daily stream: if you give a mouse a global entertainment empire…
1928’s “Steamboat Willie” is streaming globally on Disney+.
Walt Disney
loaded question: does Disney animation belong in the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
And if it is going to appear there, does the museum have an obligation to engage in robust criticism of it (not necessarily negative, just analytical) to avoid it feeling like, as a New York Times critic termed it, “a sponsored content post”?
The Founder movie review: look at what the golden arches hath wrought
Rather brilliant and kind of inspiring until it turns frightening and even sinister. A dark tale of the beginning of end-stage capitalism as profit above all.
Tomorrowland (aka Tomorrowland: A World Beyond) movie review: back to the future
It gets a tad heavy-handed, but my eyes welled with tears of geeky joy at the film’s embrace of an optimism it steadfastly refuses to see as old-fashioned.
Saving Mr. Banks review: behold the unclassic curmudgeon
A smart, snappy, soulful look at how Mary Poppins got Disneyfied, and the redemptive power of story for both teller and listener.
cannot contain my excitement for the London Film Festival
I’m hyperventilating from the array of overwhelming movie awesomeness before me.
Saving Mr. Banks trailer: Tom Hanks as Walt Disney? oh my god yes
Also: Emma Thompson and Paul Giamatti in anything, obviously.
awesome fake poster of Ryan Gosling in a Walt Disney biopic (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (retro trailer)
Gotta love Walt Disney himself introducing the seven dwarfs…
U.K. box office: ‘This Is It’ not so huge
Up is down after Michael Jackson’s arrival at multiplexes: 1. Michael Jackson’s This Is It: £4.9 million (NEW) 2. Up: £3.4 million (4th week; drops 10%) 3. Fantastic Mr. Fox: £1.5 million (2nd week; up 2%) 4. Saw VI: £.94 million (2nd week; drops 46%) 5. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant: £.54 million (2nd … more…
