Sam Lawrence takes a look at how Disney CEO Bob Iger took Disney to the top of the world and what his resignation means, for both the company and Hollywood, moving forward.
REVIEW: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
After much excitement and anticipation, The Rise of Skywalker has arrived in cinemas, concluding the 42 year old Skywalker Saga. We pick up one year after the events of The Last Jedi, where the Resistance […]
Frozen 2 Takes Us Into the Unknown.
When it was announced that 2013’s Frozen was getting a sequel, the main question on everyone’s lips was ‘how are they going to follow the first film?’. It was a cultural phenomenon, it earned over […]
Review: Maleficent 2
“Well well…” – let’s talk Disney. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, or Maleficent 2, hit UK cinemas on Friday 18th October, 5 years after the eponymous first film was released. Despite reportedly ‘bombing’ in US box […]
Disney completes acquisition of 21st Century Fox in $71.3 billion deal
At two minutes past midnight on Wednesday 21st March, Disney officially completed the acquisition of 21st Century Fox and its studios for $71.3 billion. Initially, Disney had offered $52 billion, but due to competition from […]
A Whole New Cast?: Disney Accused of ‘Brown-Facing’ White Actors for Aladdin Remake
The original Disney production of Aladdin, released in 1992, was the first Disney film to be released which depicted characters that were not white. The film is based on a Middle Eastern folk story of […]
The Lion King 2019: Is Cashing In On Nostalgia Always A Bad Thing?
As the many fans of Disney’s The Lion King get ready for the 2019 release of the remake and relive the epic story that has moved so many, I am stepping in to question the […]
Ralph Breaks The Internet Is Sweet Without Being Saccharine
At first glance, ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ seems to be a brightly coloured, cleverly animated and tooth-achingly sweet story about two best friends that go on a rampant adventure around the internet. While it is […]
A Rival to Netflix?
The Gryphon discusses the implications of Disney and Warner Bros creating independent streaming services… Competition has been steadily increasing in the streaming services industry for the past few years. However, 2019 looks to be a […]
Problematic Damsels- Are tales of Knights in Shining Armour behind us?
Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. Snow White. These titles are just a few of the Disney classics which we are all to varying degrees familiar with. Fantastical tales that follow the same familiar trope: boy meets girl, […]
Disney Live-Action: Nostalgic or Uncreative?
It appears that Walt Disney Company has struck yet another goldmine: live-action adaptations of animated classics. This recent Disney trend has already produced several successes, including the likes of Cinderella (2015) and Beauty and the […]
We’ve still got Jafar to go: The queer-coding of Disney’s villains
Arts writer, Lecia Weatherby-Blythe, discusses the prominent problems of queer-coding in Disney. Everyone has probably experienced Queer-coding in the media without even realising they have; it has played a prominent role in some of our […]