Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem introduces a new iteration of the Ninja Turtles. Splinter (Jackie Chan) has hidden the Turtle Bros from the world, hoping to shelter them from cruel humans. However, Leonardo (Nicolas Cantu), Donatello (Micah Abbey), Raphael (Brady Noon), and Michelangelo (Shamon Brown Jr) want to be normal teenagers and do teenage […]
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Elemental is the latest animated offering from Pixar, delivering a familiar story but with a twist. It’s a love story involving two very different cultures, in this case, fire and water, and how their love helps eventually bring people together to live in harmony. The result though is entertaining but average. Before we get to
Disenchanted is the long-awaited sequel to Disney’s Enchanted, now streaming on Disney+. Coming 15 years after the original became a surprise hit, this sequel certainly retains all of the original’s charm, although it isn’t quite as fun. The film opens with an animated prologue of chipmunk Pip (voiced by Griffin Newman), who reads from a
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Back in 2020, I was lucky enough to catch Wolfwalkers as part of the London Film Festival. It was, I’m still ashamed to say, my first experience with the animation studio, Cartoon Saloon, which already had a number of Oscar-nominated titles under its belt. Wolfwalkers ended up being one of my favourite movies of that
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Lightyear is Pixar’s latest release, now available to watch on Disney+. Featuring the eponymous Space Ranger from the Toy Story films, Lightyear aims to bring something new to a character we know so well. But despite being a fun, enjoyable space romp, it fails to reinvent the wheel and justify its existence. The film opens
The first season of Undone was probably my favourite TV show of 2019. It was a trippy, sci-fi drama dealing with grief, trauma and mental illness, all beautifully told using wonderfully effective rotoscope animation. That style of animation provided a huge sense of realism while allowing for the more trippy aspects of the story to
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Based on Gege Akutami’s four-chapter prequel, Jujutsu Kaisen (JJK) 0 introduces a crucial character, Yuta Okkotsu, to the overall JJK story. Yuta is haunted by his childhood friend, Rika, who died after being hit by a car. Rika becomes a powerful, special grade curse that appears whenever Yuta is bullied and after four bullies are
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Turning Red is the newest Pixar release now available to stream on Disney+. Moving away from their customary adventure, buddy style movie format, Turning Red is decisively a coming-of-age story, and one that Pixar has turned into a heart-warming, fun and adorably cute tale. The film follows Meilin Lee (Rosalie Chiang), a thirteen-year-old academic overachiever,
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The Cuphead Show is a 12 episode animation series, coming to Netflix on February 18th. It is based on the critically acclaimed run-and-gun 2017 video game Cuphead (aka Cuphead: “Don’t Deal with the Devil”), originally an Xbox console exclusive, before making its way onto the Nintendo Switch, which was where I first encountered it. Inspired
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Belle is the story of Suzu, a girl in high school, still grieving the loss of her mother years prior. She’s invited to join U, a virtual reality social media app, but instead of creating an avatar, the app utilizes a biometric scan and in the world of U, Suzu becomes Belle. Suzu, who has
Encanto is Disney’s 60th animated motion picture; released in UK cinemas at the end of November to very little publicity, it’s now available to stream on Disney+. With a soundtrack by Lin-Manuel Miranda and focusing on a magical family, it’s a surprise then that the film is surprisingly lacking in the usual Disney magic. The
What If…? is the latest Marvel show to hit Disney+, an animated series that shows us what could have happened had events played out differently in the Marvel universe. Based on the Marvel comics and boasting the return of the majority of the original cast, What If…? is answering questions that I didn’t think we
Dug Days is a series of Disney Pixar shorts following on from the events of 2009’s Up, which in my opinion, is by far one of the best Pixar films ever released. Dug Days had big shoes to fill and surprisingly it manages to bring all of the heart and fun of the full-length film,
Earlier this year, Netflix released The Mitchells vs The Machines (still my number one movie of the year so far!) after acquiring it from Sony Pictures Animation. Now, after opting to forgo a cinematic release, Sony have licensed their latest movie Vivo to Netflix, where it will be streaming from August 6th. Directed by “The
Luca is the latest straight to Disney+ release from Pixar, and if you’ve been missing your summer holidays abroad over this past year due to the pandemic, immersing yourself in this beautiful Italian-set animation could be just what you need. Directed by Pixar artist and first-time director Enrico Casarosa, Luca follows a young sea monster
Trese is the newest Netflix Original Anime, based upon a Filipino comic by the same name. The show follows Alexandra Trese, who is a paranormal detective, and assists the police with paranormal crimes. The series is set in Manila, and creatures from the lore of the Philippines coexist alongside the humans. Trese is known as
