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While Disney has been churning out stale, emotionally-lacking remakes of their nineties golden-era films in live action or hyperreal CGI form, film lovers have still been holding quiet hope for their subsidiary company, Pixar, to deliver…

Apple TV+, HBO Max, Disney+, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu... are you keeping track? Entertainment giant Disney announced the entirety of its future Disney+ catalogue on Twitter last week. The thread itself was extremely lengthy at…

It has been almost a month since Marvel fans received the shocking news that Spider-Man would not be returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and what a long month that has been. After fans went through all five stages of grief and…

Disney has unveiled a first-look at their new streaming service Disney+ at their D23 Expo, as well as announcing a few more exciting TV projects set to launch in the next few years. Ewan McGregor will reprise his role as Obi Wan Kenobi…

It's official: the floppy haired, Prada-wearing, impossibly chiseled Harry Styles has officially been cast as the leading man in Disney's upcoming live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. Fleshing out the role of Prince Eric (my first…

Since 2010, Disney has slowly been releasing more and more ‘live-action remakes’ of its classic films. In the wake of 2019’s The Lion King, and with Mulan (2019) soon to be making an appearance on our screens, I have to wonder: who are…

The opening to Disney’s Lion King (1994) is utterly, and undeniably iconic. In this contemporary re-imagining of the classic animated feature, director Jon Favreau (The Jungle Book) matches the sequence almost shot for shot with a…

Female Thor, vampire slaying, space oddities and multiverse theories. Last night’s overwhelming wave of nerd euphoria can only mean one thing. Marvel Studios unofficially won Comic Con yesterday when they announced their upcoming…

When it comes to the cinema, I’m quite predictable. Stick a Brat Pack staple in front of me and I’m happy. But it’s not always been this way - there were many predecessors to my look-at-me-I-just-discovered-John-Hughes-and-The-Smiths phase.…

Here at Film on The Indiependent, we realise that sometimes, due to a plethora of options, most people struggle to know what to go and watch at the cinema. So to give you a helping hand this New Year's Eve, we've decided (in no particular…

Disney has come under fire for choosing to cast Jack Whitehall, a straight man, as Disney’s first “openly gay” character, who is set to be “hugely effete, very camp and very funny.” Members of the LGBTQ+ community, as well as many…

This week, Disney announced that their new action-remake of Beauty and the Beast is to feature its first ‘exclusively gay moment’ in a Disney film. The moment is said to be between Le Fou and Gaston, but this isn’t the first time that…

Disney's Pixar Animation Studios have confirmed the release dates of two highly anticipated sequels; the second installation of The Incredibles, and the fourth of the Toy Story films. Pixar are the minds behind the most successful animated…

The new trailer for Disney Pixar’s long awaited Finding Dory has been released and is already producing massive online-debate. After its release last week on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, many avid viewers pointed out one key aspect of the…

Back at it again, Disney Sticking with their most recent trend, Disney has yet again remade another original animated classic into a live action feature – but I’m not complaining. The Jungle Book follows Mowgli, a “man-cub” that lives…