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,…
Animation… Movie #1 2021: Princess Mononoke (1997) 7 Jan 20214 Jan 2021 We're back to square one! The first movie of 2021; the first movie in a batch of first watches for me in a new year. To say I'm excited about…
Animation… Movie #299 2020: Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) 10 Nov 202011 Nov 2020 You know when a movie just takes you completely by surprise? I recorded Kubo and the Two Strings on a whim because I saw it was on Film4. What I…
Action… Movie #269 2020: The Incredibles (2004) 6 Oct 20202 Oct 2020 Oh, shut up. If you'd been paying attention, it would come as no surprise to you that I'd never seen this before. Honestly, it's becoming more and more apparent that…
Action… Movie #214 2020: Artemis Fowl (2020) 16 Jun 202015 Jun 2020 Oh boy. Where to start with this one? Artemis Fowl is the long awaited Disney feature length movie, directed by Kenneth Branagh. Based on the series of fantasy novels of…
Animation… Movie #211 2020: The Emperor’s New Groove (2000) 14 Jun 202012 Jun 2020 Is a movie from the year 2000 considered a 'classic' nowadays? I mean, it's 20 years old at this point, so I'd say so. The Emperor's New Groove is one…
Action… Movie #207 2020: The Lego Batman Movie (2017) 12 Jun 202010 Jun 2020 You know what? I had high expectations for this movie. People tend to talk about it so fondly that I didn't understand how they could possibly love an animated Lego…
Animation… Movie #199 2020: The Addams Family (2019) 8 Jun 20206 Jun 2020 Did we need an animated version of The Addams Family? No. Will anything ever top the perfection that is Addams Family Values? Also no. But people led me to believe…
Animation… Movie #192 2020: ParaNorman (2012) 5 Jun 20203 Jun 2020 From the animation studio who brought you Missing Link and Coraline comes ParaNorman, a sci-fi, fantasy children's animated thriller... oh, and there's some comedy too. Basically, Laika Studios look like…
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