Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Jason and the Argonauts is Ray Harryhausen's masterpiece. Bernard Herrmann composed the score in his fourth and final collaboration with Harryhausen.
Genre: Claymation
Stop-motion clay animation, frame by patient frame. Reviews of the claymation films that prove painstaking craft can carry as much feeling as any live actor.
ClaymationClash of the Titans (1981)
Clash of the Titans is Ray Harryhausen's final film and his farewell to the medium he helped invent. Judi Bowker plays Andromeda.
ClaymationThe 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is the film where Ray Harryhausen invented the modern fantasy adventure. Kerwin Mathews plays Sinbad.
AnimatedCoraline (2009)
The film adapts Neil Gaiman's 2002 novella. The film cost approximately sixty million dollars and made one hundred and twenty-five million worldwide.
AnimalWallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (1995)
A Close Shave is the third Wallace and Gromit short and one of the finest pieces of stop-motion animation ever produced. The short runs approximately thirty minutes.
AnimatedWallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Peter Sallis returned as the voice of Wallace, the cheese-obsessed inventor. Aardman Animations produced the film.
AnimalShaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
Shaun the Sheep Movie is the rare modern feature animation that contains no spoken dialogue. Mark Burton and Richard Starzak co-directed.
AnimatedThe Boxtrolls (2014)
The Boxtrolls is Laika's third feature and a strange, beautiful, sometimes overstuffed adventure that does not get the credit it deserves. Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable co-directed.
AdventureJames and the Giant Peach (1996)
The film adapts Roald Dahl's 1961 children's novel about an orphan who escapes his abusive aunts by climbing inside a magically enormous peach and floating across the Atlantic with a crew of human-sized talking insects. The film made approximately twenty-eight…
AnimatedParaNorman (2012) Review
Laika Animation had been founded in 2005 by Phil Knight, the Nike founder, with substantial commitment to stop-motion feature production. The town's broader population substantially mocks and ostracizes Norman because of his unusual capabilities.
AnimatedThe Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) Review
Burton developed the original story concept, designed the major characters, and produced the production. Jack experiences substantial existential dissatisfaction with his role despite his substantial popularity among the Halloween Town inhabitants.
AdventureChicken Run (2000) Review
Chicken Run is one of the great British animated productions of the early twenty-first century and the feature debut of Aardman Animations as substantial. Aardman Animations had been working primarily in short subject and television animated production before Chicken Run.