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 #170 2021: Wish Dragon (2021) 3 Jul 202121 Jun 2021 With clangers like Hubie Halloween and 6 Underground, everyone knows that you should always be weary when any movie comes with the heading "A Netflix Original" attached to it. Imagine…
Animation… Movie #163 2021: Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) 19 Jun 202115 Jun 2021 The past year has forced many studios to adapt how they bring their films to you, there's no disputing that. Disney did something pretty unique in that the majority of…
Animation… Movie #143 2021: The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021) 30 May 202127 May 2021 Did I expect The Mitchells vs the Machines to be the best movie of the year so far? Not at all. But listen to me when I say: this is…
Animation… Movie #120 2021: Cars 3 (2017) 7 May 20211 May 2021 To recap: Cars 2 was an absolute train wreck. Just awful. Nonsense. So why even bother with Cars 3, you ask? I enjoyed the original, okay?! I could not accept…
Animation… Movie #119 2021: Madagascar (2005) 6 May 202130 Apr 2021 There’s just something about DreamWorks’ animated features that make me feel disinterested. Not only have Pixar conquered the (non-musical) animated movie world to near perfection, but smaller studios - such…
Animation… Movie #109 2021: Wreck-It Ralph (2012) 26 Apr 202114 Apr 2021 Wreck-It Ralph is one of those weird movies in that I saw its sequel before I saw the original. Sure, there were a few jokes I didn’t quite understand when…
Animation… Movie #35 2021: Balto (1995) 10 Feb 20211 Feb 2021 Did you know that Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment once had an animated branch known as ‘Amblimation’? Me neither, until now. See, Amblimation only survived three feature films and two animated…
Animation… Movie #4 2021: Brave (2012) 10 Jan 20215 Jan 2021 Onto the second animated 'first watch' of 2021. It feels as though there's no better time to start catching up on animated films I may have missed along the way,…
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