For nearly 100 years, the animated movie as we know it has existed – an artform that, like live-action cinema, sprung from shorts and grew into a major medium in its own right. If the biggest ...

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The panel, featuring directors of some of the year’s most celebrated animated feature films ... Thompson, and Kemp Powers (“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”). In 2022, the lineup ...

It's been nearly three years since Spider-Man: No Way Home was released in theaters and we may have a good eighteen months or so before Spider-Man 4 finally hits the big screen. The hope is ...

Some estimate that around 800m people globally are animated about anime. Those unfamiliar with the genre often wonder what anime is. “Animation created in Japan” is the simple definition ...

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It’s entirely in the realm of possibility that we could one day see Andrew Garfield dangling from a skyscraper as Spider-Man again. This according to the actor himself, who told Esquire in an ...

An 88-year-old former boxer, Iwao Hakamada, has been acquitted by a Japanese court after a retrial for a quadruple murder that occurred in 1966. The Shizuoka District Court found that the evidence ...

The Shizuoka district court cleared Iwao Hakamada, 88, in a retrial of the murders of four people in the central Japanese region in 1966. It was sweet to hear the words "not guilty" in the ...

Japanese Man Acquitted of 1966 Murders After 45 Years on Death Row By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) -A Japanese man said to have spent the world's longest time on death row was acquitted of murder ...