Film review: FROZEN, from Built For Speed

What would an oppressively hot and sweaty Australian Christmas be without an animated Disney fantasy set in a wintery wonderland.  Disney’s’ Christmas offering for 2013 is tween-oriented girl-power  adventure, Frozen which is based on Hans Christian Anderson’s fable The Snow Queen. Kristen Bell stars as the voice of irrepressible teen princess Anna whose family rules the fictitious kingdom of Arrendelle. Following

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Film review: RISE OF THE GUARDIANS from Built For Speed

Despite the similar name, the 3D animated fantasy Rise of the Guardians has nothing to do with the film from a couple of years ago Legend of the Guardians: the owls of Ga’hoole.  Rise is based on the Guardians of Childhood novels by William Joyce rather than the Ga’hoole stories by Kathryn Lansky. Like Shrek and Who Framed Roger Rabbit,

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