Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999)

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999)
Rating: ★★★
Nov 20, 2019Coming of Age Story/Eccentric Psychic Father
Eccentric Coming of Age story set during the 1970s punk era where, among the usual other funny travails, the protagonist's father starts demonstrating psychic abilities

Planet 51 (2009)

Planet 51 (2009)
Rating: ★★½
Nov 30, 2009Animation/Human Astronaut Seen as an Invader on an Alien Planet
A one-gag animated film that essentially reverses the plot of E.T, and has a human astronaut stranded on a planet of aliens and adopted by one boy. More likeable than it has a right to be.

Trolls (2016)

Trolls (2016)
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Feb 6, 2017Animation/Small Cute Creatures
A perfect example of all the things I hate about modern animation. Based around the popular Troll dolls, this is vapidly designed, content-free product based solely around simplistic storylines, manic slapstick sequences, song and dance numbers, and inane contemporary pop culture in-jokes

The Emoji Movie (2017)

The Emoji Movie (2017)
Rating: ★★
Dec 4, 2017Animation/The Lives of Talking Emojis
An animated film that bizarrely speculates that the emojis in your text messages are actually living entities that have lives inside the phone. A not-too-well-thought out concept that leaves you with strange questions about its world

Peter Rabbit (2018)

Peter Rabbit (2018)
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Apr 29, 2018Talking Animals
Beatrix Potter wrote genteel stories of talking animals in the English countryside. This is a film so astonishingly awful in its treatment of the source material - it feels like someone drunkenly urinating on Beatrix Potter's gravestone for lulz. The No 1 contender for Worst Film of 2018