End Credits #325 - December 13, 2023 (The Boy and the Heron)

This week on End Credits, we're going to Japan. Our friends on the other side of the Pacific are having quite a movie moment right now with two of the three movies in the Top 5 at the North American box office being Japanese. On this show, we're going to talk about one of those movies, The Boy and the Heron, and we're going to look ahead to some of the movies coming out next year, be they Japanese or not. 

This Wednesday, December 13, at 3 pm, Adam A. Donaldson and Peter Salmon will discuss:

Best of 2024. (Too Soon?) It's almost the end of the year, and while our Top of 2023 is still a couple of weeks away, it's never too early to talk about what some of the best movies of 2024 might be, or even just some of the movies that we're looking forward to. It's going to be an unusual movie release calendar next year with the Writers' and Actors' Strikes both creating delays, but if you look at what's coming you'll see that there's still a lot to look forward to. We're going discuss some of the movies to watch in the next 12 months.

REVIEW: The Boy and the Heron (2023). In 2013, Hayao Miyazaki announced that The Wind Rises was going to be his last film, and 10 years later, here we are with his latest film. The Boy and the Heron follows a lot of the same beats as previous Miyazaki works, but it's also been called his most biographical film, set during World War II as a young boy tries to find his way after the tragic death of his mother. In the midst of his grief, he's led to a magic kingdom by a gnome-like creature disguised as a grey heron, but will the boy find peace there, or more danger? For that matter, will our reviewers?

End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 3 pm.