut episodes are clumsily lumped together here for Japanese theaters.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#2026inanimation Under Julien Grande’s art direction and Michel Hazanavicius’a leadership, Jean-Claude Grumberg’s Holocaust folktale, the Most Precious of Cargoes, is realized in striking animation with emotional heft. Its story is simple and its messages are plainly stated. The way the narrative

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#2026inanimation I did my homework for the Mobile Suit Gundam and Reincarnated Slime movies, and didn’t get much benefit from that. So I went into this almost blind. It was advertised as a sneak peak at the first three episode of the show’s final season, and yet somehow I was able to tap in.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#2026inanimation Maya, Give Me a Title is what you’d expect from the description: Michel Gondry brings his quirky imagination to fairy tales about his daughter. A couple of the segments utilize kid logic well, especially the escalating tales of a ketchup ocean and cat thieves.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#2026inanimation Henryk Sienkiewicz’s novel Quo Vadish has at least 6 film adaptations, most famously with Peter Ustinov in the role of Nero. Humiliatingly, this garbage is the first version I’ve seen. I have very mixed feelings about Unreal Engine movies. PlayStation 3-level cutscenes tend to

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#2026inanimation The dialogue in the Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act is so bad. The performances are abysmal. The premise & reveal are potentially interesting, but rather than confront eternity, the story focuses on identity & friendship. That’s not surprising given the previous 7 episodes,

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#2026inanimation The Proud Princess has more in common with the later Shrek sequels than it does with the work of Jiri Trnka, but I don’t think Beran and Lisý shamed themselves in shadow of their Czech animation predecessors.

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Never Did It Podcast @neverdiditpod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ken Loach set the bar high with his story of a boy and his falcon (kestrel) in "Kes", and Franc Roddam brought the Who's "Quadrophenia" to the big screen, busting out an epic gang fight featuring hundreds of extras in his first movie! Hosted by Brad Garoon & Jake Ziegler, with guest Bob Gibson.

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Nobody does Coming-of-Age movies like the Brits

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#2026inanimation Death Does Not Exist is first and foremost a gorgeous visual exercise. Félix Dufour-Laperrière sees himself primarily as a visual artist. The way he describes his process of layering real paint on paper to create the one-of-a-kind (well, the Mononoke series is doing a similar thing)

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#2026inanimation Super Charlie is Jack Jack from the Incredibles, but the animation is uglier and the story is boring. The cast employs voices with such far-flung accents that it’s clear this was dubbed in a rushed process.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#2026inanimation Despite the manic way it rushed through the second act and the throwaway “air bender” lackeys (though even they led to the cool Robo-Toph moment), Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender is a very well-animated and easy-to-watch sequel to the original show.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#2026inanimation with Hoffmaniada getting a U.S. release this year thanks to Deaf Crocodile, I was curious what the rest of the Russian animation landscape looked like. Tied Up got a digital release in the U.S. this year, and it's a typical, episodic, ensemble road movie.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#2026inanimation If you’re going to make a crybaby “political satire,” filled with nothing but grievance and starring (and exalting) an actual, in-office politician… well, you shouldn’t do that because that is humiliating propaganda.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#2026inanimation Bouchra is streaming on MUBI, and it’s awesome and you should watch it, so it’s jumping the line a bit. Ever wondered what would happen if Hiro Murai was a lesbian furry? That’s what a big appreciator of Hiro Murai who doesn’t know anything about furries thinks of Bouchra.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#2026inanimation Chun Tae-il: A Flame That Lives On is about a cultural movement and important figure in Korea that I have only a Wikipedia page-level knowledge about. There's my caveat before I say that this movie sat poorly with me. This is a hagiography of a person who died by suicide as part of

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Never Did It Podcast @neverdiditpod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Professor returns as our guest to discuss the 1960s in UK Cinema. We talk Best Picture winner #TomJones & Michael Powell's #PeepingTom. We liked one of them much more than the other - listen to find out which! #NeverDidIt #PaulRudd

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The Best Picture winner that played at being shocking vs. the bomb that actually shocked

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#2026inanimation All I want from Minions movies is to be weird as fuck, frantically paced, and not boring. Unfortunately, Minions & Monsters becomes boring when the monsters arrive. The Minions work, the movie references are terrific, but the second half of the movie is a dud.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#2026inanimation I am intensely not the audience for The Dangers in My Heart: The Movie, but even with that in mind this did nothing to change my opinion that anime compilation films are just cynical ads dressed up as theatrical films.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#2026inanimation Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition is really just a long episode of the Simpsons, but it’s feature length by the Academy’s standards and was promoted as a streaming special, so I decided to check back in with my what was once my favorite TV family.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#2026inanimation Fureru moseys along easily enough thanks to its YA melodrama over intensely low-stakes events, even with shallow characters and confused themes. If you can rationalize to yourself that the titular yellow critter is meant to represent something coherent,

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#2026inanimation I found Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise frustrating, because it has a terrific energy but it also has all the problems that anime film sequels of anime series have. Here, the chief one is an inability to properly prioritize. The movie is an insane two hours long,

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#2026inanimation I probably should have watched the series first, since the whole run of the show is only like 80 minutes. But I quickly got the hang of the humor in Me & Roboco: The Movie and understood at least 40% of the in-jokes around anime in general. And it’s pretty funny!

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#2026inanimation I don’t like the animation style in Bartali's Bicycle (people complain about Invincible cutting corners, but this is what that show would look like if they REALLY half assed it) and the script and performances are really bad.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#2026inanimation I was relieved that the Passenger from Ganora had stock explosion effects so I knew that it was poorly made, but not AI generated. The rest of the movie is a collection of IP theft, nonsensical plotting and inconsistent characters. Characters are annoying and mean to one another,

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Never Did It Podcast @neverdiditpod.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Join us for some delightful 50s British comedies, was we cover Lavender Hill Mob and Hobson’s Choice with our very special guest @jamessanford.bsky.social! #neverdidit #alecguinness

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England's funniest movies are 70 years old.

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Brad Garoon @bradgaroon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#2026inanimation I don't think I need to say a lot about Toy Story 5. It's been covered to death. But I will say that while I felt Toy Story 4 made the case for the series remaining a trilogy, Toy Story 5 convinced me that with the right stories, they could make these movies forever.

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