The guess here is that the title “April and the Extraordinary World” was chosen for the American release of the new French animated film because it’s more marketable. But the original French title, ...

Gkids goes steampunk with “April and the Extraordinary World,” its first animated Oscar contender of the year (which opens Friday at the Nuart in LA). Adapted from Jacques Tardi’s graphic novel, the ...

Avril et le Monde truqué is coming to English-speaking audiences as April and the Extraordinary World, but its literal translation from French is actually April and the Twisted World. Such turn of ...

On March 25, one of the year’s best genre films is going to be released. It’s not live-action, it’s not American, but it’s got more life and wonder in it than 90 percent of the films released in the ...

Netflix is positioning its upcoming animated series "Sparks of Tomorrow" as a bold counter to the flood of cyberpunk titles dominating 2026. The Kyoto Animation project adapts an award-winning ...

Though its output is at times overshadowed by work from other countries, French animation is a force to be reckoned with, and never more so than in the strangely wonderful, wonderfully strange “April ...

In April and the Extraordinary World, it's 1941 and the world's greatest scientists are disappearing, stunting progress in an alternate steampunk world. In Paris, April was left behind as a mysterious ...

The steampunk genre has always been a beloved sci-fi staple, even if some of its greatest big-screen examples have been ...