Pixar continue to be as inventive as ever with each new movie. You can almost guarantee that the central story or character is like nothing you have seen before and that they will be able to build an impressive world … Continue reading Luca (2021) Review
There is a fresh inventiveness since Disney moved away from the “women as princesses” model of animation. Pixar aside, recent Disney movies have taken the traditional idea of a princess and turned them into heroes in their own right, often … Continue reading Encanto (2021) Review
The way that Pixar can create whole worlds and concepts out of a simple idea will always amaze. Soul is exactly like that too. This time, the world that has been created is the after-life, or more accurately, the pre-life, … Continue reading Soul (2020) Review
With the success of Pixar and Disney, both controlling and becoming the standard in animated movies, it is easy to overlook Aardman Animation. Farmageddon demonstrates why they should be as included in that list as the others. Farmageddon is a … Continue reading A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019) Review
It will never cease to amaze how Pixar takes a simple idea and builds a fascinating world around it. In the case of Onward, its the idea that technology has altered the typically magical medieval world we are familiar with … Continue reading Onward (2020) Review
Its a bold move to try to continue what is considered by many a perfect trilogy. Although Hollywood has always had a tendency to milk successful franchises beyond their creative limit, Pixar felt like it could have been different and … Continue reading Toy Story 4 (2019) Review
Every “kids movie” has to navigate that fine balance between being entertaining enough for kids to be engrossed for 90 minutes but not be too corny and super sweet that parents can’t enjoy it too. Pixar knows how to do … Continue reading Trolls (2016) Review
Occasionally, outside of Pixar, an animated movie is made which treats its audience with respect and delivers a clever, partly mature but no less exciting story. How to Train your Dragon is that movie, managing to deliver a tale that is … Continue reading How to Train your Dragon (2010) Review
Most movie bloggers make a list of the films they want to see at this time of year but my list is slightly different. I don’t get to go to the cinema as frequently as I once did so I have … Continue reading My “Must-See at the Cinema” releases of 2019
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
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