Soul

A musician who finds himself dead on the eve of the biggest opportunity of his life must find his way back to his life in Pete Docter and Kemp Powers Soul. Pixar continue to be the gold standard in both animation and storytelling. Most of their films tell compelling, ambitious and thematically rich stories that…

Coco

A young aspiring musician unwittingly enters the Land of the Dead and gains a wider perspective on the importance of family in Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina’s Coco. Pixar are often among the best at bringing raw and honest emotion to an animated feature. Inside Out is one such example of this but much of…

The Good Dinosaur

Peter Sohn’s The Good Dinosaur marks Pixar’s second film release of 2015 and delivers a very different experience from the earlier effort, Inside Out. The premise here is that the dinosaurs were never wiped out by a meteor and continued to evolve after that. Our introduction to the story shows an Apatosaurus making use of…

EIFF 2015 – Inside Out

Inside Out is the latest effort from animation giants Pixar who decide to take a break from sequels and deliver a completely original outing. The idea on display here is that emotions are characters who live inside our heads and influence our behaviour. Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) is the character chosen to explore this idea and…