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…
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 #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…
Animation… Movie #172 2021: Luca (2021) 5 Jul 202125 Jun 2021 Pixar's latest movie Luca has been under a lot of scrutiny online recently. Many critics see the film as way too average for the usually profound animation studio, and though…
Animation… Movie #155 2021: Finding Dory (2016) 11 Jun 20219 Jun 2021 What's that? Another Pixar sequel? Yeah, and what? Critics and average movie goers alike are pretty much in agreement that Finding Dory isn't quite as good as Finding Nemo, but…
Animation… Movie #120 2021: Cars 3 (2017) 7 May 20211 May 2021 To recap: Cars 2 was an absolute train wreck. Just awful. Nonsense. So why even bother with Cars 3, you ask? I enjoyed the original, okay?! I could not accept…
Animation… Movie #108 2021: Cars (2006) 25 Apr 202112 Apr 2021 It’s a really strange thing that Cars - possibly the most universally disliked Pixar movie of them all - spawned two other sequels after it. Perhaps it should be remembered…
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 #365 2020: Soul (2020) 30 Dec 202029 Dec 2020 Huzzah! This is officially the 365th 'First Watch' of the year. That means I've watched one movie that I've never seen before for each day in 2020. How did I…
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