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Video Review: Tangled – Hair-larious, meta-folicle master-hairpiece
4th February 2011 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Joe West looks for split ends in 3D hairy-tale Tangled. Hair hair hair. Comb....
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Review: Tron Legacy – Ctrl Alt Obsolete
4th January 2011 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
Like most malevolent forces, Disney had quite a good 2010. After scorching the fur of fun from the corpse of Alice in Wonderland with retrospectively applied 3D it fuelled kidiocy like The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in the summer, leaving Pixar to clean up the mess with Toy Story 3. Although by association this triumph became the dainty silk handkerchief which Mickey Mouse used...
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Review: Toy Story 3 – Playtime is over
23rd July 2010 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this
Like all of Pixar’s movies, Toy Story 3 isn’t really for kids. I’m verging on massive condescension with that statement, because of course the cartoony liveliness of the onscreen action is stimulating to the mealy-mouthed, teat-feeding youth of this world. However, I don’t think that any film in this venerable franchise, or any of the studio’s other work, comes closer to being an adult-oriented film.
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Review: Alice in Wonderland – Dear Tim
8th March 2010 | 7 comments | 2 people like this
Dear Tim Burton,
I went to see your new film at the weekend. Alice in Wonderland. In 3D. With a Disney stamp on it and that lady who worked on Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King behind the writing desk.
Now, I’m not a 3D-sceptic Tim, let’s get that straightened out. I like the depth it gives to the images, and I like the clarity of picture you get with... -
Review: Disney’s A Christmas Carol – harmless fun
4th November 2009 | 0 comments | 3 people like this
Did anyone watch 2007’s Beowulf? It was the first 3D film that I saw, though the most remarkable feature it displayed was the complete mapping and virtual replication of the leading actors’ faces. Seeing Ray Winstone’s chubby head plastered onto the muscle-bound body of a mythical warrior was odd to say the least. Beowulf’s director Robert Zemeckis has carried over this style to his latest picture, A Christmas Carol. This...
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Review: UP is heart warming and heartbreaking
9th October 2009 | 0 comments | 2 people like this
When Up opened the Cannes film festival earlier this year, a few jumpy commentators were quick to declare that 3D film making had been accepted by the mainstream. Perhaps they were right. In fact, they almost certainly were, considering the barrage of new 3D films that are hitting the cinema, aimed at kids and adults alike. However, to me it feels a little more like 3D technology is being shoved...
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Joe is a writer based in the UK. He is passionate about films, as well as video games and literature, and regularly blogs about new releases as well as forgotten classics and undiscovered gems from around the globe. Sometime's you'll find his posts peppered with fruity, pretentious language, but he means well.
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