They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for December, 2021
A Study in Disney: ‘The Black Cauldron’ (1985)
Disney is as much a part of our lives as love and death. It’s wrapped around us, and not just in our childhood. There are thousands and thousands of Disney movies by this point but the one that really shape the company and the culture are the animated features. Disney busted out of the gate […]
A Study in Disney: ‘The Fox and the Hound’ (1981)
Disney is as much a part of our lives as love and death. It’s wrapped around us, and not just in our childhood. There are thousands and thousands of Disney movies by this point but the one that really shape the company and the culture are the animated features. Disney busted out of the gate […]
A Study in Disney: ‘The Rescuers’ (1977)
Disney is as much a part of our lives as love and death. It’s wrapped around us, and not just in our childhood. There are thousands and thousands of Disney movies by this point but the one that really shape the company and the culture are the animated features. Disney busted out of the gate […]
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
When it comes to mass volley of Spider-Man movies, I confess that I am guilty of being “that guy.” I have complained that there have been too many Spider-Man movies, too many origin stories, too many reiterations of the same idea all spinning around and around, like The Wheel of Samsara, casting this iconic hero […]
A Study in Disney: ‘The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh’ (1977)
Merry Christmas, everyone! Disney is as much a part of our lives as love and death. It’s wrapped around us, and not just in our childhood. There are thousands and thousands of Disney movies by this point but the one that really shape the company and the culture are the animated features. Disney busted out […]
A Study in Disney: ‘Robin Hood’ (1973)
Disney has been with us for almost a century now, and so it is safe to say that there might only be a finite number of people left whose childhood wasn’t touched by one of Walt’s confections. They’re part of our culture, part of our collective imagination. Over the next several months, I am going […]
A Study in Disney: ‘The Aristocats’ (1970)
Disney is as much a part of our lives as love and death. It’s wrapped around us, and not just in our childhood. There are thousands and thousands of Disney movies by this point but the one that really shape the company and the culture are the animated features. Disney busted out of the gate […]
The Lost Daughter (2021)
I tend to be a person who proudly announces that I like to be challenged. I like a film that challenges me to consider exactly how I feel about it. Oddly enough, I had to see Maggie Gyllenhaal’s adaptation of The Lost Daughter twice before I realized that my issues with the film were a […]
