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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Get a sneak peek at Shadow in the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 3, which is now confirmed to race into theaters towards the end of 2024.
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Here's everything we know about Fallout TV show, set in the world of the popular video game franchise with the same name.
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The Fallout TV show will retain the grim comedy from the original video games, even amidst all the post-apocalyptic action and violence.
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Arcane season 2 was announced nearly two years ago and yet Netflix has yet to reveal any progress. What's the hold up?
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Michael Waldron, who created Loki season 1 and wrote Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness for Marvel Studios, will now write Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.
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Move over Hugh Jackman, there's a new 'Greatest Showman,' and her name is Taylor Swift. Here's how you can watch Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour at home.
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With their nonsensical timeline and titles, there are multiple ways to watch the Fast & Furious movies. But there's only one correct order to watch them in.
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What better way to spend the holidays than watching a classic by uncle Sir Ridley Scott or a Jordan Peele horror gem? Here's what's leaving Netflix in December.
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Lee Shaw is played by both Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell in Monarch: The Legacy of Monsters. The Apple TV+ show isn't the first time we've seen the character.
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If you like Malcolm in the Middle, The Americans, or The Simpsons, you have to check out the anime Spy x Family.
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Did The Battle of Austerlitz happen the way it is depicted in Ridley Scott's new epic Napoleon? Well, not exactly.
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Life became easier for Ahsoka head honcho Dave Filoni when he realized Attack of the Clones had already introduced the idea of multiple galaxies to Star Wars.
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Saltburn is one of the twistiest, most surprising movies of the year, and the ending needs to be explained to be believed, if it can be believed at all.
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A Cape Fear series is in the works with Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese attached, and it's expected to focus on our current true crime obsession.
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Arthur Curry embraces fatherhood in the new trailer for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. What could possibly go wrong? (DC fans might know.)
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Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is more than a remake or a retelling of Edgar Wright's movie, it's full of ingenious meta twists and turns.
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes reveals Coriolanus Snow inadvertently created the conditions that led to Katniss Everdeen's revolution.
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The famous 'wheat field' scene in Gladiator has become one of the most memorable (and memeable) and it only happened because Ridley Scott is a genius.
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David Gordon Green's 2018 Halloween legacy sequel includes a shot of Jamie Lee Curtis firing a gun into a mirror. But things didn't initially go as planned.
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Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is a fantastic adaptation that proves you can do more than just remake the same thing in a different medium.
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/Film spoke with the filmmakers behind DreamWorks Animation's Trolls Band Together about dance choreography, tackling different animation styles, and more.
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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget comes over 20 years after the first film, which made addressing the original ending a challenge after all these years.
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Taika Waititi helped redefine Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But when Chris Hemsworth returns for another solo film, Waititi won't be joining him.
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Get ready for plenty of twists and turns (and ghosts) as we talk about the ending of Kim Jee-woon's creepy horror film A Tale of Two Sisters.
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The 2007-08 writers' strike not only led directly to the creation of Suits, but it also benefitted the show greatly when it came to residuals.
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The Loki season 2 finale provides a complete arc for the God of Mischief and seems to have given him the redemption that he's long been looking for.
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Believe it or not, there's a unifying theme in the latest wave of MCU entries, including The Marvels. And no, we're not talking about the Multiverse.