Animation… Movie #46 2023: Elemental (2023) 19 Jul 202317 Jul 2023 Pixar have long been the royal standard when it comes to profound, visually magnificent animated movies. To be fair, when the little 'Pixar' desk lamp appears at the start of…
adventure… Movie #39 2023: Shrek 2 (2004) 14 Jun 20236 Jun 2023 I've made it abundantly clear that Disney and Pixar are the cream of the crop when it comes to animation. In fact, I'd put Cartoon Saloon, Studio Ghibli (and, more…
Animation… Movie #38 2023: The Little Mermaid (2023) 12 Jun 20236 Jun 2023 Don't shoot me: I've never seen the original The Little Mermaid from 1989. Yes, I know it's one of the more universally loved Disney princess films, but I come from…
Animation… Movie #28 2023: DC League of Super-Pets (2022) 29 Apr 202326 Apr 2023 Surprise! Bet you didn't think you'd hear from me again so soon. Of course, with my long, boring spiel in my last post about how I never get to watch…
Comedy… Movie #21 2023: Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical (2022) 20 Mar 202320 Mar 2023 There truly has been a lot of musical-to-film adapting in recent times, hasn't there? In the last few years alone we've had The Prom, Everyone's Talking About Jamie, Tick, Tick...…
Animation… Movie #71 2022: Sing 2 (2021) 6 Sep 20225 Sep 2022 Sing is one of those movies that I never expected to enjoy. When it was released in 2016, it wasn't even on my radar when it came to future cinema…
Animation… Movie #63 2022: The Addams Family 2 (2021) 27 Jul 202222 Jul 2022 Man, I really wanted this to be better just to spite the haters. Though I am probably one of the world's biggest fans of The Addams Family (1991) and Addams…
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…
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