**WordPress Excerpt (200+ words):** Disney's D23 Entertainment Showcase is just around the corner, and after a rollercoaster few years at the box office, Walt Disney Studios has plenty to prove. With recent successes like *Lilo & Stitch* and *Freakier Friday* balancing out disappointments
Disney’s live-action Tangled is officially moving forward, and new set photos from Spain have given fans their first look at Teagan Croft as Rapunzel and Milo Manheim as Flynn Rider. The upcoming remake of the beloved 2010 animated classic is currently filming, with production photos offering a
While this weekend's The Running Man isn't exactly a remake of the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie of the same name, most moviegoers will head into it thinking it is. The film is a more faithful adaptation of the 1982 Stephen King novel and is certainly its own beast compared to the more
During a time when true movie stars are a dime a dozen, Glen Powell has cemented himself as being more than worthy to take up that mantle. Since blowing up in a big way in Top Gun: Maverick, Powell's decisions have been strategic in the sense that he wants the audience to have a good time at the
For many Mario fans and even Nintendo fans in general, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is the best Paper Mario game in the series. It's no surprise. Paper Mario was one of the best Nintendo games period, not least of which is because it was basically a successor to Super Mario RPG. All this
“When there is no more room in hell… The remakes will walk the Earth”. Here we go again with an original vs its remake. Today we have Dawn of the Dead, the second of Romero’s Dead series. Zack Snyder directed the remake and James Gunn, yes that James Gunn, wrote the screenplay. There is a
Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl returned for The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob's Halloween House Party, delivering a double feature built around two very different approaches to Halloween horror. This time, the legendary horror host paired Body Bags (1993) with WNUF Halloween Special (2013),
George Carlin told perhaps the greatest joke on football ever told in his 10/11/1975 SNL monologue, where he contrasted the pastoral nature of baseball with the warlike sport of football. To quote one segment among many, “In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field
The term "crowd pleasing" or "crowd pleaser" has found itself layered with some derogatory undertones among critic circles. Broad appeal seems immediately discounted, as if populist filmmaking is somehow lesser than when compared to auteurs and hidden indie gems. I've always maintained that there
