Turning Red – Review Phil W. Bayles March 12, 2022 Reviews With Turning Red, Pixar continues its recent trend of allowing diverse voices within the studio to tell new (and clearly very personal) stories. Directed by Domee Shi, who also made the delightful short Bao,...
Luca – Review Phil W. Bayles June 19, 2021 Reviews After giving us all an existential crisis with Soul, the folks at Pixar have taken things down a few notches with Luca. It’s a charming story about two boys - Luca (Jacob Tremblay) and Alberto (Jack Dylan...
Soul – LFF 2020 Review Rafaela Sales Ross October 15, 2020 Reviews With his lifelong dream close enough to taste, jazz musician Joe (Jamie Foxx) suddenly finds himself moving towards the gates of Heaven. Following an accident, the man’s body lies in a hospital bed while his...
Ralph Breaks the Internet – Review Joni Blyth December 1, 2018 Reviews Ultimately, whether you like Ralph Breaks the Internet comes down to a simple question that we must all ask ourselves at some point in our lives: How do you feel about billionaire conglomerates nakedly...
Scene Stealers: Barry Humphries in Finding Nemo Phil W. Bayles August 9, 2018 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Why do we never talk about how great the villains in Pixar movies are? From Sid in Toy Story to Randall in Monsters, Inc., the cold and analytical autopilot in WALL-E to Antoine Ego in Ratatouille, Pixar's...
Incredibles 2 – Review Jack Blackwell July 14, 2018 Reviews In the 14 years since the original Incredibles, the superhero genre has changed almost immeasurably. While, for the most part, the sequel avoids the new traditions and tropes that have sprung up, the...
My First Uprising: WALL-E’s Family-Friendly Revolution Joni Blyth June 28, 2018 Features, Love Letter Thracian gladiators. Highland knights. Petulant teenagers. These are the kinds of people who are born to lead revolutions. Courageous defiance comes with the territory of being a sword bearing, bow-wielding...
Team Talk – Coco David Brake January 21, 2018 Reviews January is terrible isn't it? It's dull, grey and it rains. Endlessly. If only there was a new animated flick, bursting with colours, vibrancy and soulful music... ? Luckily for us, Disney in all their...
Cel Mates: The Book of Life Rory Steabler January 18, 2018 CEL Mates, Features, Independent The Book of Life bears more than a passing resemblance to Pixar’s Coco, out this week. Obviously, both are based around the Mexican tradition of the Day of the Dead, and involve protagonists going on a...
Debate: What’s the Best Pixar Film? Tom Bond January 17, 2018 Analysis, Debate, Features 1 Comment With Pixar’s latest film Coco out this Friday, we thought it was the perfect opportunity to do what we love the most: argue about film. Our writers Rhys Handley and Jack Blackwell, and Features Editor...
Coco – Review Joni Blyth January 16, 2018 Reviews Vibrant and vivacious, the City of the Dead looks like a roaring good time on Día de los Muertos. The party is in full swing when Coco’s earnest protagonist Miguel arrives in the underworld to learn some...
Your Week In Film: Superheroes, Supersleuths and Stars Stephen O'Nion November 24, 2017 News 1. It’s that time of year, folks... Welcome to another edition of Gambit-chat. The all-too-regular column where we recap all the latest news about Gambit, a film that is definitely happening and definitely...
Scene Stealers: Peter O’Toole in Ratatouille Danielle Davenport September 20, 2017 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers This article is a One Room With A View first - the 'scene stealer' performance coming from an animated film, with Peter O'Toole's voice-acting rendition of Anton Ego. Ten years after the release of...
Cars 3 – Review Rachel Brook July 13, 2017 Reviews Although it’s hardly the most eagerly anticipated Pixar film of recent years, Cars 3 is great fun. While elements of the plot are nonsensical or just not adequately thought through, both the screenplay and...
Your Week In Film: Gilliam, Ghostbusters and more! Stephen O'Nion June 9, 2017 News 1. Don Quixote is coming… finally It’s taken nearly 20 years but Terry Gilliam has completed principal photography on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. No, we don’t believe it either. Gilliam’s quest...