Mickey Markets Movies: Frozen and the Disney Princess Model

The Disney Princess Model If you sit down to watch Frozen and know nothing about it other than it is a Disney princess movie, you should already have a pretty good idea of what you are going to see. There is…

Allyson’s Movie Review: Nebraska

Woody, a man from Missouri, is convinced that he has won one million dollars from a magazine sweepstakes. His son, against his mother’s wishes, reluctantly agrees to drive his aging father to Nebraska to collect his “winnings” but also to…

Allyson’s Movie Review: 12 Years A Slave

Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave without fail is definitively a landmark film. This film paints a portrait of human depravity and the evil that can consume individuals, how that evil manifests itself throughout the years, the overwhelming compassion that…

Allyson’s Movie Review: Captain Phillips

Captain Phillips follows the narrative of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. The film focuses on the Alabama’s…