1 January 2012
Cast: Jeanne Balibar, Nicolas Buysse, Stéphane Aubier
Script: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar
Genre: animation
9 Stars
6 Comments
In a town (or village) called Panic live Indian, Cowboy, and Horse. But Cowboy & Indian have forgotten that it is Horse’s birthday. What will they get him as a present? He already has hats! But what about a barbecue? … Continue reading
27 April 2011
Cast: Paige O'Hara, Richard White, Robby Benson
Script: Linda Woolverton
Genre: animation, sff
8 Stars
8 Comments
IMDb Watched as part of this year’s Once Upon a Time Quest On-Screen I’d say almost everyone knows the plot outline to Beauty and the Beast, a father imprisoned by a beast, a daughter who takes her father’s place, and … Continue reading
9 November 2009
Cast: Anna Faris, Bill Murray, Eric Anderson, George Clooney, Jason Schwartzman, Jesse Plemons, Meryl Streep, Michael Peña, Wally Wolodarsky
Script: Jody Hill, Noah Baumbach, Wes Anderson
Genre: animation, failure, Juv/YA
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based on book by Roald Dahl If you haven’t seen this film then quick, go now. It isn’t that I’m going to spoil it on you, it is simply that its brilliant. You’ll love it[1] And if you don’t then … Continue reading
22 August 2006
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Rory Cochrane, Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson
Script: Richard Linklater
Genre: animation, sff
7 Stars
5 Comments
I have come to conclusion that I dislike this new animation style of digital-rotoscoping. That is where actors are filmed and then converted into animation using some computer aided magic. (As you can see I am all up on the … Continue reading
28 July 2006
Cast: Catherine McCormack, Daniel Craig, Ian Holm, Romola Garai
Script: Alexandre de La Patelliere, Jean-Bernard Pouy, Patrick Raynal
Genre: animation, sff
Setting: France, future
6 Stars
2 Comments
It is 2054, Paris and a young woman has just been kidnapped. Karas, a police captain specialising in kidnapping is charged to find her, and to find her alive. The company she works for, Avalon, are very insistent that this … Continue reading
5 November 2005
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Kay, Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes
Genre: animation
7 Stars
2 Comments
The first feature length outing for Wallace and Gromit sees them in the vegetable-protection industry. As AntiPesto they specialise in keeping the village’s prized vegetables safe from the ever hungry mouths of rabbits. In a humane manner. The Annual Giant … Continue reading
24 October 2005
Cast: Billy Crystal, Christian Bale, Emily Mortimer, Jean Simmons, Lauren Bacall
Script: Hayao Miyazaki
Genre: animation, sff
8 Stars
5 Comments
I always meant to see Spirited Away, but never got around to it, so I’m glad I got a chance to see this film, by the same director, in the cinema. Based on the book of the same title by … Continue reading
22 October 2005
Cast: Emily Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Paul Whitehouse, Tracey Ullman
Script: Caroline Thompson, John August, Pamela Pettler
Genre: animation, romance, sff
8 Stars
2 Comments
Poor old Victor just can’t get his through his wedding rehearsal, can’t remember his lines, bumps into things, sets the bride’s mother on fire. It is all enough to send anyone running for the woods. But Victor has fallen in … Continue reading
15 July 2004
Cast: Betty Bonifassi, Jean-Claude Donda, Lina Boudreault, Michéle Caucheteux
Genre: animation, musical
Setting: France
7 Stars
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This is film that got quite a lot of attention when it came out, but I will admit to being a little put of by the trailer, and as it didn’t stay in my local cinema for very long I … Continue reading