Scott Renshaw
Scott Renshaw is Arts & Entertainment Editor at Salt Lake City Weekly, and author of the book Happy Place: Living the Disney Parks Life, available from Theme Park Press.
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that, more than any director, writer or actor, the special-effects wizards at Industrial Light & Magic...
When is a group of animated shorts not just a group of animated shorts? That’s the curious question behind the new Disney+ Baymax! spin-off...
It really can’t be overstated how much the unprecedented success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe owes to savvy casting. Yes, many of the characters...
the Star Wars franchise has branched off on two distinct paths: one built on potential, and one built on nostalgia. Which does Obi-Wan Kenobi fall into?!
Oh, Disney+, you pulled a sly one with the way you distributed preview screeners for the new Marvel series Moon Knight. It’s always a...
It’s been nearly 40 years since a mysterious bounty hunter named Boba Fett fell to what appeared to be his ignominious death in a...
“Your whole thing is that you’re low-key,” says Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) to Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) during a scene in the second episode...
In the nearly two years that Disney+ has been up and running, it has often felt like two of their star intellectual properties have...
Based on a couple of examples now, the LEGO Star Wars universe as shepherded by director Ken Cunningham and writer David Shayne is just...
If you're a fan of Star Wars, you probably know that George Lucas was inspired by the films of Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, specifically...
If there’s been one central frustration of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s the realization that any individual part is always subservient to the whole....
Let’s face it: If you’re a regular visitor to this site, you’re no stranger to a lot of the stories behind Disney parks attractions....
The Disney+ release of Pixar’s Luca just a few weeks ago once again launched a debate that has seemed to accompany the majority of...
There’s plenty of reason to feel cynical about the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a monolithic pop-culture entity, and the way every installment in that...
When The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers was announced for Disney+, there was plenty of reason to suspect it would a cash-in on a brand...
In case the discourse surrounding WandaVision didn’t make it clear enough, we’re still negotiating the territory between “it’s a TV show” and “it’s an...
There’s a popular gif from the first Marvel’s The Avengers movie that shows Captain America—only recently thawed from 70 years in the ice—reacting to...
During its first season, The Mandalorian walked a tightrope between carving out its own distinctive flavor and capitalizing on the goodwill engendered by the...
How do you make a fact-based drama about a terminally-ill teenager that negotiates the space between tearful sentimentality and forced uplift? That’s a thin...
The “why” behind doing a remake isn’t always a complicated question; mostly, given the realities of the film and television industry, the answer is...