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Despicable Me
By Catherine O'Dolan on 15/10/2010 17:12:03
Why do the bad guys always have all the fun? Meet Gru and the gang from Despicable Me.
unscrupulous too! It's time for Gru to pull his biggest heist of all time: he is going to steal the moon!Now the contest of evil versus, well, greater evil begins, and as Gru begins to show his gentler side as he adopts three little orphan girls, Margo, Edith
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Beauty & The Beast Diamond Edition
By Catherine O'Dolan on 28/09/2010 16:59:06
The classic fairy tale celebrates two decades with a brand new Diamond Edition
breed of Disney Princesses who believed in girl power. She even reads books! Can you imagine? Certainly something that her would-be love interest, Gaston, does not believe to be an appropriate pursuit for a young woman, when she could be pandering to his
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Easter movie reviews: RIO
By Catherine O'Dolan on 14/04/2011 13:32:38
Indulge in the vibrant spirit of the South American carnival with this fun-packed animation
and snowy Minnesota. As luck would have it, his cage falls out of the van, and he is taken in by a kindly bespectacled little girl, Linda. Fast forward 15 years to a grown-up Linda and a domesticated Blu, who can perform all manner of clever tricks, like
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Easter Movie Reviews: Rango
By Catherine O'Dolan on 14/04/2011 14:56:50
Johnny Depp plays homage to Clint Eastwood and the Wild West in a quirky animation Rango
by the creaking of the saloon sign, balls of tumbleweed sweeping over bleak terrain) though it may be more of an acquired taste for some young audiences. At our viewing, a group of seven-year-old girls walked out in disgust (“It's rubbish”), while a gleeful six
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Hotel Transylvania: A Monster Hit for Hallowe'en
By Catherine O'Dolan on 18/10/2012 14:56:00
With a ghastly cast of ghouls, monsters, vampires and freaks, Hotel Transylvania is a real hoot for Hallowe'en
and Paranorman. More mild mayhem than morbid macabre, this is essentially a coming of age movie for little Bat girl, Mavis, daughter of Dracula (voiced charmingly by Selena Gomez) who turns 118 and yearns to see the world – or at least venture into the local
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Films Reviews 2012: Paranorman
By Catherine O'Dolan on 23/10/2012 14:40:00
Get set for a spooky animation featuring a young lad who's far from normal
suspect the town dwellers sort of deserve their fate!): can the antihero triumph? From the makers of Coraline, this stop-motion animation has a similarly spooky, off-beat appeal to the movie about the girl with the button eyes (and some hair-raisingly hide
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Films for Summer 2012: The Lorax
By Catherine O'Dolan on 30/07/2012 14:23:40
From the zany tale by the wonderful Dr Seuss comes a fantastic fable The Lorax – the must-see family film for summer 2012
have to buy the air – O’Hare Air – they breathe in bottles. One young girl, Audrey (voiced by Taylor Swift) dreams about having a real tree “that smells like butterfly milk”, and young Ted, the boy next door with a megacrush (Zac Ephron), sets off
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Toy Story 3: Is this the best family movie of all time?
By Catherine O'Dolan on 16/07/2010 14:07:51
Woody, Buzz Lightyear et al return in Disney Pixar's 3D extravaganza. But will it have you sobbing into your popcorn?
and honesty, not to mention the brilliantly observed humour, of the central characters – loyal-to-the-last Woody and puffed-up-but-able-to-laugh-at-himself Buzz. Now it's time for Ken "I'm not a girl's toy” to shine, renaming Barbie's Dreamhouse (instantly
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