Tangled (review)

Between the title change and writing in a male character who appeared to be taking over the film, Disney didn’t seem at that interested in making a Rapunzel film that was actually about Rapunzel. But I should have trusted. Because if there’s one thing Disney has in spades — besides pink princesses — it is a capability to transform simple cartoons into cinematic magic.

trailer break: ‘Rabbit Hole’

At least the usual pap some people feel the need to spout when we lose loved ones gets a smackdown here. I hope that’s a sign that the rest of the movie is as honest about grief, and not falsely sentimental about loss and recovery.

question of the day: How big a problem is it that Hollywood no longer makes movies about blue-collar, working-class people?

Leah Rozen in The New York Times, writing about the new British film Made in Dagenham, about women in the late 1960s who struck the Ford plant where they worked, makes a cogent point that hadn’t occurred to me until I read her words, though it’s clearly so head-smackingly obvious that it almost doesn’t need to be said: Hollywood doesn’t make movies about working-class Americans anymore.