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		<title>Japan Cuts 2026 Features US Premieres of Three New Anime Films</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This month has been a particularly busy one for me as a filmgoer. Not only is the New York Asian Film Festival taking place right now, but Japan Cuts, a two-week showcase of new Japanese cinema held by Japan Society in Manhattan, is taking place at the exact same time. Last year’s edition of NYAFF [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Micronations&#8221; Review [Tribeca Festival 2026]: DIY (Dictate It Yourself)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you’re of a certain age and invested in internet culture, chances are you remember the invasion of Molossia. In 2010, The Nostalgia Critic, Doug Walker’s ill-tempered film reviewer persona channeling 1980’s and 90’s media memories and regrets, celebrated the second anniversary of Doug’s website by invading the micronation of Molossia, run in Nevada by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Animation at Tribeca Festival 2026 Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This year’s Tribeca Festival had one of the best animated short film lineups I’ve seen in a long time, which makes it all the more unfortunate that this year’s lineup is also the most controversial. For the first time in the history of the festival, the animated shorts competition is including multiple films with generative [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tribeca Festival 2025: Animated Shorts Part 2</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Avi Ezor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As mentioned in the previous article, The animated shorts competition at Tribeca this year was so packed that they needed two screenings to fit (most of it) in. The second program of shorts was aimed at teen and adult audiences as opposed to the family-friendly theme of the previous one. As if to to illustrate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tribeca Festival 2025: Animated Shorts Part 1</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Avi Ezor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 13:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tribeca Festival returned this year with the usual selection of celebrity guests and films both independent and more high-profile. This year, I decided to step back from seeing works with bigger names in favor of smaller, more niche titles that looked interesting. My viewings involved some hidden gems and films that maybe I wanted to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Summer of All Fears&#8221; Recap!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 17:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS The Matrix. A film from the early 2000’s or a way to teach your grandkids a valuable life lesson about taking things that don’t belong to them? In the season opener of Rick and Morty, “Summer of All Fears”, Rick does the latter as he traps Morty and Summer in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Animation at the Oscars 2025</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Avi Ezor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hollywood’s biggest night is on Sunday, coming off of an absolute rollercoaster of an award season. We’re only now getting a clear frontrunner with Anora, Emilia Perez has gone from social media pariah to social media pariah that may actually lose now, and multiple nominee surprises have shaken up people’s predictions, including my own. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sundance 2025: The Best Animated Short Films</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Avi Ezor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Sundance Film Festival is often the place to find the next great work of cinema, and since the pandemic, they’ve been allowing people at home to watch as well. This year, the festival selected thirteen animated shorts and one feature, Endless Cookie (which I’ll hopefully review at a later date). I unfortunately wasn’t able [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Here&#8221; Review: Watch This Space?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Avi Ezor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 15:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve heard it and thought it several times now: Hollywood plays it too safe. The cost of making movies is so (almost certainly unnecessarily) high now that convention reigns and original or daring works are simply too risky. Unless a filmmaker has enough of a reputation that hearing their name alone will attract audiences, assuming [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Memoir of a Snail&#8221; Review</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Avi Ezor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 02:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For animation fans, Memoir of a Snail should be treated like an event. Australian animator Adam Elliot hasn’t done much, but what he has done has been widely acclaimed, and this also his first animation in 9 years as well as the follow-up to his 2009 feature debut Mary and Max. Keeping with his themes [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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