Director Abigail Disney is out to push your buttons, make you think, and openly challenge the things that you believe to be true about guns, violence, and peace. Since she?engaged fully in charitable work in her thirties, she has had a love for people often dismissed...
My second favorite new show,?Blindspot?has settled down into an episodic rhythm where just enough of the mythos is teased out, but the bulk of the hour is spent solving an individual conundrum. Here, Weller and Shaw/Doe tackle a ridiculous conspiracy to unleash...
For the first time this season, Gotham?left me bored although the romantic fans of the show will probably be intrigued. Certainly, not every episode can be as exciting and groundbreaking as we'd like it to be, but this one felt like little was actually accomplished. A...
My favorite new show this year is determined to keep us guessing. Various aspects about the latest FBI recruits are teased out from episode to episode, with clues interspersed in between the two timelines that we follow week in and week out. In the present, Alex...
It was predetermined that I would see?Pan, regardless of what the critics had to say. [Spoiler alert:?they've said plenty, and none of it good!] Maybe it was as a kid when I fell in love with?Walt Disney's interpretations of?Robin Hood?and?Peter Pan, the mischievous,...
An Introduction Epic phrases in movies are nothing new. Classic characters breed classic lines, from Darth Vader?s ?I am your father? to Enigo Montoya?s ?My name is Enigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.? Many of the lines remind us of our identification...
Anytime you watch a?Brad Bird (The Incredibles,?Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) or?Damon Lindelof (Lost, The?Leftovers) vehicle, you know that you're in for a wild ride of the imagination. Given that they were handed the keys by Walt Disney Pictures for...
Malcolm (Shameik Moore), Jib (Tony Revolori), and Diggy (Kiersey Clemons) are three geeks trying to survive life in the dark world of "The Bottoms" in Inglewood, California. Malcolm is our likable star, longing to make it out of Inglewood to the Ivy-lined walls of...
By now, if you haven't seen either?the 1992 Walt Disney animated feature film, the Broadway musical, or the children's repertoire performance of Aladdin, you've probably been living in the Cave of Wonders. The truth is that this adaptation of?One Hundred and One...