Jackson Murphy

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Jackson Murphy is an Emmy-winning film critic, content producer, and author, who has also served as Animation Scoop reporter since 2016. He is the creator of the website Lights-Camera-Jackson.com, and has made numerous appearances on television and radio over the past 20 years.

Articles By Jackson Murphy

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Director Stephen Vuillemin’s A Kind of Testament is on the 96th Annual Oscars Best Animated Short Film shortlist. One day, a woman discovers online that someone has taken some of her social media posts and turned them into animated video clips. It gets wilder from there. Vuillemin takes me through the thought process behind it […]

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Seth MacFarlane’s foul-mouthed teddy bear Ted took movie theaters by storm in 2012 and returned with hilarious sequel Ted 2 in 2015. Now MacFarlane is taking us to the ’90s for the new, outrageous Ted prequel series, with the title character and a teen version of Mark Wahlberg’s John Bennett (played by Max Burkholder) navigating […]

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Director Yegane Moghaddam’s Annecy-winning Our Uniform is now one of the 15 finalists for the 2024 Best Animated Short Film Academy Award. It’s about an Iranian girl who recalls her school days and, specifically, what she had to wear. Clothing is a major component of the story and the unique look of Our Uniform, as […]

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Set in 1975, Pete tells the story of a kid who wants to play baseball and enjoy it, but there are obstacles that stand in the way. However, if supportive people are on your side, hopefully they help make everything a little better. Director Bret Parker shares the meaning and depth of this 2024 Academy […]

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I’ve screened four episodes of one of the most anticipated new shows of 2024. It’s FOX’s latest animated comedy series Grimsburg. Detective Marvin Flute (voiced by Jon Hamm) returns to a quirky small town to solve murder after murder — hoping to avoid it himself — with lots of laughs and surprises along the way. […]

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