The fall movie season, with its acclaimed film festival favorites and prestige Oscar candidates, is looking like a nice alternative to 2016's Bummer Summer. To misquote a classic Christopher Walken SNL sketch, if the past movie summer was a cowbell, the fall season of cinema is the aspirin. Here's the best of the lot that isn't a sequel, prequel, CGI cartoon, remake, or comic … [Read more...] about Mauitime 2016 Fall Movie Preview
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PETE’S DRAGON New Movie Review
The original 1977 Pete's Dragon is one of those Disney movies I must have watched every week for most of my early grade school years. I suspect our videocassette copy must have snapped apart out of sheer exhaustion. Upon revisiting the film recently, I was embarrassed by my childhood adoration of it. While the Helen Reddy/Mickey Rooney musical has charming animation, some nice … [Read more...] about PETE’S DRAGON New Movie Review
DrewToonz: Disney asks for a bigger boat in Florida
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How Maui Embraces Its Inner Nerd
The term “nerd” used to be a cruel, judgmental way of dismissing someone who, in spite of their intelligence, had poor social skills. The word was a means of condemning smart kids with unique, blossoming tastes and deeming them fatally un-cool. Now, with Mark Zuckerberg at the helm of Facebook, Steve Jobs’ inventions in seemingly every American home and guys like J.J. Abrams … [Read more...] about How Maui Embraces Its Inner Nerd
ZOOTOPIA New Movie Review
Before I write about Disney's new CGI animated comedy, let me briefly address a film that came out 30 years ago. In 1986, the first official Marvel comic book movie adaptation was Howard The Duck, an infamous, George Lucas-produced mega-bomb. It was, at the time, the most expensive film ever made and a giant step back for movies based on comic books (as well as talking ducks … [Read more...] about ZOOTOPIA New Movie Review