Posts Tagged ‘Alan Menken’
Film Review – Disenchanted
Enchanted (2007) came as a surprise in how it balanced a traditional fairytale with a modern sensibility. It worked to undermine the familiar tropes of princesses, dashing heroes, and evil witches – and yet it had such an earnest sensibility that it can win over the…
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Film Review – Aladdin (2019)
Disney’s shameless practice of remaking their classic animated films into cynical live action cash grabs continues with Aladdin (2019). Perhaps I’m being a little too facetious with that last sentence. There’s nothing inherently wrong with remakes, some of the greatest pictures ever made were redone…
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Film Review – Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Disney is on a live action(ish) remake kick of their classic animated films. Cinderella, The Jungle Book, and now Beauty and the Beast. The original is a Disney classic, which opened in theatres in 1991, and garnered two Academy Awards and was nominated for two…
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