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free, easy, and News English Memorial Project Launched for Osamu Kobayashi posted on Octas to send submitted memorials to Kobayashis family Patrick Macias of Octas, Inc. launched a memorial form on Tuesday for animator and director Osamu Kobayashi (pictured right in image at right), who recently passed away on April 17. Overseas fans who wish to write a memorial to Kobayashis family can do so through the form. Octas will send the memorials to Kobayashis family. 57-year-old Kobayashi passed ...

Owls Head — The Croods: A New Age (Universal, Blu-ray or DVD, PG, 96 min.). Seven years after the original movie, one’s second favorite Stone Age family – after “The Flintstones,” of course – meets the concept of neighbors and things do not always go smoothly, especially when the Croods eat the bananas. Yes, there is some monkey business going on in this sequel, which has a first-half geared more toward adults and an action-packed second half for the kids. Central to the story is o...

Whenever you take a foreign cinema class at film school, you’ll be show the lofty titles that once played the fanciest of art houses in major cities. These are noble productions that made audiences feel like they needed to dress up for a screening. They expected to feel illuminated by deep meaningful productions about the human factor. They wanted real butter on their popcorn because nothing would be artificial on the silver screen as they read subtitles. When it came to the selection from Ja...