50 years ago, Aardman Animations burst onto screens in 1976 when a plastacine character named Morph appeared on the art programme Take Hart. Since then, the studio has grown, not only in size but in reputation, with creations like Wallace and Gromit, winning Oscars and hitting the big screen with movies like Chicken Run. One…
Tag: comedy
Resident Evil
Since it burst onto the PlayStation back in 1996, we have had six movies, from the husband-and-wife team Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich, and a reboot back in 2021 subtitled Welcome to Raccoon City, which has been forgotten by almost everyone, as well as a short-lived TV series. Enough time has passed for another…
Practical Magic 2
Practical Magic was a minor hit back in 1997 and while a strong cast, wasn’t that memorable. In fact, before visiting the sequel, I had to revisit and watch the original. It’s a fairly sweet natured tale of witches that made more of an impact when it hit home entertainment than in the cinema. Now,…
One Night Only
In Hollywood, a web platform lets writers submit their work for executives to vote on the best unproduced screenplays. In the past, films like Juno and The Imitation Game topped the site, so we are looking at quality work that eventually was made. I have a question. How did One Night Only get to be…
Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma
The slasher horrors of the 80s are often easy targets to ridicule due to the ridiculousness of their premises, particularly the Friday the 13th series. Yet no one has ever approached the popular horrors as a way to deal with the nature of the films, the sexual chaos of the franchise or even how they…
Coyote Vs Acme
Some films are never sure things, even after they’re completed. Coyote Vs Acme is one such film. Made back in 2023, it was shelved by Warner Bros Discovery as a tax write-off. However, Ketchup Entertainment managed to buy the rights and saved the film from never being seen, and we can thank them for doing…
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Someone recently said that the superhero movie was done and dusted, that public fatigue had grown, which is why films like Supergirl had failed miserably. Well, looking at the box office takings of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, it seems that there is still a hunger for the web-slinger. This fourth outing for the current incarnation…
Animal Farm
I have recently taken up reading more. It takes me away from scrolling on my phone, and to be honest, it has made me feel a whole lot better about myself. One of the books I read was George Orwell’s immortal Animal Farm. Written in 1945, it was an allegory of Stalinism set on a…
The Invite
One of the favourite approaches to filmmaking of late is making the audience feel uncomfortable. The Drama is a perfect example, as we watched a couple heading to the altar, but a secret spins their world around. You find yourself hiding in your hands as you watch things spiral out of control. Now we have…
Minions & Monsters
The Minions have always been the best thing about the Despicable Me movies and the introduction to the Illumination studios. For some reason, their standalone films have always struggled and were never as funny as the short bursts of Minion action in the Gru movies. Now we have their third film, Minions & Monsters, and…
Toy Story 5
About half way through watching Toy Story 5, my thoughts went to what made Toy Story 3 such a classic, and in particular, that moment when the floodgates were open and tears streamed down my face, and I wondered how a simple scene in which a group of toys, facing their ultimate doom and just…
Scary Movie
The legendary film critic Barry Norman once said of a movie, “Laugh? I thought I’d never start!” That is exactly how I felt about this sixth instalment of the spoof comedy (?) that I thought had died a death after number 5 back in 2013. Now the Wayans, who made the first two films, are…
