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Guests: ‘Shape Island’ Creators Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen

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Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen are the creators and EPs of “Shape Island”, the Emmy-winning and Annie Awards nominated stop-motion animation family comedy series. It returns for Season 2 this Friday Aug. 29 on AppleTV+. 2015 LCJ Q&A Podcast guests included Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (“Juno”) and “Hotel Transylvania” trilogy director Genndy Tartakovsky. 2016 saw […]
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Guest: ‘Memoir of a Snail’ Director Adam Elliot

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Adam Elliot won the Best Animated Short Film Academy Award 20 years ago for “Harvie Krumpet”. He followed that up with acclaimed stop-motion feature “Mary & Max”. His latest claymation movie is “Memoir of a Snail”, which opens in theaters on Oct. 25. 2013 LCJ Q&A Podcast guests included Oscar-winning director Chris Wedge (“Ice Age” […]
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Guest: ‘In the Know’ Creator and actor Zach Woods

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Peacock’s new series “In the Know” has a lot of things I love: comedy, stop-motion animation, and interviewing. All six episodes debut Thursday January 25th. The show’s creator, EP, showrunner and star is “The Office” and “Silicon Valley” actor Zach Woods, who joins me for a fun and revealing LCJ Q&A Podcast episode. Since the […]
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Animation Scoop: ‘Dog Apartment’ Q&A

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Priit Tender is the director of Oscars Animated Short Film shortlist finalist ‘Dog Apartment’. Here’s our Animation Scoop Q&A about the stop-motion short. ————————— Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic/entertainment reporter in 2006 at the age of 7. Jackson has written over 1,000 reviews of new releases. And […]
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Animation Scoop: ‘Save Ralph’ Q&A

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“Save Ralph”, from The Humane Society, is one of the 15 finalists for the 2023 Best Animated Short Film Oscar. Stop-motion animator Andy Gent (who collaborated with Wes Anderson on “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and “Isle of Dogs”) joins me for this “Save Ralph” Animation Scoop Q&A. ——————————– Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his […]
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Animation Scoop: ‘Even Mice Belong in Heaven’

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This is my Animation Scoop Q&A with the directors and producer of stop-motion animated feature “Even Mice Belong in Heaven”, which is now available on VOD and Digital. ———————————————- Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic/entertainment reporter in 2006 at the age of 7. Jackson has written over 1,000 […]
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‘The Boxtrolls’ Review

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“The Boxtrolls” is the latest stop-motion animation film distributed by Focus Features and brought to life by Laika, the makers of “Coraline” and “ParaNorman”. Both of those movies were nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar, and I’ll be very surprised if “The Boxtrolls” isn’t on the ballot this year. What, on the surface, appears […]
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