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Toronto film festival: There’s a lot going on in Netflix’s gothic stop-motion caper, but there’s also a lot to likeWe almost never see Black characters in stop-motion animation. You’d have to go all the way back to 1999’s The PJs – the short-lived crude sitcom about project housing produced by Eddie Murphy – for a memorable example. And that wasn’t even for kids.That’s what makes Wendell & Wild such a moment, an opportunity for younger audiences to see their communities re-imagined with the same stitched-together gothic aesthetic and hands-on care that director Henry Selick brought to The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline. Continue reading...