Articles by Daniel Pratt

Pocahontas and Pocahontas II

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2012

1994 was the year of Disney's The Lion King, which was an incredible sensation, building on an already impressive roster of animated classi...

Chimpanzee

Alastair Fothergill & Mark Linfield

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2012

Nature documentaries are known for their breathtaking visuals and candid moments of things previously unseen that we humans couldn't possib...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky

PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2012

Each generation has its staple "young adult" book that's revered and fondly looked back upon as a grown up. What was once To Kill a Mocking...

Hotel Transylvania

Genndy Tartakovsky

PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2012

The notion of the overprotective father has been played out on the big screen countless times, with Father of the Bride and Meet the Parent...

Beauty is Embarrassing

Neil Berkeley

PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2012

It's incredible when a documentary unfolds organically without the need for voiceover commentary to steer its trajectory. This style gives...

Underground

Robert Connolly

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2012

Since 2006, WikiLeaks has been digging up and releasing top-secret information via the Internet, pissing off governments the world over by...

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

Alex Gibney

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2012

For more than two decades, the Catholic Church has grappled with a series of sexual abuse scandals and lawsuits, spawning outrage by way of...

What Maisie Knew

Scott McGehee and David Siegel

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2012

The 1897 Henry James novel, What Maisie Knew, tells an intricate tale of divorce and child custody as seen through the eyes of a little gir...