With its subversive queer sensibility and 'Mandy'-style color palette, 'Unicorn Wars' — a twisted animated feature from Alberto Vázquez ('Birdboy') — strains to deliver the midnight-movie goods.

A teddy bear regiment leaves the training camp for a mission that will end in a brutal and disastrous final battle. Unicorn Wars is Vázquez’s second feature (following 2017’s Birdboy: The ...

But “Unicorn Wars” is forcefully provocative, trying too hard to push buttons at the cost of more nuanced explorations of masculinity and power. For Vázquez, a pile of cartoon corpses makes ...

Unicorn Wars’ Alberto Vázquez explains his deeply upsetting take on Care Bears. Birdboy’s writer-director breaks down the movie’s ending, its message, and its mysterious monster ...