03. Anomalisa. Studio: Paramount Pictures Release date: 2015 Written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, this thought-provoking ...

It's a one-on-one, 2D fighting game, only it features action figures duking it out in toy-sized arenas. The animation looks to be all stop-motion, too, and the effect is brilliant.

Soviet animators of the 1940s and ’50s had been required to draw realistically, but this film tosses all of that realism aside in a bold explosion of mixed-media madness, incorporating stylized ...

The stop motion is done so fluidly that it looks amazingly animated, and the Pinocchio voice cast is even better. This is truly one of the best adaptations out there. Please go watch it.

The intense live-action/animation horror movie Stopmotion opens in theaters Feb. 23 and on Shudder May 31. Starring Game of Thrones’ Aisling Franciosi.