(courtesy IMP Awards) Five instalments into any movie franchise is a point at which you might wonder if the novelty and fun of the original instalment has been lost or at least diluted beyond any meaningful recognition. It happens to the best of long-running series but rather happily the Toy Continue Reading
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Get animated! Trailers drops for Pixar’s Gatto and Disney’s Hexed
(via Shutterstock) I am just a big kid at heart. And while there are some parade rainers and miserable naysayers out there who would ridicule me, a man who is most certainly not a child, for liking animated storytelling, I prefer to celebrate the fact that my inner child is Continue Reading
“Three makes it a murder mystery!” Is there a killer Among Us?
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAmong Us follows a premise similar to that of the original video game from 2018. A crew team aboard the spaceship The Skeld discovers there is an alien shapeshifter who plans to cause chaos, sabotage the ship, and kill each member. Thus, the Crewmates must find out Continue Reading
It’s coming in HOT! Ice Age: Boiling Point fries up a sizzlingly funny teaser trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) Ice Age: Boiling Point is an upcoming American animated adventure comedy film directed by John C. Donkin. It is the sixth main installment in the Ice Age film series following Collision Course (2016), and the seventh Ice Age feature film overall. The film features Ray Romano, Denis Continue Reading
Have the toys finally met their match? Toy Story 5’s final fantastic trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Toy Story 5, we’re introduced to a new character Lilypad, a high-tech frog-shaped smart tablet voiced by Greta Lee that makes Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang’s jobs exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: motherhood in the spotlight in Pixar artist’s Mother’s Nature
(courtesy First Showing (c) Pixar) SNAPSHOTMother’s Nature is a series of vignettes with a playful twist on what it means to be a mom, whether you’re a turtle, parrot or anything in between. Directed by Valerie LaPointe and Produced by Claire Munzer and Paige Johnstone. (courtesy YouTube (c) Pixar) This Continue Reading
A world of magic awaits … Wildwood drops a sumptuously evocative first teaser trailer
(courtesy YouTube (c) LAIKA Studios) SNAPSHOTStep inside Laika’s Wildwood, where a powerful golden eagle commands the skies and magic takes flight. Wildwood – based on Colin Meloy’s illustrated book series – will see Prue McKeel leave behind her home of Portland, Oregon, venturing into Wildwood on a dark quest to Continue Reading
Movie review: Swapped
(courtesy IMP Awards) If you are looking for a potent shot of animated joy into your moviegoing veins, then look no further than the vibrantly colourful and emotionally rich world of Swapped. Overflowing with gobsmackingly wonderful imaginative world-building, the best this reviewer has seen the criminally underrated wonder of Disney’s Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Finding home is a real adventure in Quack!
(courtesy ESMA) SNAPSHOTTheCGBros presents Quack! by ESMA – a huge egg washes up near the stream where two small forest spirits live. A duckling comes out, and they decide to go on an adventure to bring him back to his mother. (Un gros œuf s’échoue près du ruisseau où vivent Continue Reading
There’s something magical about the creation of upcoming stop-motion wonder, Wildwood
(courtesy official LAIKA Studios YouTube channel) SNAPSHOTStep inside Laika’s Wildwood, where a powerful golden eagle commands the skies and magic takes flight. Wildwood – based on Colin Meloy’s illustrated book series – will see Prue McKeel leave behind her home of Portland, Oregon, venturing into Wildwood on a dark quest to save Continue Reading