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Review in Brief: Orion and the Dark (2024)
Charlie Kaufman’s latest exploration of existential dread is, unexpectedly, a kids’ animation from Dreamworks and director Sean Charmatz. Highly neurotic eleven-year-old Orion (Jacob Tremblay) is swept off on an adventure by the anthropomorphic personifications of night, lead by Dark (Paul … Continue reading
The Boy and the Heron (2023) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Animation, Anime, Fantasy, Hayao Miyazaki, Masaki Suda, Soma Santoki, Studio Ghibli, The Boy and the Heron, World Cinema
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‘Steamboat Willie’ at 95 – Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Animation, Comedy, Disney, Family Film, Steamboat Willie, Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney
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Review in Brief: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
They only went and EMPIRE STRIKES BACK-ed SPIDER-VERSE. If the first film was “anyone can be Spider-Man” then this is “can (and should) Spider-Man save everyone?”. 2 years after several very different Spider-people crossed over to the world of Miles … Continue reading
Review in Brief: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022/23)
MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON is an endearingly strange and melancholic live-action/stop-motion animation hybrid mockumentary. An anthropomorphic shell called Marcel (Jenny Slate) lives with his grandma Connie (Isabella Rossellini) in the corner of an Air BnB and wonders where … Continue reading
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Animation, David Bradley, Ewan McGregor, Fantasy, Guillermo del Toro, Pinocchio
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‘Aladdin’ at 30 – Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Aladdin, Animation, Disney, John Musker, Musical, Robin Williams, Ron Clements, Scott Weinger
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Review in Brief: The Sea Beast
If you had to deliver THE SEA BEAST as an elevator pitch, it would be PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN meets HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, though this beautiful animation on Netflix is easily as fun as the former and as … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Animation, Chris Williams, Family Film, Jared Harris, Karl Urban, Netflix, The Sea Beast, Zaris-Angel Hator
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