The Lion King

Live from our windowless studio in Downtown Brooklyn, it's the 11th Annual Blankies! Joe Reid joins us once again to give out golden Wattos to our favorite films, performances, and craftspeople of the year. Some of our picks are certainly part of the greater award season conversa ...  Show more

This week we’re in hygge mode, uncovering traumas in our generational home with the host of This Had Oscar Buzz, Joe Reid! One of the breakout Oscar films of the year is Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, a warm, realist Norwegian film about a difficult but brilliant director (St ...  Show more

Comic creator Adam Sward returns this week to first help us recall some of our favorite animated films in our Retro Roundtable. With Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Mary Poppins Returns getting all kinds of award buzz, it felt necessary to revisit the topic. We look at film ...  Show more

À l’occasion de la sortie du film MUFASA, qui raconte les aventures de Mufasa, avant les évènements du Roi Lion, nous recevons Tahar Rahim, Alban Ivanov, et Gwendal Marimoutou, qui sont les voix françaises de Mufasa, Pumbaa et Scar dans ce nouveau film Disney. On a parlé nosta ...

Website | Merch | Twitter We watched The Lion King (1994) and The Lion King (2019) to see how the remake holds up to the original. With a stellar voice cast, and a tragic history of previous Disney remakes, The Lion King has a lot of hype to live up to, while still having the opp ...  Show more

Director Barry Jenkins discusses his new film, Mufasa: The Lion King, with fellow Director Ben Affleck in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, he discusses employing the VFX team from the Avatar films to create the world, working with bo ...