Ishaan Uwach

Directors: Byron Howard, Chris Williams. Producer: Clark Spencer Starring: John Travolta (Bolt), Miley Cyrus, Chloe Grace Moretz (Penny), Susie Essman (Mittens), Mark Walton (Rhino),    Malcolm McDowell (Calico). The 48 th Disney film, Bolt (2008) is a great coast-to-coast adventure. The film opens with a dog playing with his favourite toy, Mr. Carrot. The dog gets adopted by a girl named Penny and she names the dog Bolt. Five years later, Bolt and Penny play the protagonists in a hit TV show also named Bolt. Bolt (the dog) has to think that everything is real so that he can act accordingly, and he does that very realistically. But one day, he accidentally gets shipped to NYC. He doesn’t actually have powers, so he thinks that Styrofoam reduces his powers. He meets a cat named Mittens and a hamster named Rhino (who claims he is Bolt’s biggest fan) and embarks (literally barks) on a coast-to-coast tour to get back home and ‘save’ Penny, his owner who he refers to as hi...

Director: Tim Burton Producers: Richard D. Zanuck, Lorne Oleans, Brad Grey. Starring: Freddie Highmore (Charlie), Johnny Depp (Willy Wonka), Phillip Wiegratz (Augustus Gloop), AnnaSophia Robb (Violet Beauregarde), Julia Winter (Veruca Salt), Jordan Fry (Mike Teavee). The 2 nd film edition of Roald Dahl’s most famous book, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (1964) is an amazing adventure in a factory. The movie opens with a description of Charlie Bucket (our hero) and Mr Willy Wonka, chocolate maker extraordinaire.   When Wonka announces that he has hidden 5 Golden Tickets underneath random Wonka chocolate bars in any of the 194 countries on Earth, the whole world sets on a chocolate-buying spree. Over a week’s time period, 4 golden tickets were found. The winners included:         Greedy boy Augustus Gloop from Dusseldorf, Germany.        Overconfident gum-chewer Violet Beauregarde from Atlanta, Georgia, USA.       Sp...

Director: Stephen Anderson Producer: Dorothy McKim Cast: Daniel Hansen, Jordan Fry (Lewis), Wesley Singerman (Wilbur Robinson), Tom Selleck (Cornelius), Stephen Anderson (Bowler Hat Guy, Tallulah, Bud Robinson), Ethan Sandler (DOR-15) Genre: Animation/Family Based on the 1990 book titled ‘ A Day with Wilbur Robinson’, Meet the Robinsons is another adventure in the future. The movie starts with a woman placing a baby in front of an orphanage. 12 years later, Lewis (the baby, who is now 12 years old) is an amazing inventor. At an invention convention, he meets a shady teen named Wilbur who claims to be from the future. To prove it, Wilbur takes Lewis to the future. There he meets Wilbur’s family consisting of: ·        Goofy old man Bud. ·        Former scientist Lucille. ·        Ventriqolist uncle Fritz. ·        Obese uncle Joe. ·   ...

Directors: Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck Producers: Peter Del Vecho, Byron Howard Starring: Idina Menzel (Elsa), Kristen Bell (Anna), Josh Gad (Olaf), Evan Rachel Wood (Iduna) Frozen 2 (2019) , often stylised as Frozen II is the 58 th Disney animated film and a direct sequel to Frozen (2013). The movie starts with a flashback to the time Anna and Elsa were young. Their mom, Queen Iduna, used to sing them a lullaby about the Ahtohallan River (‘All Is Found’). After a few minutes, the movie returns back to the present times. Three years after her coronation, Elsa is having a good time, but she feels something strange internally. Plus, she is hearing a voice which is probably calling her (‘Into the Unknown’), but she accidentally enrages the spirits and almost destroys Arendelle [A1]   (the kingdom which Elsa rules). When the whole of Arendelle’s population takes refuge in the cliffs after the almost destruction of the kingdom, Elsa promises that she will save Arendelle. Want to...

Directors: Byron Howard, Rich Moore Producer: Clark Spencer Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin (Judy Hopps), Jason Bateman (Nick Wilde), Idris Elba (Inspector Bogo), Jenny Slate (Bellwether) Genre: Animation/Comedy The 55 th Disney animated film; Zootopia (titled Zootropolis in the United Kingdom and Zoomania in Germany) is a mind-blowing film based in the world of animals. The movie starts with an opening narration by Judy Hopps, a 9 year old rabbit who wants to become a police officer. But she is tormented by bullies Gideon Grey and Travis, as there never been a bunny police officer. 15 years later, Judy has passed her exam and is now the first bunny police officer. In Zootopia, she becomes a meter maid. While she is on parking duty, Hopps meets a sly fox hustler, Nicholas ‘Nick’ Wilde near the Lemming Brothers Bank. But Judy is recruited to find Emmitt Otterton, a North American otter gone missing. Judy then seeks the help of Nick to find Emmitt; since Judy thinks the fox is the ...

Directors: Adrian Molina, Lee Unkrich Producer: Darla K. Anderson Starring: Anthony Gonzalez (Miguel), Gael Garcia Bernal (Hector), Benjamin Bratt (Ernesto de la Cruz), Alanna Ubach (Imelda) The first Pixar film with an all- Latino cast, Coco (2017) is an adventure with (dead) family. The movie opens with a boy named Miguel explaining his passion for music, the ancestral ban on music in his family and his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz.   Then the movie moves on and shows Elena Rivera (Miguel’s grandmother) trying to prevent Miguel or anyone else from playing music. When Miguel is shining shoes (Miguel shines shoes rather than make shoes) at the Plaza de la Cruz, a musician was also getting his shoes shined by Miguel and noticed the shoe-shiner’s passion for music. Later, when Elena finds out about the music stuff, she destroyed Miguel’s makeshift guitar. The same day, when Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) starts formally, Miguel entered Ernesto de la Cruz’s mausoleum, ta...

Director: Paresh Mokashi Producers: Paresh Mokashi, Ronnie Screwvala, Smiti Kanodia, Amit Patwardhan. Starring: Nandu Madhav (Dadasaheb Phalke), Mohit Gokhale (Bhalchandra), Vibhavari Deshpande (Saraswati Phalke) Harishchandrachi Factory is a Marathi-language film based on the life and works of the Father of Indian Cinema, Dadasaheb Phalke. The movie began with Dhundiraj Govind ‘Dadasaheb’ Phalke a.k.a ‘Professor Kelpha’ showing weird and wonderful magic tricks to children. To perform his vanishing magic trick, Dadasaheb ran away. =      “ He’s gone! ” He actually had made the kids believe that he vanished. The place he found himself later was a tent screening a movie called ‘The Life of Christ’. After the movie, he decided that he will invent filmmaking. Wow! Hadn’t that been invented 41 years earlier? I’ll do the jokes, thanks. He just meant that he will create an Indian movie. But how could he? He didn’t have enough money to go to London to lear...