Back to the Disney Renaissance, and for an accidentally long podcast. We talk about how Josh is this close to being Lord Greystoke, Tim’s need to make everything he loves relate to Absalom, Absalom!, and most importantly, we join the rest of the Internet in asking if a hot dog is a sandwich. Come on… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 6: Autopsy-Turvy (Disney Renaissance, Part 2)
Baumann and Burch welcomes its first guest of the podcast. Tim’s former ex-roommate Josh comes onto the podcast to talk with us about the Disney Renaissance. Listen for what Greek myth would adapt nicely to Disney animation, deciding if Aladdin has more in common with Game of Thrones or the First Persian Gulf War, and… Read More Baumann and Burch Podcast #5 – Edward’s Angels (Disney Renaissance, Part 1)
Dir. Pete Docter. Starring Amy Poehler, Kaitlyn Dias, Phyllis Smith That’s my Middle West – not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns but the thrilling, returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows… Read More Inside Out (2015)
Monsters University was greeted the same way that Brave was by critics and moviegoers alike: “It was cute. It would’ve been really good for a Disney movie, but it wasn’t what we expected from a Pixar movie.” The statement is, of course, doubly patronizing, and rather more unfair to one than the other. As hard as it is… Read More The Sorrows of Aging Pixar
Here goes another one of my full-movie commentaries. Today, it’s Disney’s Hercules, which was perhaps my favorite movie in elementary school and is certainly responsible for the interest in mythologies which weirded the heck out of my neighbors when I was a seven-year-old. Consider, for example, this paraphrasing of my Halloween experience in 1998: Me: Trick… Read More Hercules (1997)
Seeing Things Secondhand 