Tag Archives: Animation

Review in Brief: Orion and the Dark (2024)

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Sam S-P

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 →

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The Boy and the Heron (2023) Review

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Sam S-P

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Animated Disney Villains Ranked

Posted on October 15, 2023 by Sam S-P

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‘Steamboat Willie’ at 95 – Review

Posted on September 19, 2023 by Sam S-P

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Review in Brief: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

Posted on July 10, 2023 by Sam S-P

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 →

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Review in Brief: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022/23)

Posted on June 18, 2023 by Sam S-P

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 →

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‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ at 85 – Review

Posted on December 21, 2022 by Sam S-P

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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) Review

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Sam S-P

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‘Aladdin’ at 30 – Review

Posted on November 25, 2022 by Sam S-P

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Review in Brief: The Sea Beast

Posted on September 22, 2022 by Sam S-P

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 →

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