Aladdin is Disney at the height of their creative powers and it shows. It is a film where everything that can work, does work and the studio seems to weave it’s usual magic over a classic story by becoming the definitive … Continue reading Aladdin (1992) Review
Occasionally, outside of Pixar, an animated movie is made which treats its audience with respect and delivers a clever, partly mature but no less exciting story. How to Train your Dragon is that movie, managing to deliver a tale that is … Continue reading How to Train your Dragon (2010) Review
Most movie bloggers make a list of the films they want to see at this time of year but my list is slightly different. I don’t get to go to the cinema as frequently as I once did so I have … Continue reading My “Must-See at the Cinema” releases of 2019
The fact that Disney can stay relevant and fresh with something as tired and out-dated as a “princess” is testament to their unique story-telling. Moana is not your typical, long flowing dress and damsel-in-distress type princess. Moana is a tough, … Continue reading Review Bonanza: Moana (2016) Review
Into the Spider-Verse is a bold movie. It kills off it’s most recognisable character in the first act. It introduces not one but six unique Spider-People into a cinematic world already full of superheroes. It uses an animation style that looks … Continue reading Review Bonanza: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Review
It would be very easy to roll your eyes and see The Angry Birds movie as a cheap cash-in on the success of the game. It wouldn’t be the first video-game movie to try this and usually they fail spectacularly, especially … Continue reading Review Bonanza: The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
This review was originally posted on January 12th 2018 After all these years you still can’t fault Pixar for originality. At a time when every animation seems to have some anthropomorphic animals or is a sequel (although Pixar suffer from this … Continue reading Pixar Month: Coco (2017) Review (a Re-Post)
