Film Review: Raya and the Last Dragon

The latest Disney animated movie is a gorgeous, gripping and entertaining fantasy adventure which continues the studio's current hot streak. While it lacks some of the traditional Disney aspects (songs and a major villain) it continues their ability to tell fantastic, moving stories with likeable, memorable characters. The film is set in Kumandra, a once …

365 Film Challenge Part 23: Disney Special

Film #25: Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure I've actually seen a couple of the Tinker Bell movies before, because they used to have them on the Sky Movies Disney channel and they're quite short, sweet little flicks and WoM is Disney obsessed, which has reignited and fuelled my own love for all things Disney. …

Disney Classics #46: Chicken Little

Note: Film 28 of the 365 film challenge. This is the last Disney film I needed to watch to have seen all of the Disney classic movies to date, and one I had low expectations of because it's one of those forgotten Disney movies that doesn't get mentioned a lot. Loosely, and I mean loosely, …

Disney Classics #47: Meet the Robinsons

This film feels like a forgotten Disney movie, and suffers from falling during a period where Disney were struggling to find their groove consistently and Pixar were in the ascendancy. It's a shame because while it's not up there with the best it's still a sweet and funny movie, filled with some nice retro sci-fi …

Disney Classics #39: Dinosaur

This is one of the Disney movies I missed at the cinema when it came out and I've never caught up with it because it's one of those Disney flicks that has kinda been forgotten about. It's easy to see why. The plot of this movie is a little dull and the characters aren't particularly …

Disney Classics #30: Beauty and the Beast

This was the first animated movie to get nominated for the Best Picture at the Oscars, and while I'm a big fan of that year's winner (The Silence of the Lambs), this would have been a deserved winner, because it is, for me, easily one of the best movies Disney have ever made. It's just …

Disney Classics #42: Lilo and Stitch

I love this movie, and Stitch is easily one of my favourite Disney characters (right up there, with Genie, Baloo, Rapunzel and Flynn Rider), he's incredibly cute for starters, but he's also this manic ball of destructive energy. The plot of this movie is that Stitch is the creation of self-styled evil genius Jumba (David …

Disney Classics #33: Pocahontas

It's weird how things go, isn't it. In the early 1990s Disney were still buzzing from the success of Beauty and the Beast, and understandably proud of their Best Picture nomination at the Oscars, and they hoped this film would be the one that would do the job for them. In fact, during production it …

Disney Classics #37: Tarzan

I think this is the first Disney movie since The Little Mermaid that I didn't see in the cinema when it came out, because I was fourteen. I think at that age, I was kinda insecure about doing things that I considered "childish" and so I stopped going to see Disney movies, which is a …

Disney Classics #51: Winnie the Pooh

I've always had a soft spot for Winnie the Pooh and the other residents of the Hundred Acre Wood, largely because The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was a favourite video in my house growing up. For me, that will always be the best Pooh movie, but this one, from 2011, still captures the …