Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Wallace and Gromit take on beaked diamond thief Feathers McGraw once again in their latest Christmas caper. It’s allmost twenty years since their last feature-length outing, and 31 years since […]
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
The sarcastic joke that spawned a franchise, the pizza-loving posse are back in this animated outing from The Mitchells vs. the Machines director Jeff Rowe. Presumably Jon Turteltaub was busy. […]
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The multiverse Spideys are back in this web-slinging, head-spinning sequel, sadly missing the opportunity for an updated theme song: Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Spider-Maaan, Spider-Man… you get the idea. Across […]
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Everyone’s favourite fugitive is back at DreamWorks – no I don’t mean Alec Baldwin is doing another Boss Baby movie. That would be as mad as continuing to make Rust. […]
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
The concept of twin films is well documented, but 2022 offered triplet films in the form of three Pinocchio adaptations: Robert Zemeckis’ live-action Pinocchio, the Russian animation Pinocchio: A True […]
On iPlayer: The Secret of Kells
Starting their tradition of losing Oscars to Pixar, Cartoon Saloon’s first feature concerns the creation of the Book of Kells – an Irish national treasure up there with Graham Linehan […]
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
The EastEnders/Matrix crossover we have all been waiting for arrives in the form of The Mitchells vs. the Machines, a Netflix animated feature about a wacky family caught up in […]
Wolfwalkers
For clear evidence of the American imperialism inherent in the Oscars, look no further than the Best Animated Feature category; a catalogue of sub-par Pixar efforts beating masterpieces from the […]
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
This 2015 documentary celebrates Aardman’s 43rd anniversary – presumably aiming for its 40th but delayed by the claymation process. A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman is as delightful […]
How to Train Your Dragon
Some very Scottish vikings live in a constant state of war with the dragons breathing down their necks, until the chief’s son (Jay Baruchel) encounters a peaceful dragon and proves […]
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