Ameer Matani

Loving Vincent, a debut feature film by husband and wife duo Dorota Kobiela and Huch Welchman, is currently the first film to be entirely animated through the use of oil painting. This film was praised by many and has a dedicated fanbase, but is this film as good as its fans make it out to be?

I love the Disney post-renaissance era; it's an era where Disney experimented with new ideas and released movies that felt very different from their previous catalogue of films. In my experience, these movies seem to be movies that you either love or hate; Atlantis The Lost Empire appears to keep up with that trend, many people adore it, I, on the other hand, don't.

Disney/Pixar's Brave is a film that many people don't seem to like, with many disliking it because of a significant event that happens to Merida's mum and the direction that the film takes following that event. I on the other hand, really like this film; It's not perfect, but it has a lot of good things going for it.

I didn't realise how big of a deal this film was before doing this review. It turns out that loads of people love this movie, there was even a showing for it in a cinema in Leeds on Halloween this year. Despite it being made close to 25 years ago in 1993, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" is still regularly watched a talked about up until this day!

As for what I knew about this film... well I did know that "This is Halloween" was a thing. I had never seen the movie before, and to be honest, I didn't think I'd like it at first, but after seeing everyone recommending it, I was a bit more optimistic.