Tag: magic

Diplo,
The Mighty Dinosaur
(Smok Diplodok,
original title:
Diplodocus)

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Post date June 23 2024
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The Mighty Dinosaur
(Smok Diplodok,
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Director – Wojtek Wawszczyk – 2024 – Poland, Czechia – Cert. U – 84m **** A young diplodocus must save the comic book in which he lives from being erased by the artist who created it – from the 2024 Annecy International Animation Festival in the Annecy Presents section, out in UK cinemas on Friday, […]

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Alienoid
(Oegye+in 1bu,
외계+인)

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Post date November 6 2022
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Director – Choi Dong-hoon – 2022 – South Korea – LKFF Cert. 12 – 142m ***** In Part One of a proposed double feature, aliens incarcerate prisoners in human brains and time travel between present day and fourteenth century Korea and mayhem ensues – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2022; Part Two Alienoid: […]

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Rebellious

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Post date October 24 2024
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Director – Alex Tsitsilin – 2023 – UK, Cyprus – Cert. PG – 94m *** Her true love must rescue the princess before three rival princes after a dragon abducts her on behalf of an evil wizard – fairy tale animation is out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 25th A dad reads his small […]

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Hellboy
The Crooked Man

Director – Brian Taylor – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 99m **1/2 Hellboy must confront a dark labyrinth of hills, the Crooked Man who tricks people out of their souls, and some unresolved family matter from his own past– latest franchise reboot is out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 13th 1959. Hellboy […]

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The Young Taoism Fighter
(Ying Yang Qi Bin,
阴阳奇兵)

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Post date September 23 2024
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(Ying Yang Qi Bin,
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Director – Chen Chi-Hwa – 1986 – Taiwan – Cert. 15 – 84m ***1/2 A lazy martial arts student experimenting with magic finds himself helping a girl warrior against a sorcerer and his master – on Blu-ray from Monday, September 23rd At the Taoist martial arts training school Ying Yang Hall, two students are wont […]

Animation Art Exhibitions Movies

LAIKA
FRAME x FRAME

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Post date August 19 2024
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FRAME x FRAME
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Pic: Toby Lewis Thomas, courtesy LAIKA and BFI

***** Exhibition shows at BFI Southbank from Monday, 12th August to Tuesday 1st October 2024 (free to visit, but booking essential – click here) accompanied by the Stop Motion animation season including all five LAIKA feature films and much, much more In the best part of two decades, US-based Laika Studios – named after the […]

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Orphée

Director – Jean Cocteau – 1950 – France – Cert. PG – 112m ***** Acquitted by mirrors! Rereleased two thirds of a century on, Cocteau’s reimagining of the Greek legend of Orpheus remains as magical as ever – out in the UK on Friday, October 19th, 2018 Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was a self-styled ‘poet’, a versatile, avant-garde […]

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Wish

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Post date November 24 2023
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Directors – Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn – 2023 – US – Cert. U – 95m ** The ruler of a kingdom where wishes can come true, undone by assuming the role of gatekeeper, morphs into a tyrant – latest Disney animated feature is out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 24th A believer in the […]

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The Green Knight

Director – David Lowery – 2021 – UK – Cert. 15 – 130m ***1/2 A retelling of the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from Arthurian mythology – out in cinemas on Friday, September 24th This immediately sets out its stall with a woman leading a horse out of a courtyard and Gawain […]

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Zu Warriors
From The
Magic Mountain
(Shu Shan
– Xin Shu Shan Jian Ke,
新蜀山劍俠)

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Post date February 8 2021
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From The
Magic Mountain
(Shu Shan
– Xin Shu Shan Jian Ke,
新蜀山劍俠)

Director – Tsui Hark – 1983 – Hong Kong – Cert. 12 – 98m ***** One of the greatest special effects action movies ever made, this groundbreaking epic delivers non-stop, near unbelievable, visually entrancing vistas of Chinese mythology – online in the UK as part of Focus Hong Kong 2021 from Tuesday, February 9th to […]