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The Evolution of the Disney Villain

One of my pet peeves is nostalgia and the way it warps peoples’ perceptions. With everything from politics to pop culture, we’re always hearing about how great things used to be, and how much it all sucks now. We can observe trends within a particular time period, but these tendencies are often ...

Michael Giacchino to Score The Batman

At the Albert Music Hall last week, The Batman director Matt Reeves apparently got down on one knee and asked Michael Giacchino to score the film. The Star Trek composer said yes to this next iteration of Gotham’s favorite son, which is set to star Robert Pattinson. The film also stars the likes o...

REVIEW: The Addams Family (2019)

This Halloween season has brought us another iteration of The Addams Family, a series of characters created by Charles Addams for his cartoon strips and immortalized by the 1960’s sitcom. People often deride remakes, re-boots, and all kinds of re-interpretations in blanket statements, but it depen...

Top 5 Disney Heroines

In our review of Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, I discussed the character of Esmeralda a little, and it gave me an idea. A while back, I ranked Disney Princesses with the intent of writing an additional piece on the animation studio’s other heroines, and today I’d like to do so. These c...

Animation Rewind 2009: An Overview

Welcome to Animation Rewind: 2009 Edition, a new series where I’ll be reviewing many animated films that came out 10 years ago. Each week, there will be a new film that was released in 2009, and the order of each review will be chronological. The list of movies to be reviewed goes as follows: R...

REVIEW: Toy Story 4 (2019)

When Toy Story 4 was announced, I was not exactly thrilled. The Toy Story movies are very close to my heart; until The Incredibles came out in 2004, the first and second Toy Story films were my favorite movies ever. I consider Toy Story 2 one of the best sequels of all time and a …

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