Dan’s Top 100 Everything: #26 A Goofy Movie

I could have included this in my Disney Renaissance post, but I chose to give A Goofy Movie it’s own post — ranked directly ahead of the other Disney Renaissance movies. It’s not because A Goofy Movie is BETTER than the other Disney movies. I can objectively accept that Beauty and the Beast has more…

Dan’s Top 100 Everything: #27 Disney Renaissance

Ah, “Disney Movies” — a staple of the childhood of pretty much any American child from the 1990s. These animated films — mostly Broadway-inspired musicals — produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios (née Walt Disney Feature Animation) became one of the most trusted brands in all of cinema thanks to a fantastic run of films…

Pokemon Movies Retrospective: Arceus – To a Conquering Space-Time (2009)

  This is an entry in the Pokemon Movies Retrospective Movie #12: Arceus and the Jewel of Life “The time has come! The humans…must accept my judgment!” – Arceus (Japanese dub) The twelfth film of the Diamond and Pearl subseries, Arceus and the Jewel of Life, known in Japan as  「アルセウス 超克の時空へ」(lit. “Arceus: To a Conquering Space-Time”),…

The Top 50 Disney Songs

There are few things we at Earn This love more than a good musical — particularly a well-animated or -choreagraphed Disney musical. “Let It Go” has yet to thaw from the Billboard Top 10, and we’re creeping up on the 25th anniversary of The Little Mermaid, a film that launched a thousand Buzzfeed “only 90s kids” articles.…

Dan’s Top 100 Everything: #31 The Dark Knight Trilogy

My brain is kind of fried and scattered right now, so this is not going to be the most cohesive of posts. In fact, I’m not even going to try. This entire post is going to be a series of mini-articles and lists. Enjoy! Six Reasons Batman is Intrinsically Awesome and Badass 1. He’s a…

Pokemon Movies Retrospective: Giratina and the Sky’s Bouquet – Shaymin (2008)

This is an entry in the Pokemon Movies Retrospective Movie #11: Giratina and the Sky Warrior “I got left behind again…” – Takeshi (Japanese dub) The next stop on our journey through the Diamond and Pearl subseries of films brings us to Giratina and the Sky Warrior, known in Japan as「ギラティナと氷空の花束 シェイミ」(lit. “Giratina and the Sky’s Bouquet: Shaymin”).…

Dan’s Top 100 Everything: #97 Space Jam Remixes

One of the immutable axioms of music: every song sounds great mashed up with the Space Jam song. I don’t know what it is about the song and its ridiculous beat and rapping by the Quad City DJ’s, most famous otherwise for the song “C’mon and Ride It.” But it’s like lead to an alchemist:…

Dan’s Top 100 Everything: #92 My Cousin Vinny

If you just watched the opening half hour of My Cousin Vinny, I’d definitely excuse you for thinking that it’s a merely average comedy. The set-up of the film is nothing special: A series of misunderstanding and farcical twists of fate leave two New Yorkers on trial for a murder they didn’t commit in Alabama.…