Seeing and Believing 274 | Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and Disney+’s The Mandalorian
Wade is joined by Steve Norton of ScreenFish.net to discuss Nomadland, the new film from Chloé Zhao, and The Mandalorian Season 2.

Wade is joined by Steve Norton of ScreenFish.net to discuss Nomadland, the new film from Chloé Zhao, and The Mandalorian Season 2.

This episode did for Boba Fett what Rogue One did for Darth Vader.

And so it came to pass that in one fell swoop, the showrunners connected The Mandalorian to the worst ideas of the prequel and sequel trilogies.

Even if your inward-facing, self-replicating church—or Mandalorian group, for that matter—never becomes a cult, in my experience, it can (and does) start to get weird.

Wade and Kevin take the plunge on the Disney+ exclusive Mulan and Brick, Rian Johnson’s 2006 film noire style debut.

Alexander is redeemed, not because he deserves it, but because Eliza grants redemption to him.

There’s an insatiable appetite behind this ever-increasing desire for deeper escape and stories that never end.

Some remakes of classic tales may reflect changed cultural mores, but it is a fallacy to believe we are morally evolving with each passing decade.

Tune in this week to hear our interview with authors Kutter Callaway and Craig Detweiler and a review of Tim Burton’s live-action remake of Dumbo.

Wade and Kevin review a pair of movies in which families figure prominently: Pixar’s ‘CoCo’, and Martin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’

The contemporary stereotype of tradition — which Moana so beautifully subverts — is that it’s static and deadening.

Life, Animated allows us to see how a family loves each other, though they were required to take a journey they hadn’t been expecting.

Traveling to Disney World looks more and more like a religious pilgrimage than many would care to admit.

Wade and Kevin snap out of their post-Thanksgiving food lethargy to discuss two major films this week: Disney’s ‘Moana’ and Jeff Nichols’ ‘Loving’.

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is a fairy tale that self-consciously meditates on the role fairy tales play in the development of character.

In ‘The Huntsman: Winter’s War’, love conquers all and never fails.
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