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In 2014, Japanese animation giant Studio Ghibli announced that it was taking an hiatus after director Hayao Miyazaki retired.  Their latest film, directed by The Secret World of Arriety director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, is a bittersweet…

Tim Burton's much hyped re-imagining of one of his earliest films, the 1984 short film of the same name, delivers on its promise of scares, thrills and laughs in spades. All wrapped up in a beautiful homage to the horror/sci-fi films that…

The Nightmare Before Christmas is, without a doubt, one of my absolute favourite family movies of the last 20 years. Perfect for both Halloween and Christmas, it's no surprise that I love it so much. It has two main things going against it,…

There was a time when leaving your child home alone while you went away for a Christmas holiday would have been enough to get the child taken out of your custody, placed in care and given years of therapy. But then Chris Columbus directed…