Tag Archives: Disney

Film review | Spring Breakers – A riot of sex and drugs and gangsta rap for Disney starlets Gomez & Hudgens

Posted on 6 April 2013 by Jason Best

A wild ride of a movie, Spring Breakers finds gleeful cinematic provocateur Harmony Korine pitching a bunch of former teen starlets into a headlong spree of sex and drugs and gangsta rap. With that all-American college ritual spring break looming, … Continue reading →

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Film review | Wreck-It Ralph – A building-smashing bruiser who’s fed up with playing the bad guy

Posted on 8 February 2013 by Jason Best

Wreck-It Ralph is the building-smashing bad guy in a 1980s arcade game called Fix-It Felix Jr, but he’s really a big softy at heart. And in Disney’s jaunty Oscar-nominated animated fantasy, he just aches for a chance to be the … Continue reading →

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Film Review | Disney’s Beauty and the Beast in 3D – And a chance to dance with Strictly stars Natalie & Ian

Posted on 3 May 2012 by heidi

Hallelujah! Just when you’re faced with the prospect of a miserably wet Bank Holiday weekend with your adorable munchkins driving you batty begging to be entertained indoors, those nice peeps at Disney come to the rescue by bringing their modern … Continue reading →

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Turn your first Disney memory into money for charity!

Posted on 30 July 2011 by Adele Craciun

Our friends over at Disney Junior are asking people to share their first Disney memory on Disney Junior’s Facebook page . When they’ve collected a million memories, they will donate £1 million to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, so … Continue reading →

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Tangled – Disney’s animators let down their hair to give the fairytale musical a makeover

Posted on 28 January 2011 by Jason Best

Disney notches up its 50th animated movie with Tangled and does so in style, taking the tried and true form of the fairytale musical and giving it just enough of a modern makeover to fit the 21st century. The story … Continue reading →

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News Muse – Disney abandons ship whilst Depp walks the plank

Posted on 29 July 2010 by Movie Talk

Stand-in News Muser Caitlin Maggs ponders over the latest movie gossip, giving you her unique take on all the showbiz shenanigans… Media giant Disney recently decided to drop the third and latest instalment of the page-to-screen adaptation of C.S Lewis’ … Continue reading →

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The Princess and the Frog – Disney heroine breaks through the colour barrier

Posted on 21 June 2010 by Jason Best

Disney broke the mould this year by casting its first African-American heroine in The Princess and the Frog – even if she does spend most of the movie as a frog. A green protagonist is not, I think, what most … Continue reading →

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Alice in Wonderland | Tim Burton’s version of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale – minus 3D

Posted on 4 June 2010 by Jason Best

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland comes out on Blu-ray and DVD today – exactly 13 weeks after its cinema release. You’ll probably recall the big dust-up between Disney and some of Europe’s cinema chains over this early release. Major Hollywood … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll’s beloved heroine goes for a Burton

Posted on 5 March 2010 by Jason Best

You’d think Tim and Alice would be the perfect match. Tim Burton, master of the weird and off-kilter, and Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll’s dream-like and surreal Victorian masterpiece: an ideal combination, surely? Yet Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, though dazzling … Continue reading →

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News Muse – Disney battles it out with European cinema chains

Posted on 19 February 2010 by Adele Craciun

Did you catch Gina’s post about movies to look forward to in 2010? Alice in Wonderland was on her list. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player … Continue reading →

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