Although a great deal of movies completely fell short of being entertaining this year. There were pockets of brilliance this year. Even stranger would be a great deal of great features this year were of the animated persuasion. The larger more mainstream titles this year: Wall-E and Kung Fu Panda were great even for there kid and family friendly-ness. As far as independent movies there were plenty this year, but most notably would be the graphic novel adaptation of Persepolis. Though it was nominated last year, it came out this year with a moderate amount of buzz.

Fears of The Dark follows in similar steps as Persepolis. Where we have a movie with incredibly capable animators and storytellers, but with their varied backgrounds you can't help but think will a work like this be cohesive?