In the 1998 movie Sliding Doors, a woman played by Gwyneth Paltrow narrowly makes it onto a train — and, in an alternate storyline that plays out parallel to the first, misses the train. The whole film goes back and forth between the two Paltrows (the one who caught that subway, and the one who didn’t) … Read more
Hollywood makes so many comic-book movies. Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, independents … sometimes it seems like that’s all they make anymore. That’s not true, of course, but it feels true. Comic-book movies are everywhere, ever present, as ubiquitous in multiplexes as ugly carpets and that delicious artificial butter that comes out of that metal spout next to the napkins and the straws. Superhero fatigue is ubiquitous … Read more
Disney has built a cottage industry taking their classic animated features and remaking them in live-action. They do it so often and with so much financial success, it makes you wonder … why hasn’t anyone tried to do the reverse? Sound ridiculous? Maybe it is. But it also sounded ridiculous when Disney decided to make The Lion King — a movie … Read more