Sharon Autenrieth

Every so often it’s good to push ourselves in our film viewing. This month, we’ve opted to push ourselves all the way to China. China, and its surrounding applicable countries, as the loosey-goosey parameters for this edition of ZekeFilm Film Admissions is (as you can see) films of the spoken languages of either Mandarin or Cantonese. Though for good measure and full inclusivity, any associated language would qualify.

Guillermo del Toro on the set his 2022 stop-motion film, Pinocchio. Some say, and not without confidence, that all movies are animation when it comes right down to it. Scientifically speaking, when persistence of vision and the phi phenomenon meet and fall in love, something special can be the result. Something… moving. One frame with an image on it, another frame with the same image but slightly progressed image on it. Then a third, the same but slightly progressed yet again. This, twenty-four times.

ZekeFilm Writers Pick the Top Movies at Mid-Year The sun is sweltering, the box office is rumbling, and critics are falling into existential crises about sequels, franchises, and overblown special effects—it must be time for our Best of the Year (So Far) list! 2023’s Best of the Year (So Far) is a cause for celebration—it’s our first (So Far) list since 2019! We nixed this feature in 2020 when so many releases were delayed, and this is the first year since that the industry has reached a...