Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hidden in the thick forest of the fictional island of Carpathia lives the Ochi, an orange-furred primate that communicates through ...

The Ochi are a mythical forest species that communicates in sensations rather than words (and also through hocketing, a vocal technique that involves splitting a single melody across two different ...

The Great and Powerful Oz didn’t seem all that great or powerful once Dorothy pulled back his curtain. That can happen with movies, too. Sometimes going behind the camera can ruin the magic of what ...

If you love Baby Yoda, then you’ll love the adorable puppet creature in The Legend of Ochi, a new fantasy film coming to theaters this weekend. Puppets are so much cuter than CGI, don’t you think?

Going practical in “The Legend of Ochi” was important to director Isaiah Saxon — and it turned out that was true for A24, too. Saxon was asked about the benefits of leaning into puppetry in his ...

Logline: In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a farm girl named Yuri (Helena Zengel) is raised to fear an animal species known as Ochi. But when Yuri discovers a wounded baby Ochi has been ...

As Californians increasingly contend with living among wolves, black bears and mountain lions, an offbeat new fantasy movie reflects many state residents’ anxieties about their proximity to wildlife. ...

What to do about a work like Isaiah Saxon’s “The Legend of Ochi?” A curious little fantasy adventure built around the scruffy titular creature that leads a lonely youth on a magical journey, the film ...

“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 the release of his feature film ...

The physically grounded fantasy tracks Yuri (German actor Helena Zengel), a valiant teenage girl, as she tries to reunite a baby Ochi with its mother. She’s caught between the paranoid fears that her ...