A Country Boy Can Survive
on a multi-million dollar multimedia and merchandising agreement. A bit of faux-populism is more valuable than any number of duck calls.
Bilbo of the Nine Hours
The Desolation of Smaug is as overstuffed and self-indulgent as its title. But that’s kind of the point of the whole thing.
Wicked Cold
Frozen is ridiculously charming and makes me optimistic about a resurgence in Disney Feature Animation
What Nintendon’t
Overcome the overwhelming sense of futility in video games with this one weird trick
One In a Million
Device 6 is what I imagine all the books on The Island in The Prisoner were like. (In other words: it’s amazing).
Gorilla Filmmaking
On Escape from Tomorrow, how Disney works, and why more people seriously need to read David Foster Wallace already.
