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…
Comedy… Movie #78 2022: Hocus Pocus 2 (2022) 9 Oct 20223 Oct 2022 Ahhh, don't you just love it when a movie gives you a warm, fuzzy, safe feeling? It's like when you catch a couple of random clips of Mary Poppins on…
Uncategorized Movie #49 2022: Crush (2022) 19 May 202219 May 2022 When I was growing up, there was absolutely no teen-appropriate LGBTQ+ media. In fact, the only lesbian romantic comedy in film that I can remember seeing before the age of…
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:…
Comedy… Movie #40 2022: Fresh (2022) 19 Apr 202219 Apr 2022 I just love it when a film is surprising. There's not a chance in hell you'd know the tangent this film is about to go on if you didn't know…
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…
Comedy… Movie #8 2022: Raising Arizona (1987) 23 Jan 202223 Jan 2022 I'm going to say something that might be considered quite controversial in film circles: I'm just not that interested in Joel and Ethan Coen. *audible gasp*, I know. That's not…
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