Chicken Run
In the original chick flick, the residents of an egg farm dream of escape from the tyrannical yoke of Mrs Tweedy (Miranda Richardson) and her scramble-brained husband. After hatching many […]
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Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon
There are certain characters you wouldn’t dream of sending into space (Sister Mary Clarence, James Bond) and others for whom it makes a strange kind of sense. It worked for […]
The Addams Family (2019)
Not content with having skinned Garfield, shelled Peanuts and reimagined Calvin and Hobbes as Hobbs and Shaw, Hollywood sets its hungry gaze on The Addams Family. This animated Addams outing sees the family […]
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
The release of the Terrance and Phillip movie leads to a war with Canada after Kyle’s mum accuses the nation of corrupting America’s children. In 1999 South Park was only […]
Mirai
My Neighbour Totoro meets Addams Family Values in this Japanese tale of a young boy’s jealousy towards his new baby sister, until the family dog sees fit to intervene in […]
Toy Story 4
Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz (Tim Allen) are back in this forkuel following Andy’s toys as they’re passed on to Alita: Battle Angel. The Toy Story trilogy concluded pretty perfectly […]
Missing Link
Hugh Jackman leaves Victorian London to prove the existence of Bigfoot in Missing Link, AKA The Greatest Abominable Snowman. The missing link in this case (apart from the dearth of […]
Bee Movie
A bee (Jerry Seinfeld), destined to slave in a honey factory for eternity, breaks free and discovers the precious golden goo is being sold to humans en masse and resolves […]
When Marnie Was There
Released in 2014, When Marnie Was There was Studio Ghibli’s final film – until 2020’s How Do You Live? was announced by Hayao Miyazaki, a man who comes out of retirement almost as often […]
The Grinch
Liberal icon the Grinch (Benedict Cumberbatch) valiantly continues the war on Christmas by taking on Whoville, the Christmassiest town south of Lapland, home to the obsessively festive Whos. Their insufferable […]
Screen Goblin 