An incredibly beautiful movie which centres massively on the pressure of adolescence boys and how complex they can be. 

Miyazaki chose to go the route of more adult themes instead of the usual child friendly genre. A very thought provoking movie with layer after layer with an open ending for viewers to interpret how they wish.

Mahito deals with grief after the loss of his mother and struggles to feel a connection with his step mum. We see him go…

These sort of movies are my favourite. I can see where James Cameron got his influence for Avatar.

Avatar & Pocahontas are two of my favourite movies and this movie falls on the same principles. A clash between cultures and civilisations and deciding whether we should just leave things be or forever keep evolving at the cost of the other species on this planet and the habitats that they thrive on. 

Ashitaka believes in peace and thinks both can live alongside…

What I thoroughly enjoyed about this movie is how it captures what it’s like to really love music and how it can change the way you feel, a proper escape.

It’s a timeless coming of age story that I think most people can relate to in some sense whether they were growing up in the 70s/80s or not. 

I know it’s loosely based on Cameron’s life growing up but I don’t think William needed to be 15. It did make…

I believe this is one of the only Disney remakes done right. 

My biggest concern coming in was if Maia would be able to give a good enough performance at such a young age to do justice to Lilo’s huge personality of a character and she certainly did just that. She had me laughing and smiling several times through the movie and she did really well to help balance the movie with humour while Sydney (Nani) took on the more…