Howl’s Moving Castle is one of Studio Ghibli’s most beloved films. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, the 2004 animated masterpiece captures the essence of magical adventure, romance, and war through ...

Ghibli Fest is bringing Howl’s Moving Castle back to theaters, which means it’s time to revisit one of the movie’s great little visual puzzles. The story of the film is relatively straightforward: ...

Before the initial release of “Howl’s Moving Castle” 20 years ago, Akihiko Yamashita spent nearly two years working as the supervising animator on the Studio Ghibli film. “I really have no idea how ...

Maggie Boccella is a certified Babe With the Power and lover of all things pop culture. She’s a News Editor at Collider, as well as a Rotten Tomatoes and The Cherry Picks approved critic, who ...

Two decades after its premiere, Howl's Moving Castle's time loop still proves that Howl and Sophie are perfect for each other in every lifetime.

Mysterious curses, duelling magicians, an empowered young female lead: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, first published in the U.S. in 1986, has all the elements of a classic young adult ...

Studio Ghibli‘s Howl’s Moving Castle is an exquisitely beautiful fairy tale romance that rebelliously rewrites the rules of its very genre. Instead of giving us a heroine canonized by her kindness, ...

When Hayao Miyazaki made Howl's Moving Castle, he set out to make an anti-war film. The story of Sophie Hatter and the Wizard Howl and their adventures in a castle powered by a fire demon is just that ...

“Howl’s Moving Castle” is a stunning film with gorgeous animation and a recognizable, sweeping score. However, the film disappoints in its writing, despite creating lovable and multi-faceted ...