It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Tasha Robinson here with Genevieve Koski.

And Keith Phipps.

Scott Tobias is currently on vacation, but he will be back.

Here on the next picture show, we believe that no film exists in a vacuum and that all culture is more interesting in context.

So every other week, we get together to talk over a classic film and consider all culture is more interesting in context. So every other week,

we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it relates to a current movie.

This week, we have two unconventional children's movies made by unconventional creators

working at the top of their fields and actively trying to push the envelope of their

respective crafts. Both films are epic fantasies about kids who lose parent figures, make strange

new animal friends, recover magical items, and face terrifying evil. In other words, they're both

about characters on classic heroes journeys. Genevieve, if you could fold up those girl wings

for just a sec, I would like you to tell our listeners what we're talking about this week.

Well, sure. We're all fans of Laika, the Portland, Oregon studio that produced

the stop motion pictures Coraline, Paranorman, and the box trolls. So we were particularly

excited when we got the first teasers for Laika's new project, Kubo and the two strings.

It's set in a mythical version of ancient Japan, where music is literally magical. There's a

dragon in the moon, and origami creatures can walk and fight if

they're made by the right person. We had a lot of different options for pairings, and we spent

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