Christmas films can be a dime-a-dozen and sometimes only exist to create some harmless festive cheer and spout an obvious message. While that could be seen as pandering and very limiting (which it is in some respects), a good handling… Continue reading "A Boy Called Christmas"
Would a film version of Wicked still turn heads in 2024? That was the question that clouded people’s minds when they heard that one of their favorite musicals which told an alternate perspective of one of the most timeless stories… Continue reading "Wicked"
The Christmas Truce was a series of unofficial ceasefires that took place along the Western front during World War I around Christmas of 1914. Being a war that with the passage of time, has been viewed as a horribly pointless… Continue reading "Joyeux Noël"
The 1947 Christmas comedy, Miracle on 34th Street, stands as one of the most beloved Christmas classics of all time. With a premise centred around a man who genuinely seems to believe he is Santa Clause warming the hearts of… Continue reading "Miracle on 34th Street"
Very few movies can claim they held the world in a vice grip the same way that Disney’s 2013 animated feature, Frozen, did. There have been plenty of films that dominated pop culture and have helped shape how entertainment has… Continue reading "Frozen"
The work of Dr Seuss may be helmed as classic children’s literature that has lasted the test of time for their creative quaintness and quiet poignancy, but any attempts at adapting said stories into a film format have usually blossomed… Continue reading "Horton Hears a Who!"
When you earned a reputation as being a creative that can take material that should be old and cliched and make it feel fresh and new, you’re going to be a talent worth keeping an eye on, and Chris Sanders… Continue reading "The Wild Robot"
The 2023 superhero film, The Flash, will go down in comic book history as one of the most monumental misses for a studio when it comes to adapting a popular superhero. There have certainly been worse films released under the… Continue reading "The Flash"
The 1989 American sports drama, Field of Dreams, on the surface just looks like any typical 80s baseball film, yet the admiration for this film is surprisingly potent. Based on the 1982 novel, Shoeless Joe, written by W. P. Kinsella,… Continue reading "Field of Dreams"
The 1956 sci-fi horror film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, is one of the classic staples of Hollywood horror, sitting within the ranks of other timeless stories like Frankenstein, Dracula and the other Universal movie monsters. But while those stories… Continue reading "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
