(via Shutterstock) One of the most delightful parts of any festive season is watching as many animated specials as time will allow and your hungry-for-happiness soul needs. There’s something quite special not just about the artform, which allows for the kind of visual Christmas energy and colour that live action Continue Reading
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Honest players in a crooked game … Ray Gunn drops its first retro future film noir trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT‘Academy Award winner Brad Bird, the visionary director of The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and The Iron Giant, brings you a whole new world to investigate…’ Set within Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn into a case Continue Reading
Movie review: Coyote vs. Acme
(courtesy IMP Awards) We’ve become so used to the well-structured cycle of movie hype and promo, which always finishes with the release of said ballyhooed film either in the cinema or a streaming platform, that the idea that you could make a film and actually never released it, not because Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The emotional canine journeying of Archie
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTArchie is devastated to learn of the death of his beloved aunt. He makes the long journey to the home she’s left him in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland and a new day brings renewed hope for Archie and his dog. Archie is written and created by Domenica Continue Reading
A trio of triumphantly tantalising trailers: Whalefall, The Cat in the Hat and Below
(via Shutterstock) How can you not love going to the movies? Look at the dazzling variety in these three films alone – a gripping if fantastical thriller, a garrulously chaotic animated delight based on an iconic Dr Seuss book and some seriously Halloween adjacent supernatural goings-on in an otherwise ordinary Continue Reading
“I decide when I return!” Haunted Hotel S2 drops teaser trailer for October 9 return
(courtesy YouTube (c) Netflix) SNAPSHOTA single mother tries to run the world’s most haunted hotel with her ghost brother, two kids, a demon trapped in a little boy’s body, and an ever growing collection of ghosts, monsters, and supernatural disasters. Haunted Hotel features the voices of Will Forte (Nathan), Eliza Coupe (Katherine), Skyler Gisondo (Ben), Natalie Palamides (Esther) and Jimmi Continue Reading
Aliens and foxes and a journey across the cosmos: The Saga of Rex trailer
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTA little fox. A flying saucer. An alien world. A journey that will change his life forever. Abducted from his home and taken across the cosmos, Rex is paired with a mysterious being named Aven and forced to face a series of extraordinary trials. As they struggle Continue Reading
Peanuts special review: Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy
(courtesy IMDb) With no new comic strips since the year 2000 when creator Charles M. Schulz died having already made the decision to retire the beloved and iconic home of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy and the gang, it has been up to an array of comic strip collections and Continue Reading
One big angry family … The Angry Birds Movie 3 trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTParenthood is a game-changer.” The birds are all back! This holiday season, one angry bird will face his greatest challenge yet, surviving fatherhood… while saving the world! The Angry Birds Movie 3 is once again directed by animation filmmaker John Rice, director of The Angry Birds 2 Continue Reading
Christmas in July animated movie review redux: The best Christmas tree he can be: The festive adventures of Albert
This review was first published on 23 December 2019. Christmas television is usually pretty inspirational stuff. It makes sense – if you’re going to set a story at the most, magical time of the year, it’s almost impossible for it not to be uplifting in some fashion. Comes with the Continue Reading