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Moana
(2026)

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Post date July 10 2026
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(2026)
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Director – Thomas Kail – 2026 – US – Cert. PG – 115m ***1/2 Disney’s live action remake of its Polynesian heroine mythological romp – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 10th It’s a curious experience watching Disney’s live action remake of Moana (John Musker, Ron Clements, 2016), one of the Studio’s better animated movies of recent years. […]

Animation Features Movies

Minions & Monsters

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Post date June 23 2026
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Director – Pierre Coffin, Patrick Delage – 2026 – US, France – Cert. PG – 90m **** How two Minions named Henry and James made their indelible mark in 1920s Hollywood – premieres in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, 21st June to Saturday 27th June, then out in UK cinemas […]

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Animation Features Live Action Movies

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

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
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, […]

Tags 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, 3D animation, adventure, Agnieska Matysiak, Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld, animation, Annecy, Annecy 2024, Arcadiusz Jakubik, artist, artwork, audition, beatbox, Bill Timoney, bookworm, Borys Szyc, CG, CG animation, children's film, comedy, comic book, crater, creativity, cute, cute character, deadline, desert wasteland, desk, diplodocus, donkey, drawing, drawing board, erase, eraser, existence, gags, Grzegorz Pawlak, Julian Wanderer, magic, Małgorzata Kożuchowskahumour, Marc Thompson, Mariusz Szczygiel, marketable, Mike Pollock, Mikołaj Wachowski, Monica Pikuła, mouse, multiverse, onions, parents and children, philosopher, Piotr Polak, plagiarise, PÖFF, PÖFF 2024, PÖFF 28, Poland, prehistory, primeval, publisher, Rachel Butera, science, spaceship, spells, sphinx, sun, swamp, Tadeusz Baranowsk, Tadeusz Baranowski, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024, travel, Wayne Greyson, whiteness, wizard, Wojtek Wawszczyk, X; Strasburger Zona

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The Naked Gun
(2025)

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Post date August 1 2025
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(2025)
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Director – Akiva Schaffer – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 85m ***** Frank Drebin, the bumbling, self-confident, incompetent, cop and son of Frank Drebin, the bumbling, self-confident, incompetent cop sets out to solve a case involving a self-driving car and a P.L.O.T. Device – reboot of the classic comedy franchise is out in […]

Tags Akiva Schaffer, always gets his man, back projection, bumbling, businessman, CCH Pounder, chief, cluelessness, comedy, cop, crime, crime thriller B-movie, cup of coffee, Dan Gregor, Danny Huston, death, determination, Doug Mand, Eden, femme fatale, franchise, Frank Drebin, gags, gift, hubris, incompetent, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker, killed, L.A., Leslie Nielsen, Liam Neeson, murder investigation, murderous, P.L.O.T. Device, Pamela Anderson, pet dog, police case, police procedural, Police Squad!, reboot, romantic weekend away, Saturday Night Live, self-confident, self-driving car, snow-coveraged lodge, snowman, spoof, super-rich, The Naked Gun, third-rate, threesome, thriller, TV series, villain, walking disaster area, ZAZ

Animation Art Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Escher:
Journey
Into Infinity
(Escher:
Het Oneindige
Zoeken)

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Post date August 12 2021
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Journey
Into Infinity
(Escher:
Het Oneindige
Zoeken)

Director – Robin Lutz – 2018 – The Netherlands – Cert. PG – 81m ***** The life and work of graphic artist M.C. Escher is explored through his own images and words (read by Stephen Fry) – on UK/Ireland digital download platforms from Monday, October 18th – iTunes, Amazon, Sky Store, Curzon Home Cinema, Google […]

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Ishiro Honda
Double Feature
The H Man
(Bijo
To Ekitai-ningen,
美女と液体人間)
and
Battle
In Outer Space
(Uchu Daisenso,
宇宙大戦争)

The H Man ***** Director – Ishiro Honda – 1958 – Japan – Cert. X – 86m Battle in Outer Space ***** Director – Ishiro Honda – 1959 – Japan – Cert. U – 90m Alongside the standalone release of Mothra (1961) comes a double bill of two more Toho science fiction movies directed by […]

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Battle
In Outer Space
(Uchu Daisenso,
宇宙大戦争,
lit. The Great Space War)

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Post date March 31 2021
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In Outer Space
(Uchu Daisenso,
宇宙大戦争,
lit. The Great Space War)

***** Director – Ishiro Honda – 1959 – Japan – Cert. U – 90m Battle In Outer Space is one of those films that paints on a bigger canvas and sacrifices character development in favour of big-screen visual spectacle, brought to life with state-of-the-art special effects. According to Kalat, the film owes much to the […]

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