Directors – Laurent Charbonnier, Michel Seydoux – 2022 – France – Cert. U – 80m **** The life of an oak tree, and the community of animal life which surrounds it, through the four seasons of a year – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 12th and then on Digital Download from Monday, August […]
Director – Liu Xiaoshi – 2023 – China – Cert. 12a – 128m ***1/2 Genuinely thrilling action movie about Chinese test pilots owes much to US movies Top Gun and The Right Stuff, even as it attempts to justify current expansionist Chinese views – out on Blu-ray and Digital from Monday, February 5th From above […]
Director – Jeremy Purcell – 2022 – US, UK, Ireland, China – Cert. U – 92m ***1/2 The puffin and animal community of Puffin Rock is thrown into crisis by the arrival of a few refugees, the disappearance of a puffin egg and a terrible storm – spinoff feature from preschool children’s animated TV series […]
Director – Michaël Dudok De Wit – 2016 – France / Belgium / Japan – Cert. PG – 82m ***** A man shipwrecked on an island encounters a red turtle. From the get-go, this is not your usual 2D animated film. The Red Turtle is slow-paced, has no dialogue and is certainly not aimed at […]
Director – Rémi Chayé – 2020 – France – 85m **** A young girl dresses as a man to survive in the Wild West in this extraordinary 2D, colour animated film – from the Annecy 2021 Animation Festival Martha Jane Cannary is travelling across the US in a wagon, part of a larger convoy, with […]