Saving Mr. Banks, Delivery Man
November 26, 2013
Not a full-scale review, but I very much enjoyed Vince Vaughn in Delivery Man,which struck a nice balance between humor and seriousness.
Also, I was privileged to attend a preview showing of Saving Mr. Banks, with Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers, author of the Mary Poppins books. Be on the lookout for this one over the holidays. It is amazingly entertaining. The movie shows the culmination of 20 years of work by Disney to obtain the rights to make the now-iconic movie. Hanks does an amazing and brilliant Walt Disney (he even had a dialog coach!), and Thompson is just amazing. The flashback structure irritated me at first--I am much more interested in Hollywood in 1961 than Australia in 1904--but I got used to it, and I understand why the story was told this way.
The Day of the Doctor, the 50th anniversary of Dr. Who, was also pretty cool.