Tag: Disney

  • Life, Animated

    Life, Animated

    Almost everyone has a history with Disney animated movies, especially those of us who profess to be film junkies. We weren’t taking the likes of Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorcese as children. Instead, we were covering our faces with blankets as Bambi and his mother ran from hunters or when Scar pushed Mufasa into a…

  • The Jungle Book

    The Jungle Book

    “Now this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky…” begins Kipling’s poem in the original Jungle Book. The Law of the Jungle is not just survival of the fittest, it is a recitation of all that brings life and order to the wolf pack. How does the…

  • Tomorrowland

    Tomorrowland

    Tomorrowland has a simple message: stop being so negative. Yes, there are broader critiques of everything from a disaster-obsessed media to government regulation to dystopic science-fiction but this one message never gets lost. This is due in equal parts to a series of on-the-nose speeches and eye-popping utopic imagery seen during the film’s most breathtaking…