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Yes, we know Animation is not really a genre; nevertheless, it makes sense to categorize animated films in a way that makes it easy for fans to find them.

Running Time: Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake live the fugitive life in IN TIME.
A world where everyone remains young and pretty forever? No, it’s not the CW prime-time schedule, it’s IN TIME, Andrew Niccol’s latest weaving of science-fiction speculation and wry social commentary. Imagining a civilization in which time literally is money — minutes, hours, [...]

Our listeners make their voices heard in this final episode of the Ultra-Lounge (at least in this incarnation): We hear from our listener in Latvia, who gives us some insight into his life; another listener rushes to the defense of the Dino De Laurentiis KING KONG; and an e-mail addressing how DREAM HOUSE’s trailer actually [...]

Street Tougher: Adult Swim's BLACK DYNAMITE.
Come 2012, Adult Swim is going to get bad-ass. In honor of the grand and sometimes delirious world of blaxploitation, they’ve latched onto the 2009 feature satire, BLACK DYNAMITE, and are bringing it to the video screen as half-hour, animated series.
With the film’s Michael Jai White and Byron Minns continuing [...]

DC, Marvel, Dark Horse all claimed significant shares of turf at this year’s New York Comic Con, but only STAR WARS staked out its own universe, incorporating numerous vendors within the confines of its expansive area (including Hallmark, for all your limited-edition Xmas ornament needs).
And there in the midst of it was Ashley Eckstein — [...]

BEING HUMAN star to voice resurrected Sith character on animated CLONE WARS

Cinefantastique hit the floor of New York Comic Con 2011 and discovered… people. Lots ‘n’ lots of people. NYCC sold out for the entire weekend, and the upshot was that even the isolated reaches of the show floor became navigational nightmares at certain points during the day. Woe betide the mortal wandering Artists Alley who [...]

It’s that time of the year again, and if you’re a fan of Asian films like I am, then that eclectic far out martial skill called the 10,000 bee technique should not be bugging you but alarming you to the magnetic, electric and eccentric buzz of Fant-Asia movies that will haze, pseudo-faze and amaze you [...]

Dean Venture succombs to the inexorable pull of the Floyd Hole in THE VENTURE BROS.
Yes, Cinefantastique Online was at the just-wrapped New York Comic Con 2011, and we’re going to be bringing you tons o’ goodies — in both audio and video form — over the coming days (and weeks!). But we figured we should [...]

BEWARE THE BATMAN in CGI, Claymation Shorts, coming to Cartoon Network.

Primetime Television Stars Nathan Fillion & Tim Daly
Join heroic cast of JUSTICE LEAGUE DOOM

So Real, You Can Almost Smell the Lion Breath: A beloved moment from THE LION KING 3D.
There were no new genre films in theaters this weekend, but there was one old one in a shiny new, 3D coat: THE LION KING 3D, which just so happened to top this week’s box-office. With a prescience befitting [...]

Dr. John Zoidberg, “M”D? Fry, Leela, and Hermes may regret their treatment under his claws.

Couples Night in the Cockpit: A moment from Winsor McCay's THE FLYING HOUSE.
Think of it as one spiritual brother reaching out to another over the span of almost an entire century: Bill Plympton — the innovative animator known for his edgy surrealism and distinctive, hand-drawn style — has decided to rejuvenate the [...]