Postman Pat produced by Lionsgate and Icon Productions and animated by Rubicon Group Holding. The story revolves around Pat entering a talent show audition which leads to robots taking over his postal service whilst he is away. The film stars Stephen Mangan as the voice of Pat and also features Jim Broadbent, Rupert Grint, David Tennant, Ronan Keating, Susan Duerden, Sandra Teles, TJ Ramini and Peter Woodward. A CGI spin-off to the series was made called "Guess with Jess" which follows Pat's cat Jess now with the ability to talk and his adventures with the farm animals. The series debuted on 9
Black Cat, White Cat Cat" "gets away with it better than most over-long movies due to its beguiling rambling shaggy dog-story quality." In a generally positive review, J. Hoberman of "The Village Voice" refers to the film as "bravura moviemaking by any objective standard" and a "vehicle for the director's lowdown magic-realist fantasies about Romany gangsters, which has a velocity that belies its jerry-built mise-en-scène" concluding that ""Black Cat, White Cat" is determined to twist every character into an ideogram for vulgar humanity" while wondering if "these gypsies are a screen on which the Bosnian-born director can project his own feelings of ostracism and