As I’ve followed the general critical and commercial rise of East Asian animation as a fan, one notable film industry has been missing. While Japan, Korea, and mainland China have each had recent success with their animated film output, Hong Kong hasn’t released an animated film for international distribution in some time. Despite the industry being responsible for several modern live-action classics, Hong Kong animation has remained largely relegated to domestic markets. Another World, director...

While anime has rapidly crept into the popular culture space over the last decade, Solo Leveling, an adaptation of the webtoon/manwha of the same name–has reached new levels of both commercial and critical success. After a phenomenal first season last year, and its subsequent sweep at this year’s Crunchyroll Anime Awards, Solo Leveling makes history as the first anime under consideration for the Emmy Awards.


The series takes place after rifts to dungeons riddled with dangerous beasts open wor...

Guillermo del Toro’s long-prophesied adaptation of Frankenstein has finally been released. It serves as the latest in a nearly century-old line of putting Mary Shelley’s seminal novel on the big screen (or small screen, as the case may be). Del Toro himself has touted the original story as one of his favorites. His filmography, full of misunderstood monsters and supposedly “humane” creators, is proof that he understood the oeuvre of the Modern Prometheus long before directing an adaptation himse...