Tag: movie review
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Girl in the Spider’s Web (Álvarez, 2018)
> Date Seen: 19th November 2018 < -Spoilers Alert- When I first heard that there was a new Girl with the Dragon Tattoo film being made with Claire Foy playing the lead of Lisbeth Salander I could not imagine the actress who played the soft small character of Amy Dorrit from Little Dorrit (Smith, […]