Film Review - Mufasa The Lion King
A better-than-expected prequel from Moonlight director Barry Jenkins
Of all the recent because-we-can live-action remakes of Disney animated classics, The Lion King (2019) takes the cake as the most utterly superfluous to requirements. It elevates pointlessness into an art form — not only for remaking the 1994 film in the first place but because “live-action”, in this case, merely means photo-realistic digi…
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