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Chicken Run

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 6 2023
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Producer-Directors: Nick Park, Peter Lord – Producer – David Sproxton – 2000 – UK – Cert. PG – 84m ***** Which came first – the chicken or the egg? Plasticene stop-frame animation house Aardman Animations’ debut feature film reconceives The Great Escape with chickens – back out in UK cinemas from Friday, 24th July Aardman […]

Animation Art Exhibitions Movies

LAIKA
FRAME x FRAME

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
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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Sting

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 31 2024
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Director – Kiah Roache-Turner – 2024 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 91m ***1/2 A girl traps a venomous spider and cares for it as a pet, but as she feeds it, it grows… and grows… and gets out… – onto UK Home Premiere on Monday, July 15th Helga (Noni Hazlehurst) is hearing strange noises […]

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Animation Features Movies

The Inventor

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Post date March 5 2024
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Directors – Jim Capobianco, Pierre-Luc Granjon – 2023 – US, France, Ireland – Cert. PG – 100m **** Towards the end of his life, inventor Leonardo da Vinci goes to live in France under the patronage of the King – stop frame / drawn animation composite is out in the UK’s Vue cinemas on Friday, […]

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Animation Features Movies

Chicken Run:
Dawn of the Nugget

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 8 2023
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Dawn of the Nugget
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Director – Sam Fell – Co-Director – Jeff Newitt – 2023 – UK – Cert. PG – 101m **** Which came first – the chicken or the egg? Having escaped the farm for an island paradise, the chickens must break into and wreck a food processing factory masquerading as a holiday camp to lure unwitting […]

Animation Features Movies

Guillermo del Toro’s
Pinocchio

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Post date December 9 2022
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Pinocchio
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Directors – Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson – 2022 – US – Cert. PG – 114m ***** Created as a puppet by a bereaved, religious woodcarver father, a little wooden boy must make his way in a world of ruthless show business, Fascism and war – stop-frame puppet movie is out on Netflix on Friday, […]

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Mad God

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Post date June 16 2022
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Director – Phil Tippett – 1987-2021 – US – 83m ***** A man in a gas mask descends into a dark, dangerous world on a mysterious mission, encountering strange creatures, humanoids and societal constructs along the way – stop-frame epic 34 years in the making – as of Tuesday, June 28th, has become the most […]

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Features Live Action Movies Music

Annette

Director – Leos Carax – 2021 – France, US – Cert. 15 – 141m ****1/2 Musical conceived and composed by Sparks plays out as a very dark opera ending in tragedy – on MUBI from Friday, November 26th Although billed as a musical, this may actually be closer to opera given that even though it […]

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Pinocchio

Director – Matteo Garrone – 2019 – Italy – Cert. PG – 125m ***** In cinemas from Friday, August 14th, on BFI Player rental from Monday, December 14th Impoverished woodcarver Geppetto (Roberto Benigni) decides to make the greatest puppet the world has ever seen, tour the world with it and make his fortune. A wood […]

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