Derek Winnert

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Ne Zha [Nezha zhi motong jiangshi] (2019) – Movie Review

Writer-director Yu Yang [Jiaozi]’s striking 2019 Chinese animated fantasy adventure Ne Zha [Nezha zhi motong jiangshi] is bright, lively, entertaining, sometimes impressive and sometimes just amiably silly. Some of the animation design looks very good […]

Sep, 12

Mutafukaz *** (2017) – Movie Review 

This head-banging 2017 France and Japan co-production is an incredibly insane, and insanely imaginative, fast-moving animated feature from writer-director Guillaume Renard and co-director Shoujirou Nishimi. It is one hell of a wild ride. It is set in Dark Meat City, […]

Sep, 21

Hotel Transylvania 2 *** (2015, voices of Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, David Spade, Steve Buscemi, Mel Brooks) – Movie Review

Hotel Transylvania 2 is mild and minor but it is quite pleasant, amusing and fun. Adam Sandler returns as the voice of Dracula, whose daughter Mavis (voice of Selena Gomez) has married human Johnny (Andy Samberg) […]

Sep, 27

Song of the Sea *** (2014, voices of Lucy O’Connell, David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan, Lisa Hannigan) – Movie Review

Director Tomm Moore delivers a sweet, warm and appealing animated treat, fascinatingly mixing Irish folk yarns like The Secret of Roan Inish (John Sayles 1994) with beautiful visuals in the design style of Japanese works like […]

Jul, 09

Penguins of Madagascar *** (2014, voices of John Malkovich and Benedict Cumberbatch) – Movie Review

In this daft, frantic and amusing penguins spinoff from the DreamWorks Madagascar animation franchise, Skipper, Kowalski, Private and Rico get involved in a global espionage plot. The form a SWAT team of penguins who join forces […]

Dec, 05

The Snowman ***** (1982, voice of David Bowie, Raymond Briggs) – Classic Movie Review 550

The famous must-see 1982 animated adventure The Snowman is about a young English boy who makes a snowman one Christmas Eve. ‘Walking in the Air’ is sung by Peter Auty. Apart from narration of the […]

Dec, 20

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 *** (2013, voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Will Forte, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Benjamin Bratt, Neil Patrick Harris, Kristen Schaal, Terry Crews) – Movie Review

Flint Lockwood (voice of Bill Hader), his dad Tim (James Caan), spunky meteorologist Sam Sparks (Anna Faris) and Steve the Monkey (Neil Patrick Harris) are back in directors Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn’s modest but good-natured 2013 […]

Oct, 25

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