Pixar returns to theaters in a big way this week with Lightyear, the Angus MacLane-directed origin story of everybody’s favourite space ranger. This is the movie, we are told, that Toy Story’s Andy would have seen. To nobody’s surprise, Lightyear is powerfully animated. Scenes of… Read More »Review: ‘Lightyear’ is a Sci-Fi Ride Made for the Big Screen
Pay no attention to talk of a ‘target audience’ for Turning Red, landing March 11 on Disney+. Although it’s a confidently Asian, female-driven story—and a special treat for Millennials—Pixar’s latest feature has universal appeal as an allegory of the hormonal insanity of puberty. Director and… Read More »Review: Pixar’s ‘Turning Red’ is the Movie to Watch This Weekend
Magic beyond the Moors: Disney’s Maleficent stories transform love and take on Shakespeare I spent my weekend in the Moors. Well, I spent Saturday and Sunday soaking up all the Maleficent series has to offer (so far!), thanks to the Disney films, Holly Black’s Heart of… Read More »How Disney’s Maleficent stories transform love and take on Shakespeare
Disney’s “Mary Poppins Returns” is an ambitious project from the Mouse House. The original movie was such a huge success, Walt Disney was able to leverage the profits from the film to start building his Project X, the idea that would become EPCOT and then… Read More »Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns is practically perfect, in nearly every way
In Disney’s “Christopher Robin,” the young boy of the stories has grown up and ends up overcoming some very adult problems with the help of his childhood playtime friends – including the stuffed with fluff one – Winnie The Pooh Bear. Director Marc Forester (Finding… Read More »Review: Disney’s “Christopher Robin” bogs down in drudgery of being an adult, finds itself in creativity of youth
Editor: Do you have your review ready for Marvel Studios’ “Ant-Man and The Wasp?” Me: Sure! It was super-sized fun. Ed: I was hoping you could provide a bit more than that. Me: The humor and action captured the spirit of the first movie and… Read More »Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and The Wasp delivers laugh-out-loud fun to the big screen
Avengers: Infinity War is a movie ten years in the making (or six years if you’re starting with the first glimpse of Thanos). There is so much going on in this movie, it’s hard to know where to start. (Note: this will be a spoiler-free… Read More »Avengers: Infinity War review (spoiler free)
In Disney’s “A Wrinkle in Time” audiences are invited to go on an adventure with Meg Murry, her younger brother Charles Wallace, and Meg’s friend Calvin. Along the way they use the power of science, friendship, and love to solve the great mystery of her… Read More »Review: Disney’s ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ updates classic novel for today’s youth