Remakes as a concept are unfairly maligned (the same can be said for spin-offs). There have been plenty of stinkers made in practice, but a remake doesn’t have to be a bad idea. In fact, they can be on par with or, on occasion, even better than the original. For years now Disney has been … ...
Read MoreWes Anderson’s new film Isle of Dogs tells the story of a twelve-year-old boy searching for his dog. The movie is set twenty years in the future, when Japan has become overrun with dogs and dog-specific diseases. Mayor Kobayashi sends all dogs in the country to Trash Island, which is exactly w...
Read More“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.” If The Hunchback and Notre Dame was too dark for Disney’s audience and Hercules was too silly, I think it fair to say that they found a happy medium with Mulan. The film re-tells an ancient Chinese legend about a woma...
Read More“This isn’t about opportunity; it’s about integrity.” Ted Kennedy, younger brother of Jack and Bobby, was known as the Lion of the Senate. He famously championed bills for women’s rights, education, and the impoverished, and was the potential candidate Richard Nixon feared the most with re...
Read More“People always do crazy things…when they’re in love.” The 1990’s were a turbulent time at Walt Disney Animation Studio. 1989’s The Little Mermaid had laid the groundwork for what animation historians now call the Disney Renaissance. Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King wer...
Read MoreA Quiet Place, starring John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, follows the Abbott family as they survive in the aftermath of an event that leaves the world in ruins and dangerous monsters running around. As the creatures are attracted to sound, the Abbotts have learned to live making as little noise as po...
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