Earwig and the Witch is the first CG feature made under the Ghibli banner, and it’s clearly aimed at small children rather than an all-ages audience. Director Goro Miyazaki consciously chose the small ...

A young girl named Earwig grows up in 1990s England under the austere eye of two strangers without knowing she’s the daughter of a powerful witch in Earwig and the Witch, a meandering effort by ...

HBO Max’s aggressive strategy for 2021 dominance, debuting films simultaneously in theaters and on the Warner Media direct-to-consumer platform, has just revealed an additional surprise. Thanks to HBO ...

The maritime earwig, a bumptious bug known to sometimes devour its own offspring, has the kind of personality only an entomologist can like. The cannibalistic creature has scary-looking pincers that ...

A new Studio Ghibli movie is always cause for celebration, especially given the nebulousness of the company’s current status after supposedly shutting down in the summer of 2014 following the ...

Lucile Hadzihalilovic * ’s Earwig is, in broad outline, synopsizable with the same sentence as her first two features, Innocence and Evolution: a child (or group of children) grows up in deliberate ...

The film, directed by Ghibli scion Goro Miyazaki, joins 21 other titles Netflix has licensed from the fabled studio for international markets. By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau Chief Netflix has added to ...

Earwig and the Witch is Studio Ghibli’s first entirely 3DCG animated effort, and it shows how Ghibli’s aesthetic will translate to the third dimension. Directed by Goro Miyazaki and produced by studio ...

Aja Romano wrote about pop culture, media, and ethics. Before joining Vox in 2016, they were a staff reporter at the Daily Dot. A 2019 fellow of the National Critics Institute, they’re considered an ...

Getting their name from the side to side body movement and an old tale of crawling in people’s ears, the earwig is a common and distinguishable household pest causing angst to homeowners for many ...