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Encanto: Directed by Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Charise Castro Smith. With Stephanie Beatriz, MarÃa Cecilia Botero, John Leguizamo, Mauro Castillo. A young Colombian girl has to face the frustration of being the only member of her family without magical powers. This movie was not for me, which is just fine, apparently other people are super enjoying it! For me it was a confusing mess and an odd misstep from modern Disney, the story was muddled, the songs confusing, and the voice work not all that impressive. I listened to the first song in the movie and realized I would have...
The Imagineering Story: With Tom Morris, Kevin Rafferty, Angela Bassett, Matt Fowler. The inside look into the Walt Disney Imagineering company. An extremely indepth look at the history of the WED Team, later renamed to the Disney Imagineering Team. It’s nearly pure D+ propaganda, but has a ton of interesting behind the scenes content that even the casual Disney fan can appreciate. Buy On Amazon!
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Directed by Richard Fleischer. With Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre. A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo. A sea monster is rampaging around the south seas and the US government asks a French scientist and his apprentice to check the situation out and report back. Not so much that they believe that there’s dragons eating ships, but that ships are going missing and someone needs to figure out what’s going on. They learn though that it’s not sea monster,...
Why does a toy make me so happy at 30?
