Dumbo is a classic Tim Burton outsider tale

Tim Burton has specialized in movies about social misfits like Pee-Wee Herman and outsiders like Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood. Often those characters find family in a world of other misfits like they are. Dumbo was ripe for the Tim Burton treatment. Everyone remembers the original animated film about the flying element. That film also

Who plays Bruce Lee in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?

Quentin Tarantino dropped the trailer for his ninth movie yesterday with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Surprisingly, the trailer dealt little with the plot but had a large dose of Bruce Lee. So, who plays Bruce Lee in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood? The trailer lasted just under two minutes and Bruce Lee

Toy Story 4: Keanu Reeve’s character is Duke Caboom

The first full-length trailer for Toy Story 4 was released this morning and it introduced the emotional story that will be told in this fourth feature-length movie following the toys, Woody, Buzz Lightyear and their friends. But in the trailer, which was shared on Disney’s Pixar’s YouTube channel today, another character is introduced. The clip

Danny Elfman’s triumphant Dumbo theme started out as a sad song

Disney’s live-action re-imagining of Dumbo was directed by Tim Burton. You know what that means. The music had to be written by Danny Elfman. When Dumbo flies, Elfman’s score becomes triumphant. That’s now how he wrote it though. The Dumbo theme is based on a very sad song for a sad moment in the film.

Wonder Park movie review: The great grief coaster

I love stories where characters save their own imagination. In movies this probably goes back to The Wizard of Oz, in literature at least Alice in Wonderland, the namesake of Wonder Park. Perhaps it’s because these stories tell is it’s important to tell stories. That’s validating considering I’ve devoted my life to the telling of

Captain Marvel: Is the new film about relational abuse and gaslighting?

Warning: Major spoilers for Captain Marvel will follow below. After much vitriol online by trolls and angry anonymous online users, Captain Marvel went on to defy the odds and became a smash-hit at the box-office. The irony of it all is that the film comments on the behavior of abuse and bullying in more ways

Brie Larson and Lashana Lynch are the heart of Captain Marvel

Captain Marvel is the first Marvel superhero to get her own movie, after team-up movies featuring Black Widow, Scarlett Witch and The Wasp. Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) is not alone though. Maria Rambeau (Lashana Lynch) has her back. Carol and Maria were pilots in the Air Force together. We see flashes of their military career