6 posts tagged ‘chris pine’
The week in entertainment news: How about those Golden Globes, huh?
AV Club,
Sometimes an awards show moment can change the course of history—at least, if you’re Taylor Swift. The mind immediately goes to the 2009 VMAs, an event that has haunted both Swift and Kanye West’s careers for more than a decade. Most recently, there was the cringeworthy Jo Koy quip about the cameras cutting less… Read more...
Star Trek races to announce it's getting a new movie too, okay?
Although there’s been a fair amount of ink spilled, over the last few years, about the ways Disney’s Star Wars movie franchise kind of fell off a cliff in the immediate aftermath of The Rise Of Skywalker, it’s worth remember that Star Trek has had it a hell of a lot worse. Although Trek’s television fortunes are doing… Read more...
Year-end roundtable: On Disney's 100th anniversary, what succeeded?
In a series of special year-end roundtable discussions, The A.V. Club looks back at the stories that made the biggest impact on pop culture in 2023. Read more...
The O.C. could have starred Chris Pine and Olivia Wilde, and more revelations
The O.C. celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, and to commemorate you can now read television critic Alan Sepinwall’s new book on the iconic teen drama, Welcome To The O.C.: The Oral History. The show became a juggernaut because of the core cast, which included Mischa Barton, Ben McKenzie, Adam Brody, and Rachel… Read more...
Wish review: This kingdom really needs some magic
It was probably inevitable that Marvel’s world-building virus would infect its Disney host. But it’s still startling to see how urgently the new Disney animated fairy tale Wish attempts to retcon 86 years of disparate animated features into something like a shared universe—one where Peter Pan, Thumper, and Pinocchio… Read more...
Disney's Wish Illuminates a Century of Magical Animated History
Gizmodo,
Disney celebrates its legacy in Wish—a movie filled with the company’s own mythology that also has bold allegorical similitudes to its recent history, all weaved into a powerful fairytale. Read more...