Tag Archives: Disney

Disney is a conservative company, so it’s no surprise that they recently vetoed a potentially offensive cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy. The Internet has been a-buzz with news of James Gunn’s original idea for Stan Lee’s cameo. Lee’s appearance ...

In everyone’s childhood there are a few stories that leave their mark. For me, those stories included Star Wars, The Hero and the Crown, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, tales of King Arthur and his Knights, and The Chronicles of Prydain. ...

Long-time Boy Meets World fans as well as Disney Channel viewers eagerly await tonight’s premiere of Girl Meets World in the US. Michael Jacobs was reportedly originally approached by Disney to remake Boy Meets World. Understandably (and thankfully) he didn’t ...

Maleficent is a badass. There’s no two ways about it. She is one of the best baddies in the Disney animated classics archive: her voice, her look, her powers, everything about her is brilliant. What a legend. It’s no surprise ...

It has long been in the rumour-mill – ever since Disney bought Lucasfilm – that there would be several spin-off, standalone feature films based in the Star Wars universe. It is presumed that these will focus on fringe characters, such ...

These days, kids films aren’t considered ‘good’ unless they have lots of laughs for the adults as well as the kids. They aren’t really kids films at all any more, if you ask me… if they try to please both ...

When people think of comic books, they tend to think of DC and Marvel. The big names from the golden age who gave us such iconic characters as Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and Captain America. For over a decade, ...

I was listening to Lorde belt out ‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World’ on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack when I had a thought: ‘By Jove, she’s right!’ It isn’t like the song is new – or one I’m unfamiliar with ...

It has always been confounding to me that the winners of prestigious industry awards when it comes to TV, films, and books (amongst other industries), always seemed to be ‘critic’s choices’. Now, I recognize that I may have generalized in ...

Back in 1983, M*A*S*H bowed out, having been running for 11 years (eight years longer than the real-world war it depicted. The episode, Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen was two and a half hours long, two hours longer than the normal ...