"Swapped" (2026) and The Power of Trust
Swapped combines comedy, adventure and emotional growth while delivering one of the biggest plot twists in animation history.

While trying to finish his own novel, a mildly successful genre writer discovers old sci-fi manuscript pages in his building’s unfinished foundation. As he tries to pass off these 50-year-old pages as his own, he realizes the otherwordly story they tell might be more fact than fiction, and his quest for more pages sends him down a rabbit hole of portals, distant worlds, and a mysterious terror he might have accidentally unleashed.
Swapped combines comedy, adventure and emotional growth while delivering one of the biggest plot twists in animation history.
A film about family and sacrifice... and carnivorous locusts coming after you.
Over the last several years, I have had the privilege of being one of the critics having the opportunity to watch and review several films from writer/director/producer Marcellus Cox, whose efforts are never anything less but grounded, relevant, and steeped in unflinching glimpses illustrating the gripping, inspired, and ever-vacillating realms that make up the human condition.
I suppose you could argue that the story wasn’t what Director James Cameron was aiming for, it was the visuals. The spectacle of it all was the point, and it certainly shows.
This live-action Barbie movie brings strong feminism and topics about blondes.
Animation as a medium of storytelling can be thought to be open to all ages and as I hope my reading will reveal, 'Nimona' could be interpreted as a transgender story.