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…
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…
adventure… Movie #229 2021: Encanto (2021) 17 Dec 202113 Dec 2021 Ahhhh. That's better. Over the course of 2021, Disney have had some success releasing their animated movies on their streaming platform with Raya and the Last Dragon and Luca. Both…
christmas… Movie #227 2021: Home Sweet Home Alone (2021) 13 Dec 20219 Dec 2021 There are a lot of bad remakes in cinema history. Psycho (1998) and Old Boy (2013) regularly top lists of the worst ones of all time. Enter Home Sweet Home…
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…
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