Posts Tagged ‘disney’
Wreck-It Ralph: Pixel Sticks
A video-game bad guy’s crisis brings this charming Disney comedy to life.KRISTIAN LIN
We’ve seen much of Disney’s new animated film, Wreck-It Ralph, before. Movies like Despicable Me and Megamind have already spun traditional stories by adopting the bad guys’ point of view. The Toy Story series mined the s...
Timothy Green: Autumn Leaves
A kid grows from a garden in this strange, uneven fable.KRISTIAN LIN
The word “odd” is entirely appropriate in the title of The Odd Life of Timothy Green. This family-oriented movie has the bad luck to come to us just one week after Ruby Sparks, another magic-realist fable about a person who...
Disney Finds Sonny
For his first feature, Fort Worth’s Andrew Disney conjures up “slacker noir.”JIMMY FOWLER
There are a lot of ways you could describe Searching for Sonny, the debut feature from writer-director and Fort Worth native Andrew Disney. The movie concerns a chronic underachiever who gets pulled into a series of bizarre eve...
Visionary Awards: Art Rulz
Michelle Brandley, Andrew Disney, and Micah Yarborough were the guests of honor at our recent Visionary Awards party.ANTHONY MARIANI
Last Thursday evening at Artspace 111, we threw a party. About 200 people showed up, which isn’t bad, considering that Artspace 111, while spacious and airy, doesn’t have a large spatial footprint. The people who happily pi...
Something Intangible Shines
Circle Theatre’s current production looks back on Walt Disney’s Fantasia.JIMMY FOWLER
The story of the brilliant artist as raging egomaniac is an appealing one, probably because it allows us to see our worst character traits as somehow contributing to something creative in the world. Playwright Bruce Graham appa...
Amphibian Production
KRISTIAN LINTraditional hand-drawn animation has been out of fashion for much of this decade. Most of Hollywood followed Pixar’s lead years ago and went to computers for their animated family movies. Now the novelty value of that has...
Chasing Amy
This cracked Disney fantasia and its star will leave you feeling Enchanted.Kristian Lin
Amy Adams has kicked around Hollywood for a decade, bagged an Oscar nomination, and acted in probably more than one movie you’ve seen.
Re-Imagineering
SAMUEL HUDSONTheir buildings say it all. Fort Worth’s three art museums — the Kimbell, the Carter, and the Modern — are gifts to the city from the rich and powerful. Each museum is the work of a world-famous architect — Louis Kahn, ...