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Black Widow vs. The Red Menace
Black Widow has been around for a few days now, both in theaters and on Disney+ (for an extra fee that’s significantly more than the price of a movie ticket even here in New York City), and if the box office is any indication, people are seeing it – and, according to the Rotten Tomatoes …...
Read MorePixar’s Newest Character Turns Red
This Tuesday, July 13th, Disney and Pixar released the first trailer for Turning Red. Set in Toronto, Canada, Turning Red follows a young girl named Mei Lee, who turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited. The film will star Rosalie Chiang as Mei and Sandra Oh as her mother. Turning ...
Read MoreAdaptation and Themes in In the Heights
Last week, I talked about the recent backlash against Lin Manuel-Miranda. His appearances and creations for Broadway, movies, and television prior to Hamilton spanning nearly two decades seemed to inspire a mixture of admiration and indifference. But after Hamilton hit Broadway, and again once it we...
Read MoreStar Wars Releases First Look at Visions
On Saturday, July the 3rd, Disney and Lucasfilm released a sneak peek at Visions, the anime Star Wars series Kathleen Kenedy revealed at investor day 2020. We also learned the names of season 1’s episodes and what animation studios would make them. Studio Colorido, creators of the Netflix anim...
Read MoreA Word in Defense of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lately, I’ve grown increasingly tired of something that seems utterly inescapable. It’s been heading in this direction for quite some time, but I’m exhausted by the constant barrage of film criticism that evaluates art in solely political terms. Both “sides” do this, an...
Read MoreIs Kevin Feige’s Development of the MCU a Myth?
Spike | Jun 10, 2021 | 1
The phrase “Captain Marvel is the most powerful character in the MCU” was a popular Kevin Feige quote from an interview with Vulture to promote that character’s already controversial film. These types of statements are dumb since a character’s diegetic power levels are irrele...
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