Review: Big Hero 6

At this point it’s pretty safe to say that the Disney Revival is now in full swing.  The era which began with either Bolt or The Princess and the Frog depending on your tastes, and which so far seems to mirror the trajectory of the Disney Renaissance in the 1990’s, has seen Disney producing some seriously outstanding films in the last few years.  Tangled is an underrated masterpiece, Wreck-It Ralph is a creative, kinetic marvel, and Frozen has reached the point where it no longer requires description.  Big Hero 6 represents not just the next big step for Disney Animation, but also the first attempt by Disney at creating its own Marvel-based content outside of the wildly successful Marvel Cinematic Universe.  And while Big Hero 6 could never hope to live up to something like Frozen, it’s still wildly entertaining and enjoyable in its own right, and another solid rung in the Disney Revival ladder.

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Quote of the Day

Benjamin Sisko: Alright Niners! Let’s hear some chatter! Hey batter!

Kasidy Yates: Hey batter batter batter batter batter!

Leeta: Hey batter batter batter batter batter batter!

Worf: Death to the opposition!

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7: Episode 4 – “Take Me Out to the Holosuite”

Quote of the Day

Why?” exclaimed Ron, slamming his spoon down and glaring at his mother. “Why does my room have to be cleaned out? Harry and I are fine with it the way it is!”
“We are holding your brother’s wedding here in a few days’ time, young man —”
“And are they getting married in my bedroom?” asked Ron furiously. “No! So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —”
“Don’t talk to your mother like that,” said Mr. Weasley firmly.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling

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Oz:  Who is that girl?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2: Episode 4 – “Inca Mummy Girl”

Tonight’s Movie: The Little Mermaid

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Quote of the Day

AUTHOR’S NOTE:
When one is writing about the Royal Navy of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it is difficult to avoid understatement; it is difficult to do full justice to one’s subject; for so very often the improbable reality outruns fiction. Even an uncommonly warm and industrious imagination could scarcely produce the frail shape of Commodore Nelson leaping from his battered seventy-four-gun Captain through the quarter-gallery window of the eighty-gun San Nicolas, taking her, and hurrying across her deck to board the towering San Josef of a hundred and twelve guns, so that ‘on the deck of a Spanish first-rate, extravagant as the story may seem, did I receive the swords of the vanquished Spaniards; which, as I received, I gave to William Fearney, one of my bargemen, who put them, with the greatest sang-froid, under his arm’.

Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian

Tonight’s Movie: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

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Today’s Movie: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

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Quote of the Day

Julian Bashir: What are you eating?

Miles O’Brien: I’m not eating; I’m chewing.

Julian Bashir: Chewing what?

Miles O’Brien: Gum. It’s traditional. I had the replicator create me some.

Julian Bashir: They just chewed it?

Miles O’Brien: No, they infused it with flavor.

Julian Bashir: What did you infuse it with?

Miles O’Brien: Scotch.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7: Episode 4 – “Take Me Out to the Holosuite”

Tonight’s Movie: Fiddler on the Roof

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