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.

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

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

Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews 1927’s Roots at HOME

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

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

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

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

Aisha Al-Janabi is in conversation with Paul Allen, the festival manager of KinoFilm Festival

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Santiago Caicedo’s animated coming of age tale, Virus Tropical, proves to be a starkly simple slice of life fronted by terrific animation.

Review of Tehran Taboo; an immersive film of untold stories set in Tehran.