Kassie Duke

Dec 15, 2024 | cbr.com | Kassie Duke

It's no secret that it's tough to create a memorable Christmas movie that sticks with audiences for years to come. Many are produced each year, but few become classics that families will watch together time and time again. In 1994, Disney produced an off-beat Christmas movie starring comedian Tim Allen titled The Santa Clause. At the top of his game in the mid-1990s with a hit TV show, Allen seemed like somewhat of an unconventional choice to play Santa Claus.

Dec 2, 2024 | cbr.com | Kassie Duke

The Lord of the Rings Published 6 minutes ago Sign in to your CBR account Long before J.R.R. Tolkien published The Lord of the Rings in the 1950s and The Hobbit in the 1930s, the author had an academic career that heavily influenced the writing of his epic fantasy. As a student and then professor of literature, Tolkien would have been exposed to Anglo-Saxon poems like Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While it falls in and out of popular culture, Beowulf is fairly well-known in...

Dec 2, 2024 | cbr.com | Kassie Duke

Moana 2 Published 13 minutes ago Sign in to your CBR account The following contains spoilers for Moana 2, now in theaters. The end of Disney's Moana 2 features its heroine stepping into a new era of her personal journey. The film is a sequel to 2016's Moana and features all-new songs by a crack songwriting team. Like many Disney leading ladies, Moana learns and grows throughout the course of her first film and discovers fresh challenges as her story continues in the second. Originally...

Nov 28, 2024 | cbr.com | Kassie Duke

At first glance, it might not seem like Disney'sLilo & Stitch (2002) has much in common with DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon (2010). The two films were made by competing animation studios. One is traditional, hand-drawn animation, while the other is CGI. The movies couldn't have two more different protagonists in Lilo and Hiccup. And the premise of an alien crash-landing in modern day Hawaii doesn't exactly parallel a world where ancient Vikings slay dragons.

Nov 25, 2024 | cbr.com | Kassie Duke

moana Published 8 minutes ago Sign in to your CBR account Disney is known for its fairy-tale-based films, and often, these films involve princesses and dynamic heroines. While the studio started out telling traditional tales based on classic stories, over the years, it has branched out to incorporate more culturally representative storytelling. 2016's Moana took inspiration from Polynesian myths and set its action in the ancient island nations of Polynesia. The film featured a story by a team...