Disney Byways: “John Henry”
I had originally planned to post today about Return From Witch Mountain, to pair with…
The King’s Deathbed: DreamWorks in 2004 (Year of the Month)
Nicole Laporte’s excellent book The Men Who Would Be King chronicles the whole sad saga of…
Year of the Month: Jacob Klemmer on the Postmodernism of SHREK 2
If you judge a sequel purely on how much it improves on the original, then…
Lunch Links: The Quarantine Works of Conner O’Malley
Since 2013, over a series of Vines, YouTube videos, and guest spots on the likes…
Year of the Month: The Power of THE AVIATOR
You get a sense of Howard Hughes being Icarus with the waxed wings…He’s gotta fly…
Year of the Month: Sunil Patel on the Powerlessness of THE AVIATOR
I certainly chose an interesting time to get around to watching Martin Scorsese’s Howard Hughes…
Celebrating the Living: Meredith Baxter
Last week, I debated with myself for a while before going for the sitcom. This…
Attention Must Be Paid: Howard Ashman
Heath Ledger opened the door, I suppose; he was the first person I wrote about…
Disney Byways: ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN
I don’t know how many times I’ve failed to write about this movie because I…
Year of the Month: Adriano Ferreira on CLOSER
The first time I saw Closer, about fifteen years ago (it was released in Brazil…