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Toy Story: “The Boy Is Mine”

April 18, 2020by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

I’m still not entirely sure if editing videos will become a second avocation for me, much less replace this first one. But a few days ago, this idea came to […]

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An Enterprise of Great Pitch and Moment: My 10 Favorite Hamlet Movies

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Probably the main reason that Hamlet has been such a popular subject for cinema from its very beginning — besides representing a grasp for artistic legitimacy in those early days, and […]

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“This Makes No Sense, and So Do I” — A Review of the Goofy and Daffy Duck Films

April 23, 2019by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

The first thing that must be acknowledged is that these figures are not mere mortals, and would in fact inspire a mix of awe and terror if they were encountered […]

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Announcing My 2019 Movie Retrospective: Goofy vs. Daffy

December 7, 2018by Paul Boyne 4 Comments

They’re a couple of also-rans in the icon department, still going strong after eighty years but never getting fully out of the shadows of their studios’ mascots. For one of […]

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Double Feature: The Brave Little Toaster and Toy Story 3

June 22, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

During his first stint with Disney, John Lasseter pitched an adaptation of the Thomas M. Disch children’s story The Brave Little Toaster. Computer technology was a wide-open frontier in the early […]

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Double Feature: Bambi and Jungle Book

May 18, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Something that’s easy to take for granted if you grow up with Disney’s animated version of The Jungle Book is the incredible biodiversity that’s depicted. The central region of India that […]

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Announcing My 2018 Movie Retrospective: Baby Paul’s First Weekend

November 24, 2017by Paul Boyne 3 Comments

Today is my thirtieth birthday. I consider myself something of a late bloomer when it comes to dedicated movie-watching; I’ve always liked cinema, but only in the past eight or […]

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“Everybody Was Making the Same Movie” — The Inspired Collaboration of Edward Scissorhands

April 28, 2017by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

It’s very tempting to approach Edward Scissorhands as an autobiographical piece of work, the inimitable vision of Tim Burton. As a child, I first began to recognize the authorship of a […]

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Oscar 2017

January 24, 2017by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

I wasn’t paying much attention this year, to be honest. Real life had a way of directing my gaze to what are admittedly more pressing concerns than who gets Oscar […]

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Uh … 3 ½? — Mulan

November 11, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

The Introduction I caught up with this late Disney Renaissance film at some point during the mid-2000s, though I had been very familiar with the two pop singles it spawned […]

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