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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

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  • Title: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
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1968’s The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is a fantasy epic starring Kerwin Mathews in the title role of the ship captain, and heir of Bagdad, who is tricked by the sorcerer Sokurah (Torin Thatcher) to return to a cursed island with a Cyclops after the wizard shrinks Sinbad‘s love Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant) and suggests the only cure can be found there. What Sokurah is really after, however, is a magic lamp and the power of its genie (Richard Eyer).

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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

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  • Title: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
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The latest from the Wallace & Gromit franchise involves Wallace‘s (Ben Whitehead) inventions of garden gnome robots, which Gromit is suspicious of immediately, being turned against him by Feathers McGraw who eventually uses the group to break out of the Zoo where he’s been kept a prisoner since the events of The Wrong Trousers. After the gnomes are turned evil (because for some reason Wallace created them to able to be evil?) the group also ruin the inventor’s name turning both the locals and police against him.

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Coraline

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  • Title: Coraline
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Coraline

Returning to theaters for the film’s 15th Anniversary, I had much the same reaction to Coraline that I had the first time I saw it in a theater. The dark tale of a young girl (Dakota Fanning) discovering a secret world of “others” who resemble her family and friends but with buttons for eyes is a vivid and creative use of stop-motion. However, the first-half of the film of Coraline exploring the magical world, and comparing her drab reality to it, has always left me a bit cold. For me, the film only picks up when the more sinister elements of the “Other Mother” (Teri Hatcher) are exposed and Coraline goes into survival mode.

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The Inventor

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  • Title: The Inventor
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The Inventor

Even if it does get a bit schmaltzy in its final act ending in a questionable musical number, 2023’s The Inventor still has much to offer in the stop-motion animation that explores the life of Leonardo da Vinci (Stephen Fry) first in Rome and later in France where his experiments and inventions struggle against the expectations and demands of his patrons. Leonardo finds a kindred spirit in Princess Marguerite (Daisy Ridley) who shares his dreams in creating an ideal city, although her brother Francis I (Gauthier Battoue) is more concerned with his inventor creating ways for the king to show off to other rulers.

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