To be fari, The Legend of Ochi is a love-it-or-hate-it affair, and some may see its display of gross, sweaty, moist, tousled, smelly-looking, warts-and-all practical visual effects as endearing in ...

A new A24 fantasy film helmed by a California native preaches reconciliation between man and beast. It hits home in a state ...

This week’s new movies on VOD are a wild assortment of fantasy, action, and (stoner) comedy, among other things. Among some ...

To make “The Legend of Ochi,” writer-director Isaiah Saxon borrowed a little piece of “E.T.,” some of “The Neverending Story” ...

Mashable's entertainment team has scoured the streaming services to highlight the most buzzed-about releases of this week and ...

A Minecraft Movie (PG for violence, suggestive language, product tie-ins) action, comedy, family — A mysterious portal pulls ...

Anything’s possible, but not everything’s advisable. The writer-director Isaiah Saxon, making a strong feature debut here, knows this and proves it. While “The Legend of Ochi” mixes ...

The Legend of Ochi, Isaiah Saxon’s feature film debut, which he has also written, is a simple story, marvelously told with a breathtaking mix of location-shooting, puppetry, animatronics ...

Isaiah Saxon, who made his feature film debut with The Legend of Ochi (A24), describes a "giant corporate garden" that independent filmmakers find difficult to enter as one controlled by a few ...

According to director and writer Isaiah Saxon, a team of five puppeteers operated the baby Ochi on set, which is what made it so impressive and life-like on-screen. First look into A24’s ...

Details: 2½ stars out of 4; drops May 1 on Netflix. “The Legend of Ochi”: Isaiah Saxon debut feature is a fable to remember, whisking us off to the enchanted fantasy realm of Carpathian ...