On Indie Spotlight, it's my intention to raise awareness of some otherwise overlooked projects, be they charitable works like last week's Beer. Autism. Hope. campaign, or independent passion projects ...

There aren’t a lot of cinematic experiences to compare to Phil Tippett’s long-gestating stop-motion epic Mad God. At this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival, only Takahide Hori’s stop-motion ...

Unfolding entirely without spoken dialogue, Mad God features a highly ambiguous, more-than-a-little-bit allegorical narrative in which a gas-masked figure whom reference materials identify as "The ...

Mad God was reviewed out of the Fantasia International Film Festival. You may not know the name Phil Tippett, but you definitely know his work. He’s an acclaimed creature designer, who has built the ...

Jon is a Denver-based entertainment journalist. In addition to writing news stories for ScreenRant, Jon has contributed to various entertainment news websites, including American Songwriter, Ranker, ...

After 30 years of tinkering, legendary VFX artist Tippett brings his nightmares to life in a Dantean sensory overload. Despite stop-motion animation mostly focusing on children’s movies nowadays, with ...

Completed over the course of 30-plus years, Academy Award-winner Phil Tippett’s “Mad God” is a high water mark of modern-day filmmaking, utilizing techniques from the dawn of cinema. A mind-bending, ...

There are no trains in Realm of the Mad God - well, not the kind that go along tracks anyway. Yet rarely a minute passes without some reference in the chat window that every player can see. "Train ...