By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest animated film from producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, following their Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Mitchells vs. The Machines is a madcap adventure from Sony Pictures Animation that mixes sci-fi action and zany comedy with sincere family drama about a queer, film-loving teen reconnecting… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Mitchells vs. The Machines
By John Corrado The MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-Head was a pop culture staple of the 1990s, following the misadventures of two idiot teenaged slackers voiced by the show’s creator, Mike Judge. A feature length film, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, was released in theatres at the height of the show’s popularity on December… Read More Blu-ray Review: Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Encanto is Disney’s 60th animated feature, and it’s a bright and colourful film that feels like somewhat of a return to the studio’s musical roots, while also pushing things forward in terms of cultural representation by setting its story in Colombia. While this is technically not Disney’s first film to… Read More Review: Encanto
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) DreamWorks Animation’s 2017 movie The Boss Baby was essentially a one-joke film. Yes, I know, it was loosely based on a picture book by Marla Freeze, and set up a whole world of baby corporate leaders. But the purpose of the movie was really just an excuse to… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Boss Baby: Family Business
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Spirit Untamed, one of the latest animated offerings from DreamWorks, is a spinoff of both their 2002 film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and the Netflix series Spirit Riding Free, and it’s the very definition of generic entertainment made to capitalize on an existing IP. The film mainly… Read More Blu-ray Review: Spirit Untamed
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest animated film from Waltz With Bashir filmmaker Ari Folman, Where is Anne Frank is a valuable and often moving animated history lesson that draws parallels between past and present discrimination. The film serves as an adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, but it takes a… Read More #TIFF21 Review: Where is Anne Frank (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Directed by Eric Warin and Tahir Rana, Charlotte is an animated biopic of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon (voiced by Keira Knightley), whose magnum opus was a biography in pictures titled Life? Or Theatre? painted during World War II, that is often credited as being the first graphic novel.… Read More #TIFF21 Review: Charlotte (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) When I say that PAW Patrol: The Movie, a feature length spinoff of the popular Canadian children’s television show, is surprisingly pretty good, I feel like I should clarify that statement by adding “for a PAW Patrol movie.” I do not say this to throw any shade on… Read More Review: PAW Patrol: The Movie
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Following the wild successes of Loki, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and WandaVision on Disney+ earlier this year, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is now delivering its first official animated series with What If…?, which takes advantage of the medium to offer a series of condensed side adventures… Read More Disney+ Review: What If…? (First Three Episodes)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Twenty years after the release of Monsters, Inc., which already got an official prequel in 2013 with Monsters University, we are now getting a spinoff and continuation of that Pixar classic in the form of the new Disney+ series Monsters at Work. The ten-episode series is set in… Read More Disney+ Review: Monsters at Work (First Two Episodes)
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Enrico Casarosa, the director behind Pixar’s wonderful new feature Luca, has cited the works of Hayao Miyazaki and the Japanese animated films of Studio Ghibli as sources of inspiration for his Italy-set film. While this might seem like an odd thing to say, since Pixar has its own… Read More Disney+ Review: Luca
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A Canadian animated film from the Quebec company 10th Ave Productions, Felix and the Treasure of Morgäa is an enjoyable family adventure movie set in the Magdalen Islands. The film follows a 12-year-old boy named Felix (Daniel Brochu), who believes that his fisherman father, who disappeared at sea… Read More VOD Review: Felix and the Treasure of Morgäa
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) 2021 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature Like all of Aardman’s productions, it’s clear watching A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon that this film was a labour of love for all involved. The claymation animation is not only incredibly well done, but also a delight to watch, with… Read More Netflix Review: A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) 2021 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature Over the Moon is a brightly coloured animated musical that serves as the feature directorial debut of former Disney animator Glen Keane, who previously won an Oscar for his 2017 short film Dear Basketball. The film has some appealing elements,… Read More Netflix Review: Over the Moon
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) An elderly couple gets a chance to relive their youth over one magical night in Us Again, a charming and poignant new short film from Walt Disney Animation Studios. It will be playing in theatres in front of Raya and the Last Dragon starting this weekend, before being released… Read More Disney+ Review: Us Again
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Raya and the Last Dragon, Disney’s 59th official animated film, has some of the hallmarks of a Disney Princess movie, while also feeling like somewhat of a departure for the studio. Not only is this their first film to feature a Southeast Asian Princess, there are also no… Read More Disney+ Review: Raya and the Last Dragon
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) DreamWorks Animation returns to prehistoric times in The Croods: A New Age, the long-in-development sequel to their 2013 box office hit The Croods. This follow-up film, which is arriving on Blu-ray this week following a limited release in theatres and on PVOD, pretty much offers more of the… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Croods: A New Age
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is the third feature length adventure for the cartoon sea sponge, and also the first fully computer generated one. The result is something that, while far from being the best SpongeBob movie (which is still the 2004 original), still serves as… Read More Blu-ray Review: The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
By John Corrado SpongeBob SquarePants has been on the air for over two decades now, and the complete twelfth season of the Nickelodeon cartoon is being released on DVD this week. The set comes with all 25 episodes from the season spread across three discs, and the Bikini Bottom adventures included herein serve as familiar… Read More DVD Review: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete Twelfth Season
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Pixar’s latest film Soul, which is premiering on Disney Plus on Christmas Day after having its theatrical release cancelled due to ongoing theatre closures, shares a lot of common DNA with the studio’s 2015 film Inside Out. Now in case you think I’m saying that Soul feels like… Read More Disney+ Review: Soul
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