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‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ at 30 – Review

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)Director: Henry SelickScreenwriter: Caroline ThompsonStarring: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O’Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix, Paul Reubens, Ken Page, Edward Ivory If a single word can be used to describe “Tim Burton’s” The Nightmare Before Christmas, it would be “alternative”. Released two years before Pixar’s Toy Story, it was Disney’s first […]

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‘WALL-E’ at 15 – Review

WALL-E (2008)Director: Andrew StantonScreenwriters: Andrew Stanton, Jim ReardonStarring: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver, Fred Willard WALL-E was Pixar Animation Studios’ ninth feature-length movie and 2008’s ninth highest-grossing film. But with worldwide takings ‘only’ a little over $521million, it doesn’t even come close to Pixar’s top-grossing movies – Incredibles

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Elemental (2023) Review

Elemental (2023)Director: Peter SohnScreenwriters: John Hoberg, Kat Likkel, Brenda HsuehStarring: Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie del Carmen, Shila Ommi, Mason Wertheimer, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Catherine O’Hara, Ronobir Lahiri, Joe Pera, Matt Yang Kang With dazzling, kaleidoscopic visuals and a sweet rom-com storyline, Elemental shows us that the things that make us different can also make us

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Peter Pan and Wendy (2023) Review

This Captain Hook is not a gentleman pirate but a neurotic and paranoid man-child who overcompensates massively for ageing and for his sad history with Peter by vainly dying his greying hair and attaching a particularly mean-looking butcher’s meat hook at the end of his arm. Lowery’s film stands out as one of the few

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

There’s a fair amount of nightmare fuel in this particular kid’s movie, from Snow White’s escape through a psychedelic dark forest to pretty much every scene with the Evil Queen. The moment where she takes a magic potion to alter her appearance to fool Snow White, transforming into an old crone in a cloud of

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‘The Muppet Christmas Carol’ at 30 – Review

Gonzo and Rizzo being one of the main sources of the film’s comedy illustrates the intuitive casting of The Muppet Christmas Carol: human and Muppet. This is the first of the Muppets’ feature length movies in which the fuzzy puppets aren’t the narrative focus of the plot; the movie is more akin to ‘The Muppet

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‘Hercules’ at 25 – Review

Hercules (1997) Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker Screenwriters: Ron Clements, John Musker, Don McEnery, Bob Shaw, Irene Mecchi Starring: Tate Donovan, Susan Egan, James Woods, Danny DeVito, Rip Torn, Bobcat Goldthwait, Matt Frewer, Hal Holbrook, Barbara Barrie, Paul Shaffer Following their latest attempt to get their dream project Treasure Planet off the starting blocks (which

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Turning Red (2022) Review

Turning Red (2022) Director: Domee Shi Screenwriters: Domee Shi, Julia Cho, Sarah Streicher Starring: Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Ava Morse, Hyein Park, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Orion Lee, Wai Ching Ho, Tristan Allerick Chen, Lori Tan Chinn, James Hong Turning Red, the feature directorial debut of Domee Shi (Oscar-winner for the animation short Bao) is one of

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Home Sweet Home Alone (2021) Review

Home Sweet Home Alone (2021) Director: Dan Mazer Screenplay: Mikey Day, Streeter Seidell Starring: Archie Yates, Aisling Bea, Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney, Kenan Thompson, Timothy Simons, Ally Maki, Pete Holmes, Chris Parnell, Devin Ratray When Disney purchased Fox in 2019, the House of Mouse – already on course to milk every possible cash cow they

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‘Beauty and the Beast’ at 30 – Review

Beauty and the Beast (1991) Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise Screenwriters: Linda Woolverton, Brenda Chapman, Chris Sanders Starring: Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Jesse Corti, Rex Everhart, Bradley Pierce 18th Century French fairy tale “La Belle et la Bête” is one of the best-known, most influential and

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