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Deadpool & Wolverine: Marvel Actioner Brings Wolvie Home

Deadpool & Wolverine: Marvel Actioner Brings Wolvie Home

By John Kirk

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 24, 2024Deadpool & Wolverine, Disney, Shawn Levy, Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Superheroes, Action, Adventure, Marvel Cinematic UniverseComment

Tales of the Jedi: Bite-Sized Back Stories Satisfy More Than You’d Expect

Tales of the Jedi: Bite-Sized Back Stories Satisfy More Than You’d Expect

By John Kirk

ReviewJim SlotekOctober 26, 2022Star Wars, Tales of the Jedi, Dave Filoni, Ashley Eckstein, Liam Neeson, Ian McDiarmid, Clancy Brown, Phil Lamarr, James Arnold Taylor, Disney, Animation, prequelsComment

Turning Red: Disney’s Toronto-Set Coming-of-Age Story Sweet and Upbeat

Turning Red: Disney’s Toronto-Set Coming-of-Age Story Sweet and Upbeat

By Kim Hughes

ReviewJim SlotekMarch 10, 2022Disney, Pixar, Animated features, Turning Red, Domee Shi, Julia Cho, Rosalie Chiang, Sandra OhComment

Encanto: Dazzling Disney Feature Spotlights Home, Family, and the Joys of Being a Misfit

Encanto: Dazzling Disney Feature Spotlights Home, Family, and the Joys of Being a Misfit

By Kim Hughes

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 21, 2021Encanto, Disney, Animation, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Byron Howard, Jared Bush, Charise Castro Smith, Stephanie Beatriz, María Cecilia Botero, Angie Cepeda, Wilmer Valderrama, John Leguizamo, Colombia, LatinoComment

Vivo: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Animated Kid-fest is Sparkly, Crafted… But Just Kind of OK

Vivo: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Animated Kid-fest is Sparkly, Crafted… But Just Kind of OK

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 3, 2021Vivo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gloria Estefan, Children's films, Kids, Animation, Netflix, Alex Lacamoire, Cuban, Buena Vista Social Club, DisneyComment

TIFF Interview, Red Penguins: The story of the unsuccessful U.S. attempt to buy the Red Army hockey team

TIFF Interview, Red Penguins: The story of the unsuccessful U.S. attempt to buy the Red Army hockey team

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 11, 2019Gabe Polsky, Red Army, Red Penguins, Steve Warshaw, Howard Baldwin, Russian hockey, The fall of the Soviet Union, Viktor Tikhonov, Valery Gushin, Disney, Russian mafia, New Cold War, Dynamo, Spartak, Bolshoi BalletComment

The Lion King: Latest Disney CGI Makeover of Classic Title Lacks Emotional Heft

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJuly 17, 2019The Lion King, Disney, Jon Favreau, Beyonce, John Oliver, Donald Glover, James Earl Jones, Seth Rogen, Realist Disney remakes, Live-action, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Billy Eichner, The Jungle BookComment

PODCAST! Ep. 23: Avatar and Star Wars and Avatar and Star Wars (kill me now)

PODCAST! Ep. 22: Post-Avengers: Endgame, sobbing, clobbering spoiler-mongers and cheering Disney's windfall

By Jim Slotek, Liam Lacey, Karen Gordon, Bonnie Laufer

PodcastJim SlotekMay 2, 2019Movie podcasts, Avengers: Endgame, Spoilers, Disney, UglyDolls, Red Joan, The Intruder, Randy Quaid, Dennis Quaid, Stalker thrillersComment

Dumbo: Tim Burton’s Gorgeous, Treacly Live-Action Reboot Subtle as a Stampede

By Kim Hughes

ReviewMarch 26, 2019Dumbo, Disney, Tim Burton, Danny DeVito, Michael Keaton, Eva Green, Colin Farrell, Live-action, Fable, Children's films, ElephantsComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Danny DeVito on Dumbo, Tim Burton and a post-Batman reunion with Michael Keaton

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekMarch 25, 2019Dumbo, Tim Burton, Danny DeVito, Mars Attacks!, Big Fish, Batman Returns, The Penguin, Ringmaster, Disney, Arthur Miller, The Price, Mark Ruffalo, Johnny Dangerously, Taxi, Matilda, It's Always Sunny In PhiladelphiaComment

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms: A Pretty Mess and a Mouse Monster

By Liam Lacey

Oh Bother!: Disney's Christopher Robin in limbo between dewy-eyed innocence-lost and wannabe family fare

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 2, 2018Tags Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, A.A. Milne, Jim Cummings, Paul Winchell, Tigger, Disney, Ewan McGregor, Revisiting childhood, Hundred Acre Wood, Marc Forster

Original-Cin Q&A: Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh (and Tigger too!)

Jim Cummings (Christopher Robin)

InterviewJim SlotekJuly 30, 2018Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, A.A. Milne, Jim Cummings, Paul Winchell, Tigger, Disney, Ewan McGregor, Revisiting childhood, Hundred Acre Wood, Marc Forster

A Wrinkle In Time: Love and Oprah's angels empower all in this magical mystery tour

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekMarch 9, 2018Young adult novels, Fantasy, Oprah Winfey, Mindy Khaling, Diversity, Ava Duvernay, Madeleine L'Engle, Disney

Coco: Mexican Realism Infuses Animated Family Pic with Uncommon Soul

By Kim Hughes

ReviewNovember 21, 2017Disney, Pixar, Animated, Children's films, Mexican