Intro for May 15, 2026
Dear Gossips, Last week, when the full trailer for Christopher Nolan’s take on The Odyssey dropped, I said “can’t wait to watch all the weird classical art bros lose their minds over a woman of color portraying a Hellenic goddess” in relation to Zendaya potentially, probably, playing the
Welcome to Wildwood, Laika’s latest whimsy
On the list of things that used to annoy me but now bother me much less, sitting near the top is the state of Laika, the stop-motion animation production company that has made films including Coraline, ParaNorman, and Kubo and the Two Strings. Laika began life as Will Vinton Studios,
