POSTED BY Caroline Cao

Ghost in the Shell fans gather. Now there’s the rare adult animated robo sci-fi feature film in Mars Express. The year is 2200. Private detective Aline Ruby (Morla Gorrondona) and android partner Carlos Rivera (Josh Keaton) are tracking down a…

Idris Elba’s voice performance as the anthropomorphic Knuckles the Echidna is key to the humor of Knuckles, so it sounds like a headscratcher that his namesake TV show doesn’t center him. If you’re a gamer, comic book reader or cartoon…

Our Divalicious take on the new film Challengers, opening April 26! Zendaya’s gaze could burn the camera. She darts her head back and forth as a tennis ball whizzes over the net. She gazes with unamused judgment at the two…

Movie Diva Caroline Cao does it again with a review of this Japanese animated feature. “I don’t need qualities to be loved!” So goes the declarative message in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom. I deliberately didn’t brush up on my…

Movie Diva’s Caroline Cao’s Divalicious review! I must first confess to some sacrilege when sitting through Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire. I admit I only have a rudimentary knowledge of the MonsterVerse movies. Most of my education stems from the…

Color and chaos splash into every frame of Chicken for Linda!, perhaps one of the best-animated features of 2024. Directors Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach direct this insane French feature with vivid palettes of color splotches. Chicken for Linda! might…

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire isn’t a car crash. But this installment—directed by Gil Kenan—doesn’t quite rekindle the fire of its predecessors. While I don’t identify as part of its fanbase, I say this earnestly as someone who likes the original 1984…

Sunday in the Park with George was Stephen Sondheim’s first major musical after his creative depression over the Broadway failure of Merrily We Roll Along (now a successful revival with Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez). His lyrics contain many…

This review contains spoilers. Theater Diva here, reporting from the New York Children’s International Film Festival. Have you ever seen a kid-friendly animated movie quieter than most others? Have you seen a movie that’s smart enough to be economical? Plenty…

Horror and stop-motion is a common macabre marriage you’ll see these days. Just gaze into Hellish circles of Henry Selick’s PG family films or Phil Tippett’s Mad Dog. Now Stopmotion arrives and its tale feels familiar yet original.   I…