If you are near a Fathom Events participating theater for the November 26th, 27th, or 29th showings of ‘Howl’s Moving Castle,’ enter our contest to win a pair of tickets!
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If you are near a Fathom Events participating theater for the September 24th, 25th, or 27th showings of ‘Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind,’ enter our contest to win a pair of tickets!
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If you are near a Fathom Events participating theater for the August 27, 28, or 30 showings of ‘Castle in the Sky,’ enter our contest to win a pair of tickets!
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If you are near a Fathom Events participating theater for the 23-24 July showing of ‘Kiki’s Delivery Service,’ enter our contest to win a pair of tickets!
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Excited to see ‘My Neighbor Totoro’ on the big screen this coming weekend? If you are near a Fathom Events participating theater, enter our contest to win a pair of tickets!
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Stay tuned to GeekDad starting June 19th for your chance to win tickets to see the six films featured in Studio Ghibli Fest 2017!
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It’s with more than a bit of excitement that Studio Ghibli and Goro Miyazaki’s ‘Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter’ will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on January 27 in the US and the UK.
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‘The Art of Castle in the Sky’ from Viz Media is a gorgeous reprinting of the original Japanese book and is a must for all Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki fans.
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If you’re a fan of Studio Ghibli near Portland, Oregon, here’s an event you won’t want to miss next month: the Studio Ghibli Retrospective!
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I arrived late to the whimsical works of Studio Ghibli, and I take great pains to ensure that my children don’t make the same mistake. They’ve grown up with ‘My Neighbor Totoro,’ ‘Kiki’s Delivery Service,’ and ‘Spirited Away,’ and just last week we added another fine film to the list–‘When Marnie Was There.’
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A pair of new home media releases from Japan’s renowned Studio Ghibli are available on Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, and neither is to be missed!
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We’re thrilled to announce the winner of the Studio Ghibli Gund giveaway and share some of her adorable pictures!
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Gund knocks it out of the park with the Studio Ghibli line of stuffed toys: nearly perfect in likeness, quality, and huggability.
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An absolutely adorable Studio Ghibli giveaway from Gund! Totoro and Jiji! Check it out and enter to win!
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Studio Ghibli is the Japanese animation studio, founded by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, behind movies like My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, and Arrietty (among many others). A new documentary, The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at Studio Ghibli. Here’s your chance to win a copy of the film on DVD.
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Our kids were raised on many movies from the imagination of Hayao Miyazaki. So when our travels took us to Japan, missing a visit to the Ghibli Museum was not an option. But first, we needed to buy some tickets.
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Miyazaki’s female leads offer a far more complex picture of what it means to be a person. They often have agency outside of their relationships to men.
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The brilliant and much-celebrated animator/director turns 73 today!
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Miyazaki, Marvel, Muppets, and Maleficent—oh my! The House of Mouse has quite a stellar lot of theatrical releases planned for the New Year.
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Miyazaki father and son collaborate on a slice of life story set in Japan in 1963 that has a great deal of the Studio Ghibli visual magic.
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Here’s a second..and a third…chance to win the Studio Ghibli prize package!
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GeekDad readers have a chance to win this exclusive prize package to celebrate the release of My Neighbor Totoro and Howl’s Moving Castle on Blu-ray.
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Studio Ghibli is having a banner day today, as Disney releases one of the very first Hayao Miyazaki movies available in the west, My Neighbor Totoro, and one of the last by the now-retired legend, Howl’s Moving Castle.
I received review copies in advance of the films. As I’d never seen Howl’s Moving Castle ever, I watched that first. My eyeballs are still recovering from the visual feast.
Continue ReadingIsao Takahata’s Only Yesterday is a masterpiece of animated film demonstrating both the flexibility of the medium and the director’s genius.
Continue ReadingThe Northwest Film Institute is hosting screenings all month of Studio Ghibli films.
Continue ReadingAs a child, I spent many a happy afternoon poring over a gigantic book called “The Art Of Walt Disney.” It sat on our bookshelf collecting dust, until one day I discovered it there, and lugged it down. It turned out that my dad had brought it back from one of his many […]
Continue ReadingAs a child, I spent many a happy afternoon poring over a gigantic book called The Art of Walt Disney. It sat on our bookshelf collecting dust, until one day I discovered it there, and lugged it down. It turned …
Continue ReadingIn the early days of Disney hand-drawn animation, the term “special effects” was used very differently than it is in modern filmmaking. In a live-action movie, making Pinocchio’s nose grow or setting Dumbo the elephant soaring above the circus audience …
Continue ReadingOne of Diana Stanley’s Illustrations for the 1952 British Editions of The Borrowers by Mary Norton The English language version of the Studio Ghibli film The Secret World of Arrietty arrives in theaters today (check out Matt Blum’s review and …
Continue ReadingCheck out this new clip from the new Studio Ghibli film The Secret World of Arrietty, which hits theaters this Friday, February 17. Access to publish the clip was given to just a few sites, so you’re not likely to …
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