Tag: computer animation

Toy Story 5

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Post date June 19 2026
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Directors – Kenna Harris, Andrew Stanton – 2026 – US – Cert. PG – 102m ***1/2 The toys become sidelined when their child is given a screen-based tech device and she abandons them to spend all her time interacting with it – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 19th After a damaged package of High-Tech […]

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Terminator 2
Judgement Day

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Post date April 11 2026
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Judgement Day
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Director – James Cameron – 1991 – US – Cert. 15 – 127m ***** A second Terminator is sent from the future to kill the future leader of the war against the machines – opening film in Film Tottenham’s upcoming programme celebrating female action heroes, plays Sunday, April 12th 2026, 6.30 for 7pm start In […]

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The Bad Guys 2

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Post date July 25 2025
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Director – Pierre Perifel Co-Director JP Sans – 2025 – US – Cert. PG – 104m **** A criminal gang of animals led by a wolf mastermind attempts to go straight but are extorted into doing one last job – animated feature sequel is out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 25th Like its predecessor, […]

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Flow
(Straume)
(2024)

Director – Gints Zilbalodis – 2024 – Belgium, France, Latvia – Cert. U – 84m ***** A cat must survive rising water levels as they engulf both the countryside and cities – remarkable, dialogue-free, computer animated feature is out now on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD Like his earlier Away (2019), Zilbalodis’ new CG animated […]

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Away

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Post date August 27 2020
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Director – Gints Zilbalodis – 2019 – Latvia – Cert. U – 75m****1/2From the director of Oscar winner Flow (2024), his debut animated feature Away is exclusively back in cinemas from Friday, March 14th It originally played in the 2019 Annecy International Animation Festival. A boy hangs from a tree by a parachute in a […]

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The Snow Queen
Magic of the Ice Mirror
(Snezhnaya Koroleva 2
Perezamorozka)

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Post date October 24 2024
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Magic of the Ice Mirror
(Snezhnaya Koroleva 2
Perezamorozka)

Director – Alex Tsitsilin – 2014 – Russia – Cert. U – 81m * Sequel to The Snow Queen is a lacklustre CG effort, with script as perfunctory and animation as lacking in character as the worst video game. Orm the troll returns to Troll City following his vanquishing of The Snow Queen in the […]

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Transformers One

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Post date October 11 2024
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Director – Josh Cooley – 2023 – US – Cert. PG – 104m *** The origin story of the hero and villain of the Transformers in a long-distant past on their home planet – animated prequel is out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 11th In a city deep in the bowels of his planet, […]

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Dragonkeeper
(Gardiana de Dragones)

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Post date September 25 2024
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(Gardiana de Dragones)
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Director – Li Jianping, Salvador Simó – 2023 – Spain, China – Cert. PG – 98m **** Faced by powerful forces of empire and a ruthless traitor, a girl must accompany an old dragon to ensure the survival of its egg – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 27th Ancient China. As revealed in […]

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Wilding

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Post date June 14 2024
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Isabella Tree, as played by Rhiannon Neads

Director – David Allen – 2023 – UK – Cert. PG – 75m ***** How Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell closed down their failing farm and instead let nature run wild to regenerate the land’s depleted biodiversity – inspiring documentary is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree (Lady […]

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Animation Features Live Action Movies

Deep Sea
(Shen Hai,
深海)

Director – Tian Xiaoping – 2023 – China – Cert. PG – 112m Subtitled ***1/2 / Dubbed ** A girl on a cruise, who never got over her mother leaving, falls overboard into fantastical worlds – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 7th A red child’s coat with a hood lies abandoned on the […]

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