Hayao Miyazaki returns to screens with The Boy and the Heron, filled with adventure, sincerity and whimsicality it marks itself as the quintessential Miyazaki film

Director of Manchester Animation Festival sits down to talk about this years programme and the threat of distributors and AI in the world of animation

Manchester Animation Festival is back at HOME cinema with everything from the long-awaited Chicken Run sequel to Lego stop motion workshops

Both quirky and heartwarming, this mockumentary/stop-motion hybrid delivers profound musings on loss, community, and change, with a healthy dose of laughs on the side

Theatre Edtor Jay Darcy reviews 101 Dalmatians at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre – a new musical based on the novel of the same name, which was supposed to premiere in 2020 – starring Kate Fleetwood

For Star Wars day Investigations Editor Joe McFadden describes why Star Wars: The Clone Wars was so important to him growing up and explains what makes the show so impactful over a decade later.

Danish animated documentary is a therapeutic and cathartic story of an openly gay Afghan refugee

Mila Filipova reviews My Favourite War as a part of the Manchester Animation Festival, held at HOME

Don’t let the bright colours and anthropomorphised animals fool you – this is Pixar’s most mature feature to date

Dragon Rider is a German take on the concept of humans and dragons coexisting in one world, but fails to add anything innovative to it

These animated marvels have long led innovation in their field but how will they rank in our top ten series for style, sound and creative potential?

Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews 1927’s Roots at HOME

Opinon Editor Nimo Omer attended the preview event at HOME for Mimi and the Mountain Dragon, which premieres on BBC1 on Boxing Day

Deputy Film Editor, Josh Sandy, previews the highlights of the Manchester Animation Festival ahead of its much anticipated 5th edition

Manchester’s Everyman Cinema St John’s is hosting the Stealing Sheep “BIG WOWS” Video Series Premiere on Wednesday, 13 November

It seems like every week there’s a different festival happening in Manchester; here’s a selection of our favourite Mancunian film festivals

Will Robinson reviews Netflix’s aptly named Love, Death & Robots, the latest take on the growingly popular anthology-style of television.

Matthew Johnston reviews Welcome To Marwen, which is so poor he wishes he entered his own imaginary world

The Disney sequel works for both kids and adults, due to intelligent writing, intricate and funny world-building, and excellent voice acting

The Manchester Animation Festival 2018 shared animations created in AniJam; a 48-hour animation challenge, based on the theme ‘Together.’