Rafael Motamayor
Location
Stavanger, Norway
School
University Of Stavanger
Expertise
Shonen Anime, Star Wars Animated Projects, Kids' Animation
- Rafael was part of a team of writers that selected the 100 best animated sequences in history that won an award from the New York Press Club.
- He interviewed Hideaki Anno about making the last Evangelion movie.
- Rafael has covered every major international festival, from Cannes to Venice.
Experience
Rafael Motamayor has worked as a writer specializing in covering animation since 2018 for outlets such as Vulture, IGN, Polygon, IndieWire and The Hollywood Reporter. He keeps up with as many new anime shows as humanly possible while looking forward to his next film festival.
Education
Rafael has bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism and documentary production from the University of Stavanger, where he combined his passion for both filmmaking and journalism.
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Stories By Rafael Motamayor
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Joker 2 was a surprise disappointment at the box office, and now the sequel starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga is coming to digital.
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Venom: The Last Dance brings the Venom trilogy to a conclusion, but is it any good? Here's the early response to Tom Hardy's Marvel threequel.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 finale features a hugely important object that will change the history of Middle-earth forever.
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The Boys season 4 is full of brutal moments, but one of its most shocking deaths featured a cameo by a vital member of the show's crew.
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Lost resolved virtually every mystery it ever raised, although there's one the show's creatives refuse to clear up so long as they're alive.
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The best anime of Summer 2024 include shows based on big superhero properties, video games adaptations, and a historical comedy tailor-made for fans of Shogun.
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The Boys creator Eric Kripke feels season 5 is the right time to end the comic book show for what he's admitted is a 'wonky' reason.
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In The Rings of Power season 2, audiences discover why the Nine rings of Men cause their wearers to eventually become ringwraiths.
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Rings of Power season 2 has now given us something many modern blockbusters have failed to pull off: action on a huge scale you can actually follow.
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Kyle Chandler will be starring in the upcoming Green Lantern TV series, but once upon a time, he was in the running for a role in the Deadpool franchise.
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Blake Lively's controversial romantic drama It Ends With Us is coming to the home media market following its successful box office run.
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Much like Matt Reeves' The Batman, the Penguin spinoff series has a grounded explanation for why Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) walks with a limp.
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Marvel Studios has unveiled the trailer for Thunderbolts*, which stars an ensemble including Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Lewis Pullman, and more.
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One of the best sci-fi anime series of 2024 manages to breathe fresh life into a beloved franchise that's been struggling to thrive for years.
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Hunter x Hunter is the quintessential modern shonen and its influence can be seen everywhere. Let's revisit and rank the anime's best episodes.
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One of Bryan Cranston's most memorable shenanigans on Malcolm in the Middle had executives wary of casting him to play Walter White in Breaking Bad.
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Transformers One is one of the best Transformers movies in decades, so could this be a new start for the franchise? Here's the film's ending, explained.
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The Penguin had to recast the role of Carmine Falcone in flashbacks, but John Turturro's replacement is no stranger to the world of DC.
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In season 2 of The Rings of Power, we learned the backstory of the Harfoots and how their journey will eventually lead them to a familiar LOTR location.
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Agatha All Along has received a lukewarm response from critics, with reviews giving it one of Marvel TV's lowest scores on Rotten Tomatoes.
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The latest Alien: Romulus concept art reveals a previously-unseen (and absolutely metal) stage in The Offspring's life cycle in the movie.
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Here's what the popcorn bucket for Venom: The Last Dance looks like, but don't set your expectations too high: there is not nearly enough tongue.
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice kills off one of the biggest names in its cast, but it was actually the actor's idea in the first place.
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TV shows have rarely looked as good as Westworld did, but HBO had other reasons for canceling the big-brained, twisty sci-fi series prematurely.
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Hunter x Hunter is one of the greatest anime ever produced. Here's our ranking of every season (or, rather, story arc) in the series.
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Stephen Amell was not happy with a certain joke that the Peacemaker TV series made at the expense of his DC Comics character Green Arrow.
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Wanting to watch the Neon Genesis Evangelion Franchise but don't know where to start? Here's our guide to the correct order to check out the hit anime series.