Trash & Treasures: The Sweatbox
How is it that every time Disney tries to bury something it thinks will hurt its reputation, it manages to make itself look 10000x worse in the process?
Trash & Treasures – Waking Sleeping Beauty
The UNTOLD, UNCUT story of Disney’s struggles during their so-called Dark Age….and if you believe that, I’ve got some waterfront property in Kansas you might be interested in.
Trash & Treasures – The Rescuers Down Under
Wow, 90s kids sure like this movie, huh?
Trash & Treasures: Disney’s Oliver & Company
1980s New York: a perfect place to set Charles Dickens’ story about a sad secretly high class boy (you can tell by how kind and goodlooking he is) is saved from being grouped with Those Dirty, Wicked Poors. Really though, have you read Oliver Twist lately? That book […]
Trash & Treasures: Disney’s The Black Cauldron
Remember when Cars 2 came out, and everyone was like “PIXAR HAS HIT BOTTOM, WE NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD HAPPEN?” This is that but for Disney.
Trash and Treasures: The Great Mouse Detective
Who would’ve thought a bunch of 90s kids would have so many feelings about detective mice? Not Disney, that’s for sure. RELEASE THE MERCH. WE KNOW YOU HAVE IT.
Vrai’s Favorite Things: Movies (20 to 16)
Longtime readers will know that anniversary month means lists. And while last year’s anime rundown involved a certain amount of long deliberation, settling on a film list for this go round ended up being a ticket to the Village of Excruciation. Perhaps it’s the shorter time investment, and […]
Five Forgotten Gems: Animated Film Edition
Long before videogames took on the mantle as ‘most frequently dismissed potential art form,’ the field of animation had been scraping for even the smallest bits of esteem from the cultural majority. Yes, of course animation is ‘kid’s stuff,’ not worthy of the attention of the real moviegoing […]
How to Be an English Major: Revisiting Frozen, Meaning, and the Death of the Author
A few weeks ago I wrote an essay about the new Disney movie Frozen. A few people read it, and then a few more, and then it exploded and became the most read post on this blog by a factor of ten (a fact found using English Major […]
Family Won’t Let You Fall – Frozen and Queer Storytelling
The conspiracy theory bits of my brain wonder if Disney’s purchase of Marvel was part of some David Xanatos-like plan to save a few bucks. Lord knows the Frozen team owes Stan Lee a check. Strange, fantastic elemental powers that get stronger with age/puberty and cause the owner […]
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