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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The Acolyte getting canceled speaks to a much larger problem in streaming that goes well beyond Star Wars TV shows.
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The saddest and most harrowing animated movie Studio Ghibli has ever made is coming to Netflix to traumatize an entirely new generation.
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Director Tim Burton waited decades to make Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, but he feels closer to the ghost with the most than ever before.
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A Pacific Rim prequel TV series is being developed by an Oscar-nominated writer. But can this sci-fi franchise succeed without Guillermo del Toro?
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The classic horror movie Poltergeist is being re-imagined as a TV series and has some major showrunner talent attached.
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Alien: Romulus director Fede Álvarez has offered an explanation for the movie's controversial digital resurrection of a beloved actor.
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The Demon Slayer franchise includes movies that are canon to the anime, which complicates the viewing order. Allow us to help you out.
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A notorious box office flop that helped derail Mike Myers' career has found its way into the top streaming charts on Netflix.
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In its fifth season, the animated comedy Solar Opposites has continued to utilize this long-standing tradition of classic cartoons.
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A season 2 cast member of The Last of Us TV series has been given extra security on set. Here's why.
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For all the transformations and power-ups Dragon Ball has introduced, there's one Saiyan form we'll never see - Super Saiyan 5.
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The new trailer for Sony and Marvel's Kraven the Hunter, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, is...quite something. Here's why the film has an R rating.
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Deadpool & Wolverine changed a lot during its development. However, two specific elements were present even before Logan entered the picture.
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Back when Obi-Wan Kenobi was a movie and not a show, it featured a key character from the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV show.
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James Cameron recently explained the meaning behind the title of the next Avatar movie.
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Barry Keoghan, whose credits include Saltburn, Dunkirk, and many more, nearly joined the cast of Ridley Scott's Gladiator 2. Here's who he would have played.
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Thanks to Deadpool & Wolverine, Chris Evans continues to hold a Marvel record that no other MCU actor is close to matching.
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The House of the Dragon season 2 finale's Criston Cole and Gwayne Hightower scene is kind of baffling when you really scrutinize it.
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Batman: Caped Crusader delivers a Bruce Wayne we seldom see, and it makes Bruce Timm's animated series all the better.
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Getting Chris Evans back for Deadpool & Wolverine took a little bit of convincing, and agreeing to one explicit term.
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Deadpool & Wolverine's filthy Pinocchio joke was actually the replacement for something even raunchier, if you can believe it.
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All eight episodes of Netflix's Terminator Zero are floating around online in terrible quality as a result of one of the worst anime leaks in history.
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That Deadpool & Wolverine scene with Deadpool and Thor raises huge questions about what's to come for Wade Wilson in the MCU.
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The filmmakers behind Deadpool & Wolverine thought about bringing another key Marvel anti-hero into the fray with a cameo role, but this one didn't work out.
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One of the best character cameos in Deadpool & Wolverine makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it return in the movie's post-credits scene.
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House of the Dragon is sticking to its original plan of covering the events of George R. R. Martin's Fire & Blood over four seasons.
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The use of the F-word in Dune 2 came after a disagreement between actor Josh Brolin and director Denis Villeneuve.