In general, Disney makes good films. And Moana is another in a line of pretty awesome movies that the company has been releasing recently. I feel like lately Disney has been breaking down its own cliches in an extremely on-the-nose, yet strangely refreshing way. First there was Frozen which essentially tore down its “Disney Princess”…
[Check out other episodes of Parton the Interruption here] By Drew Parton The first trailer for The Dark Tower dropped today. The saga of books written by Stephen King are some of my favorite novels, but they can be a little confusing. So, to anyone who doesn’t know what is going on in the trailer… I attempt to summarize…
In my last article, I mentioned that Sing was another attempt by Illumination Entertainment to be Pixar, and failing at it, and I still stand by that statement. This to me has been the studio’s major flaw in how it makes it’s animated films. Well, that and the ungodly amount of advertisements and commercialism…
I was on a couple of really long flights recently between Japan and the US, and having several hours worth of time to kill I ended up watching three animated movies that had come out within the last year – Moana, Sing, and Storks. The first two movies had a wide viewership and based on…
[Check out other episodes of Parton the Interruption here] By Drew Parton I cannot quite describe how excited I was when I first heard that Marvel was doing a Defenders show- I was immediately giddy to see Iron Fist on screen. He is one of my most favorite superheroes, and after how great the previous Netflix marvel…
In the early 1990s two popular animated shows came out that were created by Tom Ruegger, “presented by” Steven Spielberg, had some of the same voice actors*, and which tried to bring back the same style of slapstick comedy that classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons were famous for. These two shows were Tiny…
[Check out other episodes of Parton the Interruption here] By Drew Parton With the recently announced Just Cause movie starring Jason Momoa, it’s time to reflect on video game movies. Now, here’s a problem- video game movies suck. And movie video games suck. And I think that it might be because they keep trying to adapt the wrong…
