Animation… Movie #26 2022: Turning Red (2022) 18 Mar 202218 Mar 2022 Time for a little break from this year's Oscar nominations because... well, because Nightmare Alley has put me off. I'm not even kidding; everything about it was such an anti-climax…
Animation… Movie #13 2022: Enchanted (2007) 13 Feb 202212 Feb 2022 There's nothing like a Disney musical comedy to cleanse your palate after a three-hour Oliver Stone epic, is there? You'd think it would be quite jarring, going from one extreme…
adventure… Movie #7 2022: Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022) 21 Jan 202219 Jan 2022 Listen, sometimes I really do try to give other animation studios a chance. Disney and Pixar are the giants, with Studio Ghibli (and arguably now Cartoon Saloon) rounding up the…
Animation… Movie #2 2022: Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021) 6 Jan 20226 Jan 2022 What's that? I've inadvertently made my first two films of the year both Olivia Colman movies? Whoops. I promise I will watch movies from outside of Colman's filmography at some…
Animation… Movie #233 2021: Ratatouille (2007) 25 Dec 202124 Dec 2021 Happy holidays, folks! Thought I'd mark the occasion with... a movie that isn't about Christmas in the slightest. Maybe I'll watch one or two more festive-based movies before the year…
adventure… Movie #229 2021: Encanto (2021) 17 Dec 202113 Dec 2021 Ahhhh. That's better. Over the course of 2021, Disney have had some success releasing their animated movies on their streaming platform with Raya and the Last Dragon and Luca. Both…
Animation… Movie #217 2021: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) 8 Nov 20211 Nov 2021 I understand how fond so many people are of this film. I mean, for some, it's a yearly "must watch" for this period between Halloween and Christmas that we're in...…
Animation… Movie #211 2021: Corpse Bride (2005) 27 Oct 202126 Oct 2021 Love him or loathe him, Tim Burton is a fantastic storyteller. Without his penmanship, we would never have had Edwards Scissorhands. Without his directorial prowess, we would never have had…
adventure… Movie #204 2021: The Rescuers (1977) 22 Sep 202121 Sep 2021 Isn't it strange when a movie was made 15 years before you were born, but you distinctly remember its style as something you grew up with? The Rescuers has that…
Animation… Movie #191 2021: The Lego Movie (2014) 20 Aug 202111 Aug 2021 I don't know what possessed me to watch this. Last year, I watched The Lego Batman Movie and I enjoyed it. It was fun. It made me laugh. But have…
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