The Review at the End of the Universe
November and December brought with it a new round of news announcements so Kneel Before Pod puts together a team to discuss them. We cover Star Wars, Disney’s War on originality and who might make a good friend for Tom Holland. From all of us at Kneel Before Blog and Kneel Before Pod we wish…
Disney bring us another Hero’s Journey with Ron Clements and Don Hall’s Moana; the story of a young girl who heads out to sea to solve the problem of dying food on her island. The titular Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) is the daughter of the chief and the early scenes are focused on her understanding what…
David Lowery brings the Disney classic Pete’s Dragon to a new generation in this modern re-imagining that blazes it’s own trail. I have very little memory for the original Pete’s Dragon but I do know that I have seen it at some point. For me it’s one of those mainstays that doesn’t really stick in…
Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Jared Bush’ Zootopia -or Zootropolis if you’re in the UK- follows plucky idealistic young Rabbit Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) as she tries to be taken seriously in a world that constantly underestimates her. Zootopia/Zootropolis is a more complicated film than it seems on the surface. From the beginning it looks like…
Peter Sohn’s The Good Dinosaur marks Pixar’s second film release of 2015 and delivers a very different experience from the earlier effort, Inside Out. The premise here is that the dinosaurs were never wiped out by a meteor and continued to evolve after that. Our introduction to the story shows an Apatosaurus making use of…
Star Wars #1 The monolithic Disney having recently acquired both Marvel and Star Wars presents an opportunity for Marvel and their team of talented writers to turn their attention to a long time ago in a Galaxy far away. Celebrated writer Jason Aaron tackles the Star Wars universe for the first time to give us…
Disney and Marvel spawn their first animated feature in the form of Big Hero 6. It’s a Marvel Comics property that I knew absolutely nothing about going in so that’s a new one on me. Upon further research it’s clear that the comic is a really obscure one and the adaptation appears to be so…
