Tag: Disney
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Maleficent.
Maleficent has been a long time coming. After numerous re-shoots and re-workings of the script, the re-imagining of one of Disney’s most iconic fairy-tale adaptations always seemed, to an extent, doomed from the start. With Oz the Great and Powerful receiving terrible reviews there seemed little hope for a film like Maleficent that was evidently following in its footsteps. Since…
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Frozen.
In 2010 Disney released Tangled. Despite trying to do something new and refreshing Tangled ended up feeling a little too familiar with the modernised fairytale being thoroughly worn out since the success and originality of Shrek. Tangled also demonstrated Disney’s attempt to step up their game as collaborators and partners and animation rivals Pixar churning out a vast number of high quality…
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Trusting the Monsters.
At the humble age of 9 I eagerly sat in my cinema seat awaiting a screening of Monsters Inc. To this day it remains my favourite Pixar film. Like all Pixar masterpieces, it contains strong messages about individuality, ambition, friendship and the importance of self belief and thought. The comedy and emotion are of an exceptionally high…
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Personal Collections.
Today I got round to organising the mountain of films that dominate my bedroom shelves. Sorting out my DVD collection turned out to be as enjoyable as it was frustrating. The mammoth task, that was filtering and reordering my films, has lead to me contemplating about how it is that we present our passion for…
Hannah McHaffie 