How many princesses does Disney have ?

Before “Raya and The Last Dragon”, Disney still has these 12 princesses. The animated film “Raya and The Last Dragon” featuring Disney’s first Southeast Asian princess “Raya” as the protagonist will be seen today on the big screen in mainland China. Before Raya appeared, the 12 princesses of Disney were household names. Of course, not […]

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SOUL

In 2018, the journey to dream won the best animated feature film at the Academy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards. Little boy MIG’s persistence in music and grandmother Coco’s longing for his father moved everyone. Now I think it’s still moving. That sentence “death is not the end, forgetting is” taught how many people […]

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Zootropolis

With a plot that unfurls with all the sinuousness of a PG-cert Chinatown, Disney’s latest box-office smash is one of their best. There are creaks and leaks within the metaphor at the centre of this otherwise delightful new animation from Walt Disney Studios. We are set down in a city where all sorts of animals […]

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Spirited Away

A beautifully drawn and wonderfully composed work of art – really, no other description will do – which takes us on a rocket-fuelled flight of fancy. Magical is a word used casually about films like this, films about fantasy and childhood. Yet this one really does deserve it: an enchanted and enchanting feature from the […]

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Penguins of Madagascar

The scene-stealing penguins from the “Madagascar” movies get their own spin-off in the 2014 rightfully named “Penguins of Madagascar,” and yes, I know this is my 800th review, which is hard to believe. One would think a little of these eccentric animals would go a long way. Christy Lemire said in her review, “And indeed, this family-friendly animated […]

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Onward

In the five years since Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur, Pixar has released only one original feature film: Coco, about a boy who magically journeys to the Land of the Dead and spends a night with a departed paternal ancestor, but must return home at dawn. Onward, from Dan Scanlon (Monsters University), has twice the boys and half […]

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Beauty and the Beast

Now I come to a movie that I was really disappointed with, the 2017 remake of one of all time favorite classics, “Beauty and the Beast.” You might say that there’s nothing wrong with Emma Watson’s singing, but her professional judgment is a little off. Acting in Disney’s live-action remake of “Beauty and the Beast” […]

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