Princess Mononoke
A demonic curse leads the young prince Ashitaka (Yōji Matsuda) to San (Yuriko Ishida) AKA Princess Mononoke; a raised-by-wolves eco-warrior and a princess in name only, like Leia or Eugenie. The war between civilisation […]
Tag Archives: animation
Wave Twisters
With Blade Runner 2049 folding at the box office like an origami unicorn, let’s look back on a film that’s equally confusing and 2 hours shorter: Wave Twisters. Or as they say […]
The Red Turtle
From the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Finding Nemo, turtles have a reputation in Hollywood of being crass or stoned. As ever, it’s up to a foreign film to redress […]
The Lego Batman Movie
Everyone’s favourite square-headed superhero is back! No, not Henry Cavill – it’s The Lego Batman Movie. In this Lego Movie spin-off, Bruce “The Greatest Orphan of All Time” Wayne (Will Arnett) […]
Mary and Max
Mary (Toni Collette) is an 8-year-old living in Melbourne; Max (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a 44-year-old New Yorker. The two become unlikely pen pals in this Australian animation. Aardman meets […]
Despicable Me
Incompetent super-villain Gru (Steve Carell) hatches a plan to steal the Moon, in order to prove his criminal mastermind credentials to his evil peers and disparaging mother. Although it uses ideas familiar from Pixar’s The Incredibles and Joss […]
Puss in Boots
Rounding off our reviews of the less beloved films in the Shrek franchise, Puss in Boots tells the cat’s backstory in a quest to find the golden eggs from the top of a beanstalk. Along […]
Zootropolis
Disney’s latest animation has more names than Snoop Dogg. In the UK it’s Zootropolis, in the US Zootopia, in Germany Zoomania and in China the very catchy Crazy Animal City. So in […]
Song of the Sea
Two young siblings face a magical journey home in this 2014 animation, based on the Irish myth of the selkie. Like Inside Out, the film concerns childhood sadness, but unlike […]
Spirited Away
I regret to say that I’ve never seen an anime film. Given the number of fans the genre has even in the West, and the critical acclaim it receives, this […]
Screen Goblin 