One look at the titular creatures in The Legend of Ochi (now streaming on VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) prompts one to wonder if director Isaiah Saxon is secretly a Gizmo/Baby Yoda fanfic ...

Director: Isaiah Saxon Cast: Helena Zengel, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson Rated: PG (for some language, smoking, a bloody image, thematic elements and violent content) Running Time: 1 hour, 36 minutes ...

The Legend of Ochi, Isaiah Saxon’s feature film debut, which he has also written, is a simple story, marvelously told with a breathtaking mix of location-shooting, puppetry, animatronics ...

Director: Isaiah Saxon Rating: 3/5 Runtime: 96 min. A charming family film that has an old-worldly charm, ‘The legend of Ochi’ works with original puppetry and is devoid of CGI manipulation.

The writer-director Isaiah Saxon, making a strong feature debut here, knows this and proves it. While “The Legend of Ochi” mixes digital effects, robotics, puppetry and a host of practical ...

Straining to walk in Steven Spielberg’s footsteps, Isaiah Saxon tries to replicate the legendary director’s “E.T the Extra-Terrestrial” with “The Legend of Ochi,” a well-meaning but ...

'The Legend of Ochi' A24 “I have an allegiance towards the moral superiority of children, and the script was written from that perspective,” Isaiah Saxon told me during an interview ahead of ...

Director Isaiah Saxon of “The Legend of Ochi” sat down with The Daily Californian to discuss everything from his inspiration for the film’s unique fantasy setting to his future career ...

Writer and director Isaiah Saxon spent years developing “ The Legend of Ochi ” to be a fantasy adventure that looks and feels like it could take place in one last undiscovered corner of the ...

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Director Isaiah Saxon tells TODAY.com about how his ideas came to life for the ochi, the name of the wild beasts who live in the forests surrounding a remote village on the fictional island of ...