The trick with any show that is premised on an out-there idea and some pretty bonkers (thought delightfully) world-building, is that it needs to have a reason for being beyond simply being a whole of highly enjoyable, super colourful surreality. While it’s fun to watch a show which is all Continue Reading
Animation
Movie review: The Wild Robot
(courtesy IMP Awards) Underestimate the power of animation to tell a profoundly moving and important story at your peril. As The Wild Robot, based on the book of the same name by Peter Brown, underscores again and again during its perfectly judged 102-minute running time, animated features can move the Continue Reading
You’ll never be the same again … gorgeous final trailer for The Wild Robot
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTFrom DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation – Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot. The epic sci-fi adventure story follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The joyful remembrance of Run Totti Run
(courtesy IMDb (c) Shad Lee Bradbury) SNAPSHOTA young boy and his dog in the rice fields of Cambodia encounter an unmoving obstacle that will bring their love to light in this endearing story between best friends. [Directed by] Shad Bradbury [who] has worked in animation for over 20 years. He Continue Reading
“I believe in glasses half-full and silver linings…” First trailer for stop-motion gem, Memoir of a Snail by Adam Elliot
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTOriginal intro from Annecy: “Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst. Despite Continue Reading
“The mood swings! That one looks fun.” Inside Out 2’s delightfully funny missing scene
(courtesy Inside Out 2) SNAPSHOTThe little voices inside Riley’s head know her inside and out—but this summer, everything changes. Pixar’s Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Continue Reading
“I LOVE epic journeys!” Join Nemo & Dory and Coco and the Incredibles and more on all-new LEGO Pixar Bricktoon adventures
SNAPSHOTLEGO Pixar: BrickToons is a TV series for Disney+ featuring classic Pixar characters. Join some of your favorite LEGO Pixar characters for all-new adventures! Sing along with Miguel in the Land of the Dead (from Coco), help Merida and her brothers through a beary rocky situation (from Brave), take an Continue Reading
Movie review: IF
(courtesy IMP Awards) There is a fine line between laudable intent and misfired execution in Hollywood and IF, unfortunately sails right through and over it, and around it, landing somewhere far away from where you can tell writer-director John Krasinski meant it to. It’s a pity because there’s such a Continue Reading
Big Disney animation reveal! Win or Lose, Toy Story 5, Moana 2 + news on Elio, Frozen III, Hoppers, Zootopia 2, Dream Productions and Incredibles 3
(via Shutterstock) If you are a super passionate Disney fan, then the odds are very good that you were in Anaheim, California just a few days ago for D23 billed as the “ultimate Disney fan event”. But if you couldn’t make the event itself, and without a Mary Poppins to Continue Reading
Movie review: Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
(courtesy IMP Awards) If you have ever gone through that messy period somewhere in your teens, and let’s face it, you must have unless some god or another equally mythical being simply threw you down to earth with creational bombast, you will be well acquainted with that sense of who Continue Reading