By Ben Pivoz When people discuss American feature animation, they tend to talk about Pixar or Disney. Those two certainly have had the longest track records of success. However, over the last decade, stop-motion animation company Laika has made a case for belonging in that conversation. Their first four outings (Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls and…

By Ben Pivoz The Mustang is an intimate character study about a man, shut off from the outside world both physically and emotionally, who finds purpose by bonding with a creature as wild as he is. It is a quiet story about guilt, acceptance and the possibility for our prison system to reform people. It…