CRUELLA and the bad thing about feeling good
CRUELLA is like THE RISE OF SKYWALKER: A mess of a movie that nevertheless provides a valuable lesson in how not to tell stories.
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LOKI, a solid rebound for the streaming MCU
Marvel’s most enduring villain in back, as Loki returns in his own time traveling solo series. Check out our review of the first 2 episodes.
CRUELLA, a high-fashion bore
The latest Disney live-action redo is their biggest challenge yet, turning Cruella De Vil into an anti-hero. Spoilers: it doesn’t work out very well. Read our review of Cruella!
THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER: second verse, same as the first
Right on the heels of Marvel Studios’ first actual foray into television, WandaVision, comes The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. While WandaVision made an attempt to shake up the MCU paradigm, even if that mostly just amounted to putting flesh on a pair of woefully underdeveloped characters and “sitcom tv, …
RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON provides just enough spark to break through the Disney humdrum
Fear not, parents, you have something new to add to the rotation now!
WANDAVISION: loaded with style, but a tepid beginning
Does the highly anticipated Marvel Studios streaming series live up to expectations? Read our review to find out.
SOUL achieves greatness by rejecting it
Hobbies are funny things. As adults, we often come by them casually and with little sense of obligation. Maybe a friend convinces us to run a 5K with them and we find unexpected joy in running, or a quick search on Ancestry.com evolves into a years-long project to trace our …
Wrestling with HAMILTON in 2020
In celebration of Hamilton dropping on Disney+ today, I revisit it and wrestle with the show’s politics and legacy five incredibly long years later.
Is STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER The Worst Movie of the Decade?
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will be an enormous hit this year, further cementing Disney’s box office domination. Is it complete garbage?