Rankin/Bass Productions were never going to topple the Disney company when it came to creating animated classics. Still, in 1982, with a delightful adaptation of Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn, they gave it their best shot. And while this film didn’t set the box office on fire at the time, it has generated a…
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We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story (1993)
1993 was certainly an interesting year for Steven Spielberg for not only did he release his more than successful adaptation of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, a movie that brought dinosaurs brilliantly to the modern-day, but he also released the animated dinosaur movie We’re Back a Dinosaur’s Story, which was also about bringing dinosaurs to the…
The Land Before Time (1988) – Review
Up until Steven Spielberg and Don Bluth teamed up here the typical dinosaurs you’d find rampaging across cinema screens were treated as either life-threatening monsters or simply large dumb prehistoric animals that were best avoided less one gets stepped on, but in 1988 Amblin Entertainment gave the world its first dinosaur story that was from…
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) – Review
With titles being produced by DreamWorks Animation becoming very much hit and miss when it came to box office results Jeffrey Katzenberg approached Gladiator screenwriter John Logan to pen a script for an animated Sinbad film in the hopes of creating their own Aladdin money-making machine to compete with Disney, sadly, this was not to…
Checkered Ninja (2018) – Review
What if Chucky from Child’s Play was a Ninja? That sounds like a pretty badass premise, right? And if the idea of a toy performing murderous martial arts hijinks appeals to you then there is a good chance you will love Thorbjørn Christoffersen and Anders Matthesen’s film the Checkered Ninja, as that is pretty much the…