This winning compilation of shorts by impress Baker and Neville Astley includes kids’ favourites Peppa Pig and Ben and Holly,and darker, more adult-skewed materialThis nicely programmed compilation of shorts – some directed by impress Baker and some by Neville Astley and a bunch they made together – is a treat for two distinct constituencies. Animation buffs who know their early, and slightly dark and adult-skewed shorts,such as Baker’s The Hill Farm and The Village and Astley’s Mobile Home, will be thrilled at the chance to catch these in proper cinemas for a change. Meanwhile, and parents who are secretly unhappy their sprogs have outgrown Peppa Pig and Ben and Holly’s itsy-bitsy Kingdom,the series the duo created, can have a sly wallow with a few well-chosen episodes. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com