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In 2020, faith and spirituality was a huge part of many of its best animated movies. And not always in the best of ways.

How 'Wolfwalkers' Combines Irish History and Folklore to Create a Tale for Our Times Courtesy of Apple TV+ Mebh (left), drawn with curves, meets Robyn, who’s all straight lines. Completing a trilogy that includes the Oscar-nominated 'The Secret of Kells' and 'Song of the Sea,' Cartoon Saloon's latest feature is set in 1650 Ireland, where a young English girl meets a tribe that transforms into wolves. While Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart were co-directing a segment for Salma Hayek's 2014 animated feature The Prophet, the pair decided to make a film to complete the Cartoon Saloon-produced "f...

The famous figures honoured with blue plaques in and around Cambridge Cambridge and its surrounding areas have produced countless famous figures 14:20, 31 JAN 2021 Updated Former PM John Major unveiling the Oliver Cromwell plaque at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 2016 Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPr...

‘Wolfwalkers’ wraps a story of a unique friendship around troubling Irish history [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MOVIE-WOLFWALKERS:LA] In the 1650s Ireland of “Wolfwalkers,” a city girl from England and a feral “wolfwalker” child become friends as an Oliver Cromwell-type Lord Protector tries to wipe out all wolves in the country. But Irish co-directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart have a lot to say under cover of that animated-adventure plot. “Cromwell viewed Ireland as being a wild land full of rebels that lived in the forest, ready to attack, and there were wolves there. And the fac...

Print Collector/Getty Images Winston Churchill once wrote, “We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” Wise words, as would be expected from such a man. But history is full of kings and governments who have tried just that, no matter how leaky the bucket. 1. Cooking Oil The Pharaohs of ancient Egypt didn’t mess around when it came to taxing their subjects. Tax evasion or inaccurate declarations were punishable by flogging or death, and an army of scribes was tasked with ensuring taxes...