Back in March 2020, we featured the trailer for an animated movie called Connected in one of our TrailerChat posts, an action-comedy about an ordinary family tasked with the job of saving the world from a robot apocalypse. Scheduled for an October release, team CineChat were all well and truly sold on the trailer… well, […]
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Arriving on Netflix today, Thunder Force is a superhero comedy about two childhood friends who reunite as adults to become a superhero team. It stars real-life friends of more than 20 years, Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer and is written, directed and produced by McCarthy’s husband, Ben Falcone. Taking us back to 1983, much of
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“The noise is a man’s thoughts unfiltered and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.” From director Doug Liman, Chaos Walking is based on the first of a trilogy of young adult science fiction books – 2008’s ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’, by Patrick Ness. Starring Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland, along
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Invincible is the latest in a long line of comic book adaptations that I feel ashamed to say I had never heard of before watching it. An adult animated superhero show, it’s brought to us by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and the first three of its eight episodes will be arriving on Amazon
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The Witches is a 2020 retelling of the Roald Dahl children’s story, from director Robert Zemeckis. Remakes and reboots have been commonplace in the movies for quite some time, so it’s no surprise that The Witches has been given a Hollywood makeover, especially as it has been 30 years since the original film adaptation was
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The Adventures of Wolfboy, also known as The True Adventures of Wolfboy, is a 2021 coming of age style drama and the feature film debut from Czech director Martin Krejcí. It follows Paul, a teenager with a life-changing physical condition called congenital hypertrichosis that causes an abnormal and excessive amount of hair growth across his
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A reimagining of the Italian cartoon, Fate: the Winx Saga is a coming-of-age story set in a magical boarding school where fairies learn to use and control their powers. Assigned the same dormroom, a group of 5 young girls form unlikely friendships and navigate everyday emotional traumas like love and heartbreak whilst also battling some foes along the way. We
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Star Trek Lower Decks is going forward to the next frontier – animation. Now whilst this isn’t the first animated Star Trek series, it’s certainly a different take on one and as the ship itself is all about second contacts, it feels fitting that this is the second of its kind also. Lower Decks focuses on the support crew
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Film(s) #11 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Film 11 is actually the three films that make up the Lord of the Rings trilogy: Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and Return of the King. Whilst I can entirely understand featuring the trilogy as a whole, especially as
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On Friday, the long awaited return of the MCU arrived. But for this viewer, it was never about the return of the MCU, it was always about Wanda. First teased well over a year ago, every plot detail given WandaVision sounded more and more like a fever dream pulled from my mind. As you may have seen from our Sitcoms Top
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Though Wonder Woman 1984 came out in 2020, like many based in the UK I was unable to see it upon its initial release. Riding out the twitter storm that followed it’s HBO Max release, I did my best to avoid the majority of spoilers, but I knew the opinion was mixed. I went in with an open
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Away is a multi-award-winning animation, single-handedly created by Latvian filmmaker and animator Gints Zilbalodis on a shoestring budget. It has earned a 100% fresh rating on review-aggregation website rotten tomatoes and, in what now appears to be something of a regular occurrence for me, it turned out to be yet another movie that I absolutely
Film #9 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: Toy Story When Toy Story was first released in 1995, it was groundbreaking. The first-ever fully computer-animated film and the first released by Disney Pixar, this was also one of the first films I saw at the cinema as an 8-year-old child. Admittedly at that age, I
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Mulan (2020) is a live-action adaptation of the 1998 Disney animation of the same name, the latest in the live-action remakes of Disney classics based on a young woman who disguises herself as a male soldier to save her father. I’ll start with an admission: I’ve never seen the original animated Mulan. Despite being an
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As I settled down to watch this sequel to the 2018 Netflix Christmas hit, I suddenly realised how very little I could actually remember about the first movie. I know that Kurt Russell starred as probably the coolest Santa I’d seen in a very long time, Christmas was in jeopardy and there was a brief
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After experiencing the incredible Wolfwalkers at last months London Film Festival, I vowed to correct the enormous mistake that I’d made of having never seen a Cartoon Saloon movie before. Director Tomm Moore followed 2009’s Oscar-nominated The Secret of Kells with Song of the Sea, which was also nominated for an Oscar in 2015 but
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