Sometimes you are just in the mood for crass, obnoxious and offensive toilet humour with very little redeeming quality than it appealing to the most immature part of your funny bone. When this is the case, you could do a lot … Continue reading Review Bonanza: Sausage Party (2016) Review
Pixar have made sequels to movies that don’t necessarily lend themselves naturally to a franchise but it has been far too long since we revisited the Parr family. The potential for a sequel about a family of superheroes who mix … Continue reading Pixar Month: Incredibles 2 (2018) Review
This review was originally posted on January 12th 2018 After all these years you still can’t fault Pixar for originality. At a time when every animation seems to have some anthropomorphic animals or is a sequel (although Pixar suffer from this … Continue reading Pixar Month: Coco (2017) Review (a Re-Post)
It is a bold move to have a character who doesn’t speak on-screen, alone, for the first act of a children’s movie. You have to depend on the character holding the screen with no inner-monologue, no outer dialogue and purely on … Continue reading Pixar Month: Wall-E (2008) Review
Pixar are fantastic at taking an idea or concept and playing with it. The initial concept of “what if your toys are alive when you can’t see them” was a great one to develop, as was the idea of the monsters … Continue reading Pixar Month: Ratatouille (2007) Review
Pixar remake the Seven Samurai but instead of people it is with ants and cockroaches. Instead of the Samurai being effective heroes they are actually circus animals who have misunderstood their roles. The template is there for a film which could … Continue reading Pixar Month: A Bug’s Life (1998) Review
Some ideas are so simple and so perfect that you wonder why they haven’t been done before. What better way to appeal to kids than tell a story in which their toys magically come to life whenever they are out of … Continue reading Pixar Month: Toy Story (1995) Review
After all these years you still can’t fault Pixar for originality. At a time when every animation seems to have some anthropomorphic animals or is a sequel (although Pixar suffer from this too), they introduce a movie featuring a young boy … Continue reading Best of 2017: Coco (2017) Review
There is something captivating about the art and style of animated movies produced by Studio Ghibli. The design of the characters and the worlds may seem quite basic, particularly compared to it’s American counterparts, but in it’s simplicity there is … Continue reading My Neighbour Toroto (1988) Review
Christmas is a time to watch all the classic movies, from Home Alone to It’s a Wonderful Life. This year, Views from the Sofa is taking a more unconventional look at Christmas with five movies which may not exactly spread … Continue reading Unconventional Christmas Movies: Krampus (2015) Review
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