WALL-E: Hope for a Better Tomorrow

CAPTAIN Psst! Computer. (the holo-screen lights up) Define “dancing”. BACK OUTSIDE THE AXIOM Eve and Wall-E descend along the starboard side. Spiral gracefully around one another. SHIP’S COMPUTER (V.O.) “Dancing” – A series of movements, involving two partners, where speed and rhythm match harmoniously with music. Wall-E’s extinguisher runs out of foam. He lets it […]

Spirited Away: The Grace of Immersive Reality

“Anime may depict fictional worlds, but I nonetheless believe that at its core it must have a certain realism. Even if the world depicted is a lie, the trick is to make it seem as real as possible. Stated another way, the animator must fabricate a lie that seems so real viewers will think the […]

SDCC ’19 Marvel Updates: Phase 4 & Beyond

Marvel Studios took the stage in Hall H to reveal the upcoming movies and TV shows from the studio – including Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and what’s planned for Disney+. President Kevin Feige was at Comic-Con 90-minute appearance in Hall H, where he announced that Avengers: Endgame has surpassed Avatar to be […]

The Lion King (2019) REVIEW: The Questionable Necessity of a Spectacularly Realistic Remake

Walt Disney used to talk about “the plausible impossible” – the effect that hand-drawn animation could produce through the art of exaggeration. It could turn the body into a piece of elastic and use this flexibility to make an action sequence more exhilarating than it could ever be in real life. Among Disney’s recent trend […]