The 13 Best Nature Documentaries on Disney Plus Right Now

[ad_1] Jane. Photo: National Geographic This list has been updated. *New additions are indicated with an asterisk. In the hubbub surrounding Disney’s 100th anniversary, a very cool piece of film history fell through the cracks: the fact that Walt Disney himself invented the nature documentary. The year was 1948, and Disney was starting to regain its footing after a difficult period… Continue reading The 13 Best Nature Documentaries on Disney Plus Right Now

The 15 Best Nature Documentaries on Discovery Plus and Max

[ad_1] Planet Earth II. Photo: BBC This list has been updated. *New additions are indicated with an asterisk. You can capture the passage of time in the crisp high definition (and beyond) of nature documentaries, but you can also capture it in the upheaval of streaming services. Only a couple years ago, Discovery+ was the… Continue reading The 15 Best Nature Documentaries on Discovery Plus and Max

“The Adults” Deconstructs the Musical to Probe the Nature of Performance

[ad_1] Genre is a cursed thing. Dustin Guy Defa’s new movie, “The Adults,” isn’t really a musical, but the performances of music and dance that figure in it are both more dramatically essential and more distinctively realized than those in many films commonly thought of as musicals. For that matter, much else that Defa does… Continue reading “The Adults” Deconstructs the Musical to Probe the Nature of Performance