Although it may not be the game changing cinematic event many fans were hoping it would be, SUPERMAN does bode well for the future of the DC Cinematic Universe.
For Disney's 100th birthday, it releases "Wish," a reheat of classic tropes and themes, and one of the most disappointing animated films in its canon.
An earnestness to the story and the father/son relationship allows "Strange World" resonate far more than the typical animated offering of this type.
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Disney appears to be getting more and more comfortable making films more like their Pixar counterparts. Zootopia, their most recent effort, is less Frozen-style musical flair and more Wreck-It Ralph, aimed at delivering humor and character with equal parts cynicism and heart. Does it work? For the most part, yes; visually stunning and funnier than you might think, the film is a joy to sit through ...[Read More]
Frozen was a really great movie but the songs got a little annoying. The movie is a cartoon musical. Most of the songs were good but some went on for too long. I liked the movie because it was interesting and was not just another true love’s first kiss story. Frozen starts off with two Princess, Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel) and Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell) who live with their parents in a ...[Read More]
Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph was one of my favorite movies last year, and it gave me a good feeling to see that the House of Mouse can still make great animated films even when they aren’t under the Pixar banner. After that, I was eagerly anticipating the next Disney animated feature, Frozen, loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen and written and co-directed by Jennifer L...[Read More]
Hello once again, dear readers, and I hope that at least some of you got out to see Rush this past weekend. This week’s belated edition of Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at the new UK trailer for the upcoming Disney animated film Frozen. Premise: Anna (voice of Kristen Bell) teams up with mountain man Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and his reindeer sidekick Sven in an epic journey, encounter...[Read More]
For most of my life, almost as long as I’ve loved movies, I’ve been a huge fan of video games. Because of that, it’s been disappointing that films based on games have had such a dismal history, with many of them being pretty much unwatchable. But on the other hand, there have been some great films about video games – Tron (1982) and WarGames (1983) spring immediately to mind. Wel...[Read More]
With the cooler fall weather comes the beginning of the long wait for the big year-end movies. But in the meantime, there are still plenty of cool trailers being released. This week’s Trailer Trashin’ looks at Disney’s upcoming animated film Wreck-It Ralph. Premise: Wreck-It Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) is the villain of the arcade video game Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the gam...[Read More]
In recent years, the mash-up novel, a work of fiction which combines a pre-existing text, often a classic work of fiction, with elements of popular genres such as vampire or zombie stories, has become quite popular. The first and arguably most successful of these was Seth Grahame-Smith’s 2009 book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Now the mash-up novel has been brought to movie screens with a...[Read More]