wildwood Archives

Stop motion animation is a labor of love, and the fact that LAIKA and Aardman are out here still doing it, doing it at a level that is buckwild insane, and releasing movies where you could press pause at any given time and frame it, is proof that the entire industry isn't going entirely down[...]

Both LAIKA and Aardman had lightbox displays on the CinemaCon show floor showcasing their upcoming projects, Wildwood and Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, both of which are releasing this fall. Wildwood is the entry from LAIKA The last film we saw from them was Missing Link in 2019, so they have been sorely[...]

It's all a cleverly-coded reference to political and financial machinations surrounding the transformation of Wildwoods island from a virtually undeveloped and indeed wild place of nature to a resort for the wealthy and powerful of the era. By the time this story had been published, there was a well-known yacht club based on Wildwood, and the[...]