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 […]
Coming to Disney+ on Christmas day, we got the opportunity to see Disney Pixar’s Soul a little bit earlier as part of London Film Festival 2020. Directed by Pete Docter (Monsters Inc., UP and Inside Out) and co-directed by Kemp Powers, Soul follows Joe Gardner, a middle school band teacher who dreams of one day
Originally scheduled for a cinematic release, but now arriving on Disney+ instead, The One and Only Ivan is the latest in a long line of stories involving CGI animals who can talk, banding together to outsmart us humans in order to escape captivity. Only this one is actually based on a true story. There were
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The final list in our series of top 10 animation posts is ‘other’ – basically, anything that isn’t Disney or Pixar animation. Movies that don’t fit into either of those groups are probably the reason that we decided to split the animation category into three lists, as there are so many different and wonderful ‘other’
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Welcome to the second of our top 10 animation posts, following our Top 10 Disney Animation Movies last week. This time, it’s the turn of Pixar. 10. Toy Story 4 (2019) Clare: I’m really mad this made it in to the Top 10 and still refuse to acknowledge it’s existence within the Toy Story canon.
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Welcome to the first in a series of Top 10 posts covering the world of animated movies. When we first decided to do a top 10 animation list, it quickly became clear that with so many wonderful and varied movies to choose from, we were going to have a hard time in coming up a
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I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you how big a hit 2013 movie Frozen was. For a long while after it was released, you couldn’t go on social media, or even turn on a TV, without seeing mention of Frozen in some form. And you couldn’t really avoid hearing somebody bash out their
Disney’s 1994 animated version of The Lion King was a huge hit. Not only did it win Academy Awards for original score (courtesy of the amazing Hans Zimmer) but also for original song “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” by Elton John & Tim Rice. It also won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture
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This week sees the release of Disney’s latest live-action adaptation. Aladdin. Street rat Aladdin and mischievous monkey Abu battle to save free-spirited Princess Jasmine and the people of Agrabah from the clutches of evil sorcerer Jafar. After discovering a magic lamp Aladdin’s life is turned upside down, releasing a powerful Genie who grants him three
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It’s set to be a busy year for live action Disney remakes, with Aladdin and The Lion King already lined up for release this year. Kicking things off though, is this reimagining of the 1941 classic Dumbo, with Tim Burton directing. It’s 1919 and Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) has returned from World War I, arriving by
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