Most live-action Disney remakes feel like perfunctory re-treads. The exceptions, which are few and far between, include Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella, whose emphasis on kindness through adversity makes ...

A thin but lovely film about embracing change, Lowery's latest is a high-flying rebuttal to the soullessness of Disney's other recent live-action remakes. For one thing, Lowery’s update doesn’t look ...

The live-action film, “Peter Pan & Wendy,” debuts today, Friday, April 28, 2023, on Disney+ streaming service. The Disney+ original “is a live-action reimagining of the J.M. Barrie novel and the 1953 ...

As much as anything, it was Tim Burton’s 2010 live-action adaptation of Walt Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland,” which rocketed to more than $1 billion in ticket sales, that convinced Disney brass that ...

A couple years ago, I mused whether David Lowery’s Peter Pan and Wendy (now on Disney+) or Benh Zeitlin’s 2020 film Wendy would better execute the following premise: What if Terrence Malick directed a ...

You could say “Peter Pan & Wendy,” the latest voyage to the Disney+ recycling bin, is an unexpectedly strong movie. But it’s not unexpected, so really, you shouldn’t call it that. The director and ...

With “Peter Pan and Wendy,” Disney sets out to bring the boy who refused to grow up into the 21st century — not literally, like those taxing live-action/cartoon hybrids, where computer-generated ...

If you’re familiar with Disney’s animated Peter Pan or really any version of the story from author J.M. Barrie, then you’re going to be pretty up to speed with the plot of Peter Pan & Wendy. Wendy ...

Disney released the first footage of “Peter Pan & Wendy,” the studio’s upcoming live-action adaptation, exclusively at the D23 Expo on Friday. The film will debut on Disney+ in 2023. The film’s cast, ...

Director David Lowery's movie has splendid visuals but lacks charm The crux of the problem is Peter himself. Instead of a winsome trickster, he's a bore taxed with a soggy backstory. Pan also ventured ...