Released: 13th September (Australia)
Seen: 8th September (Advance Screening… in Australia, I know the movie’s been out everywhere else for months)
Christopher Robin
Released: 13th September
Seen: 1st September (Advance Screening Weekend)
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
Released: 11th January 2018 (Australia)
Seen: 17th January 2018
Directed by: Cal Brunker
Written by: Bob Barlen, Cal Brunker & Scott Bindley
Produced by: ToonBox Entertainment & Redrover Co. Ltd.
Starring: Will Arnett, Maya Rudolph, Bobby Cannavale & Bobby Moynihan
Ferdinand
Released 14th December (Australia)
Seen 10th December (Advance Screening)
Directed by Carlos Saldanha
Written by Robert L. Baird, Tim Federle, Brad Copeland
Produced by Blue Sky Studios, Twentieth Century Fox Animation
Starring John Cena, Bobby Cannavale, Kate McKinnon, Peyton Manning & David Tennant
The Star
Released 30th November (Australia)
Seen 5th December
Directed by Timothy Reckart
Written by Carlos Kotkin
Produced by Affirm Films, Columbia Pictures, Franklin Entertainment, Jim Henson Company, Sony Pictures Animation, Walden Media
Starring Steven Yeun, Keegan-Michael Key, Gina Rodriguez, Zachary Levi, Kristen Chenoweth & Oprah Winfrey
Coco
Released 26th December (Australia)
Seen 3rd December (Advance Screening)
Directed by Lee Unkrich & Adrian Molina
Written by Adrian Molina & Matthew Aldrich
Produced by Disney Pixar
Starring Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt & Renee Victor
Paddington 2
Released 21 December
Seen 3rd December (Charity Preview screening)
Directed by Paul King
Written by Paul King & Simon Farnaby
Produced by StudioCanal, Anton Capital Entertainment S.C.A., Amazon Prime Instant Video, Canal+, Ciné+, Heyday Films, Marmalade Films Ltd.
Starring Ben Whishaw, Madeline Harris, Samuel Joslin, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville & Hugh Grant
The Lego Batman Movie
Released 30th March (Australia)
Seen 11th November
Directed by Chris McKay
Written by Seth Grahame-Smith, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Jared Stern & John Whittington
Produced by DC Entertainment, Lego System A/S, Lin Pictures, Lord Miller, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Vertigo Entertainment, Warner Animation Group, Warner Bros. Animation & Warner Bros
Starring Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson & Ralph Fiennes
Earlier this year I saw Lego Ninjago, a movie that was clearly spewed out to capitalize on the cinematic success that was The Lego Movie. At the start of that review, I mentioned that “Lego Batman… showed you could play around in multiple established universes and still tell your own story”. I knew this because my younger brother told me the basic storyline of the Lego Batman movie and, at that point, I hadn’t seen Lego Batman. I’ve now rectified that and somehow, it makes me think Lego Ninjago was actually worse.
