As someone who usually went to the movie theater just about every single weekend, I usually end up seeing just about everything. Really the only reason that I won’t end up seeing a movie is if there’s already something better coming out that weekend, or it’s just […]
Hey, have you been curious about how exactly the Simpsons was going to react to the fact that Fox has been purchased by Disney in their ever-growing mission of corporate supremacy over the entertainment industry? It felt like it was only a matter of time before they […]
A couple of weeks ago I discussed HBO’s Watchmen, a show that I liked quite a bit, and which really hit home how powerful it is to use a more traditional television release schedule, coming out week by week so that everyone can have a communal experience and enjoy […]
Well folks, after mentioning the narrative whiplash effect that I’ve been experiencing lately switching between Catch Me If You Can and Oldboy, it turns out that I got ahead of myself. Because things are taking an even sharper turn this week, with a very different tale of familial love, the Incredibles! I […]
It’s now clear that we’re going to be enduring a whole bunch of “live-action” Disney remakes. When this all began, it seemed like a strange endeavor that could potentially lead to interesting things. But, it’s so far been a crapshoot whether the movies actually are worth it. Cinderella was […]
Well folks, it’s time to talk about the Marvel Cinematic Universe again. We’ve already had a hell of year when it comes to the costumes superheroics of the Marvel Universe, seeing one of their all-time greatest movies in Black Panther and the beginning of the culmination of their entire […]
After fourteen long years, it’s finally time to talk about the sequel to one of my absolute favorite films of all time. I’ve talked about it briefly before, back in the extremely early period of this blog, but the Incredibles is not only my favorite Pixar movie, not only […]
Seven weeks ago we had a pretty momentous installment of Cinematic Century when All Quiet on the Western Front introduced us to the wonderful world of sound with the first talkie to be featured on this project. And today we’ll be adding another first for this project with the […]
Pixar has been having kind of a rough couple of years. Not only are they embroiled in this wave of scandals that are racing through Hollywood, exposing all of the ingrained perversion in the industry, they just haven’t seemed to have been firing on all cylinders. Inside Out was […]
I really and truly love Disney. I completely understand people’s jaded complaints about the company and their products, but I’m a total sucker for them. They’ve perfected the formula for fairy tales, changing the way that fables and archetypal stories. But that doesn’t mean that I implicity trust […]