Overlooked Specials 6th Day of Christmas

6^th Day of Christmas:

"It’s Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown"

We all know “A Charlie Brown Christmas” rightfully so -it’s great and one of the holiday classics! But no one ever talks about its’ follow-up in 1992 which is a very good special in its own right. Unlike the narrative of the first special, this one is composed of a series of vignettes. But they’re GOOD vignettes. Like Charlie Brown trying to buy a pair of gloves for his love interest Peggy Jean, or Sally struggling with her one line in the Nativity play, in which Peppermint Patty is also begrudgingly participating. It’s a Charlie Brown special that’s more sure of itself and has more of the humour of the strip than its predecessor. Also, this special has a few more of my favourite characters, introduced after the original, like Peppermint Patty, Marcie, and Woodstock. I’d say it’s definitely one of the best Peanuts specials and like A Charlie Brown Christmas, worth watching every year.

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Disney's Mulan, Cultural Appropriation, and Exploitation

I’m late on this one I know. I wasn’t willing to spend thirty bucks back in September for a movie experience I knew was going to be far poorer than if I had paid half that at a theatre. So I waited for it to hit streaming for free to give it a shot. In the meantime I heard that it wasn’t very good, but I remained determined not to skip it entirely, partly out of sympathy for director Niki Caro and partly out of morbid curiosity. Disney’s live-action Mulan I was actually mildly looking forward to early in the year in spite of my well-documented distaste for this series of creative dead zones by the most powerful media conglomerate on earth. Mulan was never one of Disney’s classics, a movie extremely of its time in its “girl power” gender politics and with a decidedly American take on ancient Chinese mythology. It got by on a couple good songs and a strong lead, but it was a movie that could be improved upon, and this new version looked like it had the potential to do that, emphasizing

The Hays Code was Bad, Sex in Movies is Good

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Pixar Sundays: The Incredibles (2004)

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