adventure… Movie #48 2023: Nimona (2023) 24 Jul 202324 Jul 2023 Who knew that this year's best animated movie (okay, maybe not including Across the Spider-Verse) would be a Netflix original. Obviously there's still a lot of 2023 to go, but…
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…
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…
Comedy… Movie #35 2023: Rye Lane (2023) 6 Jun 20235 Jun 2023 The decent British rom-com seems like a thing of the past. Arguably, Richard Curtis is the king of them all, but he's not directed a romantic comedy since 2013's About…
Family… Movie #89 2022: Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge (2001) 9 Nov 20222 Nov 2022 Yes, yes. I know. I promise this is my last Halloween/spooky season-themed movie... for a while, at least. But why not end on something sweet and nostalgic like this? I…
Animation… Movie #59 2022: Lightyear (2022) 8 Jul 202230 Jun 2022 Once again, I feel like I'm missing something. Although the current audience score on Rotten Tomatoes sits at 85%, it feels as though every review I see for Lightyear is…
Animation… Movie #45 2022: Monsters University (2013) 29 Apr 202229 Apr 2022 Yesterday, it dawned on me that I still haven't seen all of the Pixar movies. All of the movies I've watched over the past two years and somehow I still…
adventure… Movie #42 2022: Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) 23 Apr 202219 Apr 2022 They just don't make them like this anymore. Of course, kids these days are so accustomed to 3D, all singing, all dancing, hyper-colourised animated films that I can't imagine Atlantis:…
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…
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…
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