looks like it’s about time Disney made a cartoon feature set in Canada (and other adventures in social networking)
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question of the day: Are ethnic stereotypes in pop culture — such as the cartoonish Scots in Brave — ever defensible?
Is there a way to utilize such stereotypes in storytelling without being offensive?
question of the day: With so many expensive movies sinking this year, will Hollywood step back from the blockbuster?
Or will the industry double-down and take even bigger gambles with $500 million movies in coming years?
Beauty and the Beast 3D (review)
As with every other 3D conversion of older classic films, it’s the chance to see a wonderful movie once more up on the big screen that’s the real reason to revisit it.
African Cats (review)
A gorgeously photographed, astonishingly intimate look at two big-cat families in the Maasai Mara game preserve in Kenya…
a critic gets a bit of love and respect in these dark days for arts journalism (and other adventures in social networking)
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Mirror Mirror (review)
It’s astonishing how little crazy one needs to bring to a movie at the moment to make it leap out as fresh and distinctive.
question of the day: Why are we obsessed with origin stories?
Disney figured we were all dying to see a John Carter origin story. Were we? Or maybe only Hollywood is obsessed with origin stories, and we’re just along for the ride?
awesome fake poster of Ryan Gosling in a Walt Disney biopic (and other adventures in social networking)
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John Carter (review)
This dreary Disneyfied inconsequence features all the bigotries of century-old pulp fiction and none of the romance, neither the sexual nor the adventurous kind…
