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News Muse – dreaming of film festivals
Bah! It’s that time of the year when I am dragging my tired winter feet over spring’s threshold and humming June is bustin’ out all over just to keep me going. And I start dreaming of festivals. No,...
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Cannes Lifts Off – but the world’s most glamorous film festival tones down...
The 62nd Cannes Film Festival lifts off today with the world premiere of Pixar’s Up, but as the red carpets are rolled out, reports are circulating that the Festival’s trademark glitz has been toned...
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News Hound | 15 May 2009
Movie Talk sniffs around the back alleys of the internet to bring you the latest showbiz news – so you don’t get your head stuck inside the wrong bin… Madeleine Stowe’s directorial debut Unbound...
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The Best view | Up – Pixar’s buoyant comedy adventure soars aloft
With their buoyant new movie, Up, those computer animation wizards at Pixar have come up with another cartoon gem to match such earlier triumphs as Toy Story, The Incredibles, Ratatouille and Wall·E....
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The Best View | 9 – Too grim for children; not clever enough for grown-ups
Animated movies have reached such heights of visual sophistication that we’ve come to take the most astonishing feats of technical virtuosity for granted. Which is all to the good. Now that we’ve...
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Out on DVD | Up – Pixar’s unlikely heroes float away to adventure
A racing certainty for this year’s Best Animated Film Oscar, Pixar’s buoyant comedy adventure Up is another triumph for the studio behind Toy Story, Ratatouille and Wall·E – and it’s just as...
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At the Cinema | Toy Story 3
After the sublime wonder of Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3 has been eagerly awaited with a mix of excitement and trepidation in our household. With two sons who have grown up thinking of Woody, Buzz and the...
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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…
Rise of the Planet of the Apes Monkey see, monkey do… This reboot of the classic movie franchise sees super-smart simian Caesar leading his fellow brutalised primates in an urban uprising. If you can...
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Film review | Brave – Pixar’s bow-wielding princess hits the bullseye
A pull-string cowboy sheriff, a rodent chef and a waste-collecting robot have all made their mark as Pixar heroes. Now, not before time, a girl takes centre stage in Brave, Pixar’s 13th animated film...
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Film review | Hotel Transylvania – Goofy backpacker gatecrashes the Monster Mash
Breezy computer animated comedy Hotel Transylvania turns familiar horror lore upside down: it’s the monsters that are running scared of humans. Fear not, Count Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) has...
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Film review | Planes – Without Pixar on board, Disney’s latest animated...
Inhabiting the same would-be quirky, talking-vehicle world as the Cars films, Disney’s animated comedy adventure Planes is a misfiring spin-off that fails to get off the ground. (Tellingly, Pixar...
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Film review | Justin and the Knights of Valour – Puny animated hero comes up...
Seeking to match the comic pizzazz of such DreamWorks and Pixar hits as Shrek, Puss in Boots and Brave, Spanish-made animated adventure Justin and the Knights of Valour falls disappointingly short,...
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Film review | Monsters University – Campus capers for Billy Crystal & John...
Pixar’s 2001 animated gem Monsters, Inc was so hilariously inventive and original that it’s hardly surprising that this belated prequel can’t quite recapture its predecessor’s magic, yet Monsters...
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The House of Magic | Film review – Ginger kitten’s quirky adventures will...
With its cute ginger kitten hero and a captivating supporting cast of quirky magical automata charming Belgian-made animated adventure The House of Magic will leave young viewers purring. Compared...
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