Category: #AYearOfFilm

• Funan (Do, 2018)

  > Date Seen: 14th November 2018 < -Spoilers Alert-   The film is a powerful 2D animation following a family torn apart during the Khmer Rouge revolution and their struggle to survive and find one another again. I got to see this film as part of the Manchester Animation Festival 2018 where it was screened…

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  April 21, 2019

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• Missing Link (Butler, 2019)

  > Date Seen: 11th April 2019 < -Spoilers Alert- It will not surprise anyone to know that I am a fan of the animation studio Laika, being that ten years ago they released my favourite film Coraline (Selick, 2009) and since have created three more equally beautiful and dark sided stories centring around children and…

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  April 15, 2019

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• Dumbo (Burton, 2019)

  

  > Date Seen: 29th March 2019 < -Spoilers Alert- When I heard that Tim Burton was going to be directing a live action version of this old Disney animation I was intrigued to say the least! I couldn’t imagine his artistic style in a live action remake of this sweet elephant tale, but it all…

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  April 8, 2019

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• What Men Want (Shankman, 2019)

  

  > Date Seen: 4th March 2019 < -Spoilers Alert- If you’ve ever seen What Women Want (Meyers, 2000) then of course this film will ring a bell as a remake of this old comedy – with the opposite genders. So instead of this chauvinistic man (played by Mel Gibson) getting to hear women’s thoughts it…

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  March 11, 2019

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  #AYearOfFilm, 2019, a year of film, cinema, cineworld, comedy, feig, film, film review, gender issues, ghostbusters, hear mens thoughts, henson, joan rivers, mel gibson, meyers, movie, movie review, opposite genders, racism, re-makes, respect others, sexism, shankman, sister, taraji, taraji p henson, tea, tupac, unlimited card, what men want, what women want

• How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (DeBlois, 2019)

  

  > Date Seen: 22nd February 2019 < -Spoilers Alert- I have been a fan of the How to Train Your Dragon series ever since I read the books by Cressida Cowell when I was a kid and when DreamWorks decided to bring these epic little drawings and World of that story to life in an…

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  March 4, 2019

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• Glass (Shyamalan, 2019)

  > Date Seen: 5th February 2019 < -Spoilers Alert-   For those of you who have never heard of M. Night Shyamalan or seen either Unbreakable (Shyamalan, 2000) or Split (Shyamalan, 2016) you may not know much about Glass or be as excited to see it as those who have. If you are such a…

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  February 13, 2019

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• The Favourite (Lanthimos, 2018)

  > Date Seen: 8th January 2018 < -Spoilers Alert-   When I saw there was a film with Olivia Colman (playing Queen Anne), Rachel Weisz (playing Lady Sarah) and Emma Stone (playing Abigail) in the leading roles of the story I was very excited and knew I wanted to see the film, strengthened by it’s…

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  February 4, 2019

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• Tito and the Birds (Bitar, Catoto & Steinberg, 2018)

  Tito e os Pássaros (original title) > Date Seen: 13th November 2018 < -Spoilers Alert-   This was one of a few feature film debuts that were screened during the Manchester Animation Festival 2018, however in this films case I went in blind as I knew nothing about the film prior to entering the cinema…

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  February 3, 2019

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• Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires (Mort, 2018)

  > Date Seen: 13th November 2018 < -Spoilers Alert-   This film was another we viewed before being part of a Q&A session with the director in Manchester Animation Festival 2018. I personally have been looking forward to this film since I learnt about Mike More and his Chuck Steel short at the last Manchester…

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  January 27, 2019

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• Colette (Westmoreland, 2018)

  Firstly I want to say sorry for the radio silence over these first few weeks of the New Year, Hope you all have had a wonderful start to 2019! I personally needed to take some time off of my online work for a little bit. After a busy few months I decided to take some…

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  January 21, 2019

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