Tag Archives: Mads Mikkelsen

Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) Review

ORPHAN. OUTSIDER. KING.   In 2019, Walt Disney Studios released The Lion King, a photorealistic animated remake of their beloved 1994 classic. Directed by Jon Favreau, the film featured an all-star voice cast, including Donald Glover, Seth Rogen, Billy Eichner, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, and James Earl Jones. It retold the iconic story of Simba, a young lion forced to

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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) Review

OF SECRETS, MAGIC, POLITICS, AND AN IMPERFECT ADVENTURE   In 2016, five years after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 concluded the “boy who lived” cinematic adventure saga of witches and wizards, J.K. Rowling returned to her magical “Wizarding World” for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a prequel / spin-off endeavor to the eight-part Potter films. The feature, which

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Doctor Strange Review

THE MCU GETS STRANGE (IN A GOOD WAY)   Think you’re the only superhero in the world? Mr. Stark, you’ve become part of a bigger universe. You just don’t know it yet” said Samuel L. Jackson’s character Nick Fury at the end of 2008’s Iron Man and sure enough he was right. Since then, the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) has

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