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2021 has had a lot of ups and downs but at least the physical media output has been stellar. Here are the best Blu-ray sets of 2021!

The 34th iteration of TIFF will feature a retrospective, recent and upcoming films, and a look at a live-action tokusatsu special effects franchise.

More than 43 years after debuting on Japanese tv, Hayao Miyazaki’s influential series Future Boy Conan is finally coming to North America. GKIDS will release the series in late 2021 with a new 4k restoration and English dub, as well as a subtitled version. The distributor has confirmed that the show will get a Blu-ray. Future Boy Conan is the only series Miyazaki has directed in its entirety, and the last of his major works to receive a North American release. Based on American author Alexander Key’s novel The Incredible Tide, it tells the story of a young boy, raised on a remote island...

Today GKids announced that it had secured the licence to Future Boy Conan, the 26-episode, 1978 post-apocalyptic animated series from Nippon Animation. It’s best-known outside of Japan for the fact that it was Miyazaki’s first work as a solo director on a series, after co-directing the likes of Lupin III  Part 1 with Isao Takahata and working as an animator and storyboard artist. It’s set in the then-far-future of 2021 — a decade after a devastating war on Earth took the planet off its axis, destroying entire continents and wiping out much of humanity’s population. The series fol...

Posted on Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 by Hoai-Tran Bui Luca is the closest Pixar has gotten to making a Studio Ghibli film. It’s not particularly in the visuals, though there are plenty of similarities — the characters look like they’d be comfortable strolling through  Kiki’s Delivery Service, albeit in a 3D version of it — but in the feeling. There’s a warmth, a wistfulness, and a whimsy to  Luca which feels like it draws inspiration from any Hayao Miyazaki film. And, from the 30 minutes of footage that I saw in an early press day for Luca, a deep understanding of human relation...