Berri's Couch Berri

An episode dedicated to the shorts before the main features? No only the first of a series of episodes cataloguing the rise of the Pixar shorts and the highs, lows and terrors they inflicted upon people. These have left their marks for better and in one particular case worse.

Laika's first foray into production as themselves. This film defined them in the popular consciousness for better or worse, how does it stand up after all this time? Could they have done better? What fingerprints that later come to define the company can be found here? All this and a serious discussion about fictional houses in this episode.

So how does Laika do on a contract job for a auteur that can at times forget that film needs a story and can't coast by on visuals alone. Is this a good merging of creators or is it better that death parts this union quickly.

The magnum opus of Laika productions but is it without flaws? Is stop motion a viable medium for samurai stories? Is origami a valid form of ques marker? All the questions asked and answered as we look at Kubo.

The oft maligned and deemed lesser of Laika's productions is now getting a good look in through our eyes and like a judge of fine cheese (I assume there are cheese judges and competitions) we shall pour over all of the details and find deeper meaning than others maybe thought was there.

Stop motion, horror and a moral about acting out in fear. Just a small portion that makes this Laika film what it is and we are digging it up, casting a spell and seeing if their is magic in this film or if we should just leave it alone to its visions.