‘Yellow Submarine’ – An Animation Thesis

Fifty years ago, feature animation and popular music came together, and created something glorious. My next pick for "Animation Thesis" is, unlike the three films before it, something that the House of Mouse was never involved with in any way... Yet, the House of Mouse considering doing a remake of it at one point in …

Make Up Your Own Mind

Another year, another live-action Disney film that tried to do something a little different has possibly failed at the box office... Walt Disney Pictures' adaptation of Madeleine D'Engle's arguably-unfilmmable A Wrinkle in Time hit screens this weekend. Backed by vague and unconvincing trailers, the film seemed to get by on its director's pedigree and its refreshingly …

The Many Logos of Disney Home Ent.

I'm a long-time Disney VHS collector who is fascinated by the little details that differentiate tapes, from all the different eras of Disney's home media division. In a way, it's kind of odd... Walt Disney Home Video had a logo before Walt Disney Productions proper. Walt Disney's films, up until the mid-1950s, had been distributed …

Rottenfield

WARNING: Major spoilers for THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX ahead... I saw a "bad" movie and really enjoyed it... Yesterday, Netflix surprise-released The Cloverfield Paradox. The third film in the J. J. Abrams Twilight Zone-esque series of weirdo sci-fi tales, it was - for the longest time - aiming for a theatrical release last year. Delays kept …

The Beach Boys vs. The Beatles – My Take

Is it a decades-old question? Is it the debate to end all debates in the world of music? One thing is for certain... I haven't heard the end of it for years, and I'm not very old. I'm, in fact, a 25-year-old music lover. Who am I to talk about the music of the 1960s, …

When Computer Animation Stopped Being Exciting For Me

Days have passed. A lot of the recent, unfortunate news concerning Pixar has somewhat blown over, though many fans - such as myself - are still in some state of mental disarray. A rumor concerning John Lasseter's actual exit from The Walt Disney Company as a whole - leaving the top chairs vacant at Pixar, …

The Pixar Problem

This is a follow-up to what I had written about this week's shocking news... I had posted merely nine or so hours after the news broke that John Lasseter, one of the men who was extremely instrumental in making Pixar into what it is now and their creative overseer, is no different from other terrible …

It’s Time to Stop: An ‘Incredibles 2’ Rant

First thing's first... This is not a rant about the existence of Pixar's Incredibles 2. I'm very much looking forward to the sequel to one of my all-time favorite films. Sorry if the title gave you a near jolt! No, this is more a rant about something that happens almost every time a popular Pixar …

Little Obsessions: Finding a Song

One of my weirder little interests is production music. What is production music? Recordings meant for anyone to use, like stock music. To my understanding, you get to use it for a small fee in whatever it is you're making, be it a TV show, film, what have you. As such, it's very common in …

Marvel Hyperbole

Apparently Thor: Ragnarok is peak Marvel Cinematic Universe. I saw it yesterday and enjoyed it very much, but to me, it was hardly the greatest Marvel Studios film of all time. Apparently Thor: Ragnarok is the rare fun and breezy Marvel film, and fun and breezy film in general. Was I sleeping for three years? …