Posts Tagged ‘Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures’
Film Review – Beauty and the Beast (2017) (Second Take)
“Delightfully nostalgic and artfully designed” From 101 Dalmatians (1996) to Alice in Wonderland (2010) to The Jungle Book (2016) comes Disney’s latest live-action adaptation of one of their classic and most loved animated films. Beauty and the Beast was one of my favorite films growing…
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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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Film Review – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Second Take)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is Disney’s first foray away from the Star Wars’ Episode films. It is coined as a standalone Star Wars film, but the term is misleading. Rogue One is set timeline-wise after Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and before…
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Film Review – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
“A long, long, long, long time ago…in a galaxy far far away…” The last time we saw our heroes we found out where Luke Skywalker was hiding away, Kylo Ren betrayed his father and a new nemesis is plotting (yet again) to rule the galaxy.…
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Film Review – Moana
In Disney’s Moana (2016), a precocious young daughter of a Polynesian chief takes it upon herself to travel out into the ocean to save her people. Legend has it that centuries earlier, a powerful demigod stole a magical stone known as the Heart of Te…
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Film Review – Doctor Strange
Have audiences reached superhero fatigue? When the screening of Doctor Strange (2016) ended, the audience I was with had a peculiar reaction. Instead of buzzing with excitement over what they’ve just seen, the crowd gathered their things and quietly shuffled out the door. It was…
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Film Review – Queen of Katwe
Moving, uplifting, important. All of these words can be used describe Disney’s new feel good family film Queen of Katwe. What’s wonderful here however is that this movie is all of those things, due both to the retelling of a compelling true story and some…
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Film Review – The Light Between Oceans
Great acting can carry a story. And you can’t get a better cast of contemporary actors than those featured in the new drama The Light Between Oceans. While the basics of the plot may at first blush seem overdone, a top notch troupe of performers…
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