At two minutes past midnight on Wednesday 21st March, Disney officially completed the acquisition of 21st Century Fox and its studios for $71.3 billion. Initially, Disney had offered $52 billion, but due to competition from […]
A Whole New Cast?: Disney Accused of ‘Brown-Facing’ White Actors for Aladdin Remake
The original Disney production of Aladdin, released in 1992, was the first Disney film to be released which depicted characters that were not white. The film is based on a Middle Eastern folk story of […]
The Lion King 2019: Is Cashing In On Nostalgia Always A Bad Thing?
As the many fans of Disney’s The Lion King get ready for the 2019 release of the remake and relive the epic story that has moved so many, I am stepping in to question the […]
Ralph Breaks The Internet Is Sweet Without Being Saccharine
At first glance, ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ seems to be a brightly coloured, cleverly animated and tooth-achingly sweet story about two best friends that go on a rampant adventure around the internet. While it is […]
A Rival to Netflix?
The Gryphon discusses the implications of Disney and Warner Bros creating independent streaming services… Competition has been steadily increasing in the streaming services industry for the past few years. However, 2019 looks to be a […]
Problematic Damsels- Are tales of Knights in Shining Armour behind us?
Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. Snow White. These titles are just a few of the Disney classics which we are all to varying degrees familiar with. Fantastical tales that follow the same familiar trope: boy meets girl, […]
Disney Live-Action: Nostalgic or Uncreative?
It appears that Walt Disney Company has struck yet another goldmine: live-action adaptations of animated classics. This recent Disney trend has already produced several successes, including the likes of Cinderella (2015) and Beauty and the […]
We’ve still got Jafar to go: The queer-coding of Disney’s villains
Arts writer, Lecia Weatherby-Blythe, discusses the prominent problems of queer-coding in Disney. Everyone has probably experienced Queer-coding in the media without even realising they have; it has played a prominent role in some of our […]
Is Disney creating a LGBTQ princess?
Disney. This word is practically synonymous with your-entire-childhood. So, what about Disney princesses? Who springs to mind? Maybe it’s Snow White, the first Disney princess to be in a full-feature animated film; or Sleeping Beauty, […]
Coco: a film that teaches tradition
If music be the food of love, Coco is a delightful three course dinner. In Pixar’s newest film Coco you are invited to the Land of the Dead where 12 year old Miguel Gonzales is […]
Can Coco add some colour to Pixar’s whitewashed palette?
Martha Sanders discusses Pixar’s step away from monsters and robots and much needed steps towards diverse representation in their films. Although it is commonplace to see articles criticising Disney films for cultural misrepresentation, whitewashing and […]
Is the film industry diverting diversity?
From personal experience, Aneeka Hussain takes a look at the bigger picture of minority representation in film. It’s no secret that the film industry is ride with old, white male actors. Actors who have become […]