For the bulk of their movies, Pixar has relied on the idea of shared cultural experiences to base their movies on. We all know the heartbreak of losing a favorite toy (all three Toy Story films) or the desire for that one great adventure (Up) or have curiosity about the monsters we all know are lurking in the closets (Monsters Inc.). In fact, it was a departure from that approach to storytelling that... 

I’d like to piss everyone off for a moment and ask what I consider to be a simple question: Why does Disney hates mothers? Think about every possible Disney movie you’ve ever seen, and I’m only referring to the mainstream full-feature length movies starting with 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (evil, wicked stepmother) all the way to 2010’s Tangled (evil, wicked witch who pretends... 

Proving that episode #250 is no big deal, Margaret sits out this week, despite the fact that we haven’t had a show in two weeks. No big deal, right? Instead, Rafe and Tim talk about Disney’s Tangled, Fox’s Chronicles of Narnia tailspin, some of our favorite television shows, the rumor of writers being fired from The Walking Dead, the trailers for Thor and Transformers: Dark of the... 

Last weekend was a desperate fight for the family dollar at the box office, between part one of the last chapter of the boy-wizard saga, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and Disney’s latest animated picture, Tangled. The story of the boy wizard wound up on top, even in its second week, which is probably a bit of a concern for Walt Disney Studios. They had a lot riding on Tangled, and although...