Toy Story 4 – Review
The incinerator scene in 2010’s Toy Story 3 left so many moviegoers in floods of tears in a way that no film about childhood toys ever should. It was so emotional and poignant – a real le...
Category Archives: Animation
Tad The Lost Explorer And The Secret Of King Midas
This film is a bit of a strange beast. It is the sequel to a successful Spanish language animated film that never gained a release in the UK. Given that these films have some form of through line in ...
The Incredibles 2
Fourteen years is a long wait for a sequel – especially a superhero one. Since 2004’s The Incredibles, we’ve had two big screen incarnations of both Batman and Superman, three actors play...
Sherlock Gnomes
It is all too easy to get a bit sniffy about the forays into cinema taken by Elton John’s Rocket pictures. ‘It’s a film for kids’ is often bandied about to describe the output...
Grave of the Fireflies
Anyone who thinks that anime is simply full of wide-eyed, giggling young girls and over-the-top fantasy sequences clearly hasn’t seen the raw and unflinching Grave of the Fireflies. Film 4 have...
Ready Player One
You have to appreciate the work ethic of Steven Spielberg even if you are not a fan of his movies. Ready Player One was a mammoth undertaking for him. The production from start to finish took over th...
Big Fish & Begonia – Trailer
Coming soon to UK screens is the Chinese animated film Big Fish & Begonia. The amine was in production for twelve years and is a mixture of new and very old storytelling with references to classi...
Isle Of Dogs
The opening gala for the 2018 film festival was an inspired choice. Wes Anderson ticks so many of the boxes that the organisers of the festival are promoting. He is a big name talent with a very part...
Coco
Explaining death to a child is, in most circumstances, a difficult thing to do. More often than not, there is talk of remembering those who have passed; through photographs, stories and anniversaries...
Oscar Nominations 2018: Full List
This year’s Oscar nominations have been announced, in full, this afternoon as many keen film fans anticipate what the speeches and overall climate of the ceremony will be like following the Tim...