Hoppers
Not to be confused with Jodie Foster’s Beaver, this Pixar flick sees nature-loving Mabel (Piper Curda) stumble into the “Hoppers” programme, where a team of benevolent scientists hook themselves up […]
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Angel’s Egg
Ten years before Ghost in the Shell, Mamoru Oshii got his first taste of shell-based sci-fi in this 1985 anime about a girl (Mako Hyōdō) protecting a big egg, presumably […]
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Everyone’s favourite plasticine chicken is back! But enough about Brexit’s impact on UK food standards. Here’s the 2023 Netflix sequel to Chicken Run. Having eggscaped the evil cluckches of Mrs. […]
The Great Mouse Detective
A mouse who lives in Sherlock Holmes’ cellar solves rodent-based crimes in this 1986 Disney flick they should have called The Grate Detective. Arriving just ahead of the ’90s Disney […]
KPop Demon Hunters
A K-pop girl group who fight demons meet their greatest challenge yet when the forces of darkness unleash a demonic boy band, just like Mumford & Sons. It is hard […]
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 […]
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 […]
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