To the Moon and Back: A History of Aardman in Seven(ish) Films Nick Evan-Cook January 26, 2018 Analysis, CEL Mates, Features This month sees the release of Early Man, the seventh feature-length offering from Bristol's own Aardman Animations. As you'd have every right to expect from the studio, Early Man is a heart-warming and...
Trolls – LFF 2016 Review Tori Brazier October 11, 2016 Reviews Trolls. Is. So. Colourful. In theory, this sounded like its only virtue, seeming like a misjudged cash-grabbing exercise with a passé '90s toy. Happily, however, Trolls subverts expectations with an...
CEL Mates: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Nick Evan-Cook October 7, 2015 CEL Mates, Features, Independent Here's one to make you feel old: Wallace and Gromit's debut feature film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit turns ten years old this month - but instead of sitting and pondering the fleeting nature of time, what...
Home – Review Danielle Davenport March 20, 2015 Reviews Home is an enjoyable family movie. All the ingredients for DreamWorks magic are present: imagination, expert animation and plenty of comic charm. While perhaps not as precise as the creators may have hoped...
Best Films Never Made #21: Steven Spielberg’s Interstellar Tom Bond November 11, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is without doubt the most ambitious film of 2014. Steven Spielberg’s version might just have been better. If you’ve read anything about Nolan’s space epic in the...
Adults and Animation – The Growing Acceptance of Animation Amongst Grown Ups Conor Morgan August 3, 2014 CEL Mates, Features, Independent Without a doubt, you will have heard the song Let It Go from Disney's animated film Frozen in the past few months. If you're saying you haven't, then you're lying - since its release in December, it's been...
How To Train Your Dragon 2 – Review Christopher Preston July 3, 2014 Reviews Dragons really are the myth du jour. Daenerys Targaryen’s beastly brood continues to incinerate all of HBO’s competition, while Smaug, Tolkien’s monstrous kleptomaniac, is looking to drag another $1bn of...
Are DreamWorks Secretly The New Kings Of Animation? Calum Baker May 27, 2014 Analysis, Features, Opinion 2 Comments Let's face it: DreamWorks Animation has never been a marquee-topper in the same vein as Walt Disney, Pixar, or even overseas houses Studio Ghibli and Aardman. They've never broken a billion. They rarely win...