Tron: Legacy dazzles from start to finish with the same revolutionary level of production design and visual effects that its original first brought to the world nearly 30 years ago. Everything you could dream of from the original is bigger, brighter, and better. Never before have video games, or even science-fiction itself, looked as good or as sharply designed as this. Disney spared no expense and it shows.
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Once again, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader brings the series back to its high adventure and captivating wonder. Fox scored quite a coup to get this and, somewhere, someone soon at Disney will be kicking themselves.
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The Next Three Days pushes the right buttons and poses the right questions of morality much better than most other heist films. While every heist/escape film has its level of implausibility (this one is no different), what this movie has going for it is that very believable journey of an honest man out to do wrong.
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There are a lot of air-quotes in that description of Morning Glory because the stereotypes shown in the film, just as in any real life workplace, are true. The magic of Morning Glory comes in how those stereotypes are broken down and redefined. The characters, while initially shaped as stereotypes, are richer and have a lot more going on underneath, with a great deal of change and growth. In different or more dramatic hands, this movie could have ended up as a button pusher along the lines of the classic Network, but this movie sticks with the comedy and stays light. Morning Glory works because of it's all about the quirks and characters instead of the issues that really make up the news.
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