Even by Disney’s own standards, ‘Wish’ is often too generic and predictable. For a film billed as a celebration of Disney’s centennial and a love letter to its lore, it only feels a fraction as special as it should.
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Since it was first announced, Disney’s live-action The Little Mermaid has been swimming against a seemingly impossible current. Yet this live action remake is a massive success as it tastefully recontextualizes the original story, while delivering a bold new vision.
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Sure, there is a talking cricket and a compendium of other colorful characters, but Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is totally - and tonally - different from any of the other adaptations, which is possibly why it is one of the best films of the year.
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The filmmakers who made Lyle, Lyle Crocodile embrace all the silliness of the original story, without any shame or lack of conviction. Whatever you say about the film, you cannot deny that the passion is present.
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There is truly something special about experiencing the magic of filmmaking that only Steven Spielberg can create. For many of us, Spielberg crafted our childhoods, crafting characters and worlds that would shape the fabric of every modern moviegoer. In remaking an all-time classic in ‘West Side Story’, Spielberg is able to capture what makes him so special and deliver something remarkable all in the process.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda offers his directorial debut with ‘tick, tick…BOOM!’ which is an electrifying film encouraging all of us to ask ourselves: what do we do with our time that we have?
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While the immense Broadway success of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’, may deceive viewers, look past the emotional ballads and the ‘relatable’ high school blues and you’ll find that the show is actually incredibly tone deaf and wildly misguided. Dear Evan Hansen may be the worst stage-to-screen musical adaptations to date.
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Releasing on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the tragic losses during 9/11, AppleTV+ debuts ‘Come From Away’, the professional recording of the Broadway musical of the same name. The show is based on the true story of 38 planes that were forced into an emergency landing in the town of Gander, Newfoundland, Canada, as the events of 9/11 were unfolding in real time.
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