"Hey kids! Welcome to Disneynature! It's a lot like regular nature, except we've added slo-mo, and also some anthropomorphic aspects to keep you ADHD tykes interested. 'Anthropomorphic' is derived from the Greek 'anthropos' — man — and 'morpho' — form. It means that we change the form of things so …
Earth, as seen from space.
"Hello, world; it's nice to meet you." Earth from space. Narrated by Jennifer Lawrence.
The Disney people, perhaps because their five-year recycling program causes them to lag behind the rising social consciousness and thus opens them to attack from assorted interest groups (Indians re Peter Pan, feminists re Cinderella), seem now, with their thirtieth feature-length cartoon, to spend as much time on Proper Attitudes …
The Disney people, perhaps because their five-year recycling program causes them to lag behind the rising social consciousness and thus opens them to attack from assorted interest groups (Indians re Peter Pan, feminists re Cinderella), seem now, with their thirtieth feature-length cartoon, to spend as much time on Proper Attitudes …
Screenwriter and first-time director Caroline Thompson's repayment of debt to one of her girlhood favorites, the Victorian perennial by Anna Sewell. It proceeds at a metronomic clip-clop pace, and there's very little narrative development: what little there is comes literally straight from the horse's mouth. ("It was cold and bright …
Possibly the best horse movie since National Velvet and without question the best Mickey Rooney showcase in a long, long time, but not quite as long a time as since National Velvet. Carroll Ballard, a Francis Coppola protégé, makes the story seem very tall, as though seen from a child's …
The story of the daring airplane exploits of the Blue Angels.
Disney's True-Life Adventure series has morphed into Disneynature and this is their latest documentary. PANDA ALERT: It looks so cute and sugary that I needed a shot of Insulin to make it through the trailer.
A beautifully filmed and cogent tribute to two women and their adopted animals. Birute Galdikas rescues orphaned orangutans in Borneo, and Daphne Sheldrick raises baby elephants in Kenya. The creatures, once weaned, are returned to the wild. In IMAX 3-D, the orphans are so vividly present they’re almost beyond adorable. …
In the context of a powder-puff parody of Thirties musicals, Ken Russell's harsh, unflattering, ghoulish lighting becomes interesting for its abrasive, corrosive effect. And Twiggy's movie debut is almost as notable as her publicity made claim -- delicate, halting, sweet, charming, and utterly unspoiled by the efforts of her director. …
Errol Morris ushers us into the world, or at least over its doorsill, of English cosmologist Stephen Hawking, stricken with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) in his early twenties, losing the use of his body and eventually his voice, and now getting around in a motorized wheelchair and communicating …
Pagan pietism, from the Disney animation studio, to do with a Northwest Indian lad who, in his anxiety to become a man, kills a bear and gets magically transformed into a bear himself, to see how the other half lives: blissed out on nature (the moose practice yoga) and communality …