The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
The Persistence of Disney, Part 2: Pinocchio (1940)
Kid’s movies don’t deal with consequences anymore. In today’s society, we are so afraid of scaring kids straight that we avoid it all together, particularly...
Ghostbusters (2016)
Well . . . at the very least you can say it’s better than Ghostbusters 2. Amid all the gnashing and biting over this movie...
Lights Out (2016)
Is it odd to suggest that a movie that only runs 81 minutes might need trimming? That thought occurred to me all through Lights Out...
The Persistence of Disney, Part 1: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Dali studied The Persistence of Memory. I study The Persistence of Disney. As it has been in the past, Disney owns the landscape of film...
The Secret Life of Pets (2016)
The timing may be tricky for The Secret Life of Pets which has the misfortune of arriving in the shadow of Finding Dory, a surprise...
The Neon Demon (2016)
“She's a diamond among a sea of glass,” says a fashion designer of the pretty but not outrageously remarkable ingénue who has just arrived in...
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
As a critic, this is where I am suppose to tell you that Independence Day: Resurgence is just another needless sequel propped up for the...
