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Lucy Vanes I think when people hear ‘the beauty of film’ they tend to picture Interstellar, La La Land or The Grand Budapest Hotel, all of which, of course, are beautifully made, timeless and re-watchable films for a reason. It’s probably unusual, therefore, for an animated film about a...

Melissa Mousley Imagine: you just got home after a long, stressful day. Maybe the heating wasn’t working in that one lecture theatre. Or you started making your morning coffee, only to realise that you ran out of milk the day before. Dragging your feet, you make it to the...

Thomas Martin ‘Having a new home within the Disney organisation, Star Wars will certainly live on and flourish for many generations to come,’ said George Lucas after his Lucasfilm was acquired by Disney for $4.05 billion ($1.855bn in stocks) on October the 30th, 2012. This sale was the culmination...

Disney’s Academy-Award winning adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale of the same name, The Little Mermaid (1989), was the catalyst for the Disney Renaissance; a decade that catapulted worldwide critical and commercial success for the animation studio and boasted well-acclaimed classics such as Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin...

The best Marvel movie since… well, certainly, years. The final and third film is always tricky when having to balance both wrapping up the story arcs, as well as providing a film in and of itself. Recent Marvel movies have received very mixed, skewing on negative, reviews, from Ant-Man...

The next step that franchises may choose to follow is to turn their stories into a theme park. Ed Farley breaks down how franchises are turned into theme parks and how we as visitors enjoy them....

After 18 years of production and years of petitions calling for a change to the heteronormative family narrative of the children's show Peppa Pig, its creators have finally introduced a same-sex couple. Many people have celebrated this as a landmark moment in the pursuit of LGBTQ+ education for children,...