New material for a spring collection is coming to a cinema near you in March.
Released on 6 March 2020, ‘Onward’ is the 22nd feature film from Pixar.
Featuring a voice cast that includes Tom Holland (In the Heart of the Sea), Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Enough Said) and Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures), this computer-animated fantasy focuses on two teenage brothers who complete a magical quest in under 24 hours.
Almost two years ago, the science fiction horror ‘A Quiet Place’ grossed just over $340million worldwide on a production budget of up to only $21million and currently holds a 95% approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
So the stakes are high for its sequel ‘A Quiet Place: Part II’, which opens on 19 March 2020, to do just as well as its predecessor. John Krasinski returns at writer/director while Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins Returns) reprises her Screen Actors Guild Award winning role.
Another computer animation, this time from DreamWorks, will be ‘Trolls World Tour’ which is due for release on 20 March 2020. A sequel to the 2016 film ‘Trolls’, which won a Grammy and received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for its original song ‘Can’t Stop The Feeling!’, features Justin Timberlake (Inside Llewyn Davis) and Anna Kendrick (Twilight) reprising their leading voice roles.
On 27 March 2020, ‘Mulan’ marks the 16th Disney live-action remake of its animated films in just over 25 years. An additional 13 are in various stages of development.
In Scotland I attended Dunfermline High School from 2010 to 2016 and Edinburgh Napier University from 2016 to 2020, emerging with two Advanced Higher and five Higher qualifications from the former and graduating with an undergraduate bachelor of arts honours degree in journalism from the latter. After two years away from further education due to the coronavirus pandemic, I'm going to be studying the MFA Photography course at York St John University in England from 2022 to 2024. I've achieved The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Bronze) Award and received grade five level certification for electronic keyboard from Trinity College London. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, writing, watching television series, listening to music and going to the cinema as well as catching up with friends, travelling by railway and hostelling overnight and overindulging in food and drinks in a pub or restaurant then having to go to the gym to burn it all off again.
By studying journalism and photography, my aim of practicing photojournalism professionally will hopefully be once step closer. Both are partial artforms requiring the rest of the work to be undertaken by the audience, the specialism of photojournalism, however, providing each of its two parts with greater context. Exploring photographic techniques (aerial, timelapse, editing) through a variety of journalistic styles (features, poetry, songwriting) will allow me to develop my portfolio, hone my camera skillset and narrow my focus further in anticipation of working life. Without a global pandemic to deal with this time. Fingers crossed.
