This live-action version is cute, and Laga’aia is an exciting new star, but it doesn’t quite pull off a convincing argument to go out when we already have “Moana” at home.

Eddie Possehl is a dynamic and driven writer/director with a passion for the written word and all things film, television, comics, and games. His passion for storytelling led him to establish his own production company in hopes of achieving his dreams.

Rudyard Kipling’s anthology of short stories about a man-cub named Mowgli has set fire to imaginations for ages, inspiring a series of adaptations in the form of animated movies and TV shows. Though a live-action adaptation was released back in 1994, the ...

It’s amazing what a difference shooting on location can make. If one thing has defined most of the live-action remakes of animated classics we’ve gotten over the past decade, it’s been a general sense of pointlessness. While these new movies often ...