stop motion animation Archives - 4 Out Of 5 Reviews

‘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 […]

‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ at 30 – Review Read More »

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) Review

About 40 minutes into this latest take on Pinocchio you might be feeling like it’s a pretty standard re-telling of the story using the most labour-intensive form of animation there is. But then the wooden boy ends up in a kind of limbo, escorted by undead rabbits to an audience with the sphinx-like Angel of

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) Review Read More »

Fantastic Mr Fox (2009) Review

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Director: Wes Anderson Screenwriters: Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Michael Gambon, Brian Cox, Owen Wilson Having made a name for himself with five live-action features, it was somewhat of a left field decision for auteur Wes Anderson to take on a stop-motion animation project

Fantastic Mr Fox (2009) Review Read More »