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The Little Prince. Dir. Mark Osborne. Paramount Pictures. 2015
The Little Prince. Dir. Mark Osborne. Paramount Pictures. 2015 910 1236 LPerek-Gokce1

“One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” In The Little Prince the depiction of foxes defies conventional animality as they generally symbolise…

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Porco Rosso. Dir. Hayao Miyazaki. Studio Ghibli. 1992.
Porco Rosso. Dir. Hayao Miyazaki. Studio Ghibli. 1992. 555 298 Catriona Keep

Porco Rosso follows a former fighter pilot who abandoned the Italian military, transformed into a pig, and becomes a bounty hunter that fights pirates. One day he meets American pilot…

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Hocus Pocus. Dir Kenny Ortega. Walt Disney Pictures. 1993
Hocus Pocus. Dir Kenny Ortega. Walt Disney Pictures. 1993 1000 541 Katherine Milman

https://youtu.be/OFm_2RyxXjQ Figure 1 Figure two, internet discourse surrounding the personality of cats. Thackery Binx is one of the central figures of Hocus Pocus, and in doing this the film considers…

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Spirited Away. Dir Hayao Miyazaki. Toho Company Ltd. 2001.
Spirited Away. Dir Hayao Miyazaki. Toho Company Ltd. 2001. 560 360 Eve Bayliss

Miyazaki’s 2001 Spirited Away, blurs the binary of human, animal, mythology, and spirit. Each character has its own version of this intersectionality, creating different presentations of ontology that in turn…

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I. Dir. By David Yates. Warner Bros Pictures. 2010.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I. Dir. By David Yates. Warner Bros Pictures. 2010. 960 500 Danielle Marsh

Figure One – a promotional image. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (2011) is the penultimate film in the franchise. Harry, Ron and Hermione begin a desperate race…

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The Good Dinosaur. Dir. Peter Sohn. Disney Pixar. 2015.
The Good Dinosaur. Dir. Peter Sohn. Disney Pixar. 2015. 150 150 Lucinda Fox

https://youtu.be/R1nfAxkpx9M The Good Dinosaur Trailer Are you terrified of big, scary dinosaurs from films such as Jurassic Park? Well, The Good Dinosaur will change that perception. In a world where…

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Luca. Dir. Enrico Casarosa. Pixar Animation Studios. 2021
Luca. Dir. Enrico Casarosa. Pixar Animation Studios. 2021 150 150 Isabella Healey

At what point is a fish-out-of-water no longer a fish? Many films can be described as ‘fish-out-of-water’ stories, but very few take this as literally as Disney Pixar’s Luca. Our eponymous character…

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Wolfwalkers. Dir Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart. Apple TV+. 2020.
Wolfwalkers. Dir Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart. Apple TV+. 2020. 150 150 Eleanore Speight

This wild land must be civilised. Whilst this film’s premise – the child-friendly tale of two young werewolves attempting to end Oliver Cromwell’s invasion of Ireland – may sound bizarre,…

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Universal Pictures. 1982
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Universal Pictures. 1982 150 150 Callum Ratcliffe

https://youtu.be/qYAETtIIClk Figure 1: Trailer for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Figure 2: Grant (Sam Neill) reinforces the role of the surrogate father trope in Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg…

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Dumbo. Dir. Tim Burton. Walt Disney Studios. 2019.
Dumbo. Dir. Tim Burton. Walt Disney Studios. 2019. 150 150 Aisha Khan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NiYVoqBt-8&ab_channel=WaltDisneyStudios Magic. Mayhem. Friendship. Freedom. Come on down to Medici’s circus, where the newest attraction is an adorable baby elephant with ears too big to handle. Watch him soar above…

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