-
Recent Posts
Archives
Categories
Category Archives: movie review
Disney Remakes 7 – The Jungle Book (2016)
Now that I’m starting to get my life back under control, it’s time to continue this series on Disney live-action Remakes. Today’s subject is 2016’s The Jungle Book, the remake for the last movie that Walt Disney produced. He died … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, movies
Tagged academy award, bagheera, baloo, ben kingsley, bill murray, cgi, Christopher Walken, disney, disney movies, disney remakes, gigantopithecus, i wanna be like you, idris elba, jon favreau, kaa, king louie, los angeles times, lupita nyong'o, movie review, movies, mowgli, neel sethi, new york times, orangutan, pixar, raksha, rebecca williams, rotten tomatoes, Scarlett Johannsen, shere khan, the jungle book, visual effects society, walt disney
1 Comment
Disney remakes 6 – 101 Dalmatians
One Hundred and One Dalmatians was the second last animated movie Walt Disney released before his death in 1966. Between this and The Sword and the Stone, most people tend to agree that this is the better one. It also … Continue reading
Disney Remakes 5 – Maleficent
On paper, the sound of a Sleeping Beauty remake focusing on the character of Maleficent sounds awesome. Sleeping Beauty released in 1959, and the main villain still remains up there with the greatest villains in Disney history. It’s also a … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, movies
Tagged angelina jolie, cgi, disney, disney princess, disney remakes, ella fanning, fairies, imelda staunton, joe roth, king stefan, maleficent, movie review, movies, prince phillip, princess aurora, robert stromberg, rotten tomatoes, sharlto copley, sleeping beauty
5 Comments
Disney Remakes 4 – Lady and the Tramp
A lot of the recent criticism thrown at the Disney remakes suggests that these live action remakes barely change anything. A lot of them are far too similar to the original movie. The first three remakes I’ve looked at don’t … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, movies
Tagged cats, cgi, disney, disney remake, disney remakes, dogs, justin theroux, lady, lady and the tramp, live action remake, movie remake, movie review, movies, remake, romance, sam elliot, tessa thompson, the siamese cat song, tramp, what a shame
1 Comment
Disney Remakes 3 – Alice in Wonderland
Three movies into this Disney remake series and we’re already looking at the second Tim Burton directed movie. Burton can be a brilliant filmmaker, but his strange style can also be detrimental to certain types of films. For example, The … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, movies
Tagged alan rickman, alice, alice in wonderland, anne hathaway, cgi, cheshire cat, christopher lee, disney, disney movies, disney remakes, england, helena bonham carter, jabberwock, jabberwocky, jonny depp, lewis carroll, live action remake, mia wasikowaska, movie review, movies, sony pictures, the mad hatter, the white queen, tim burton, wonderland
4 Comments
Disney Remakes 2 – Cinderella
I first saw this movie while preparing to write my post about Cinderella about 3 years ago. I’ve written about a lot of movies since. Even though I was never the target audience for any of the Disney Princess movies, … Continue reading
Disney Remakes 1 – Dumbo
Back in 2017, I started looking at movies on this blog when I got the idea to watch through every single Disney Animation Studios movie, in order of release. I wrote about every single one of them, getting through what … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, movies
Tagged box office bomb, cgi, colin farrell, danny devito, disney, disney animation studios, disney remakes, dumbo, eva green, katherine arnold, michael keaton, movie review, movies, tim burton
3 Comments
Classic Masterpieces 4: Ben-Hur (1959)
Of the four movies I looked at this month, this was the one I’ve been looking forward to the most. I had only seen it once before, but I remember it being not only very impressive from a production standpoint … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, movies
Tagged academy award, ben-hur, ben-hur: the tale of the christ, biblical epic, cathy o'donnell, charlton heston, christian movie, christopher fry, classic masterpieces, classic movies, epic drama, gore vidal, hugh griffith, jesus, judah ben-hur, karl tunberg, lew wallace, marie ney, martha scott, maxwell anderson, mgm, mgm studios, miklos rozsa, miriam, movie remake, movie review, movies, remake, roman, rome, sam zimbalist, tirzah, warner brothers, william wyler
1 Comment
Classic Masterpieces 3 – Casablanca
Of the classic films I’m looking at this month, this is the one I’ve seen the most, and is probably also the first classic masterpiece I watched out of the four of them. Released in 1942, it’s mostly a romantic … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, movies
Tagged academy award, american film institute, casablanca, casey robinson, classic masterpieces, classic movies, czech resistance, france, frances burnett, french resistance, howard koch, humphrey bogart, ilsa lund, ingrid bergman, joan alison, julius and philip epstein, morocco, movie review, movies, murray burnett, nazis, paul henreid, rick blaine, second world war, vichy-french, victor laszlo, warner brothers, world war 2, ww2
2 Comments
Classic Masterpieces 1 – Citizen Kane
This month, I’ll be looking at some of the greatest classic cinematic masterpieces of all-time. For this month, there are only two rules. One, it must have released before the year 1960, and two, it must be widely regarded as … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, movies
Tagged academy award, charles foster kane, citizen kane, classic masterpieces, classic movies, dorothy comingore, DVD Exclusive Video Premier Awards, greatest movie of all time, joseph cotton, life magazine, movie review, movies, new york daily news, orson welles, RKO Radio Pictures, roger ebert, rosebud, ruth warrick, video premier award
1 Comment
