National Geographic

Nat Geo’s Lion Is the Real Lion King, and the Movie Got One Big Thing Wrong

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  When Jon Favreau finished the 2019 Lion King, the photoreal remake that rebuilt Simba out of pure computer animation, he came away wanting the opposite of what he had just made. He wanted a real lion. Lion, the four-part National Geographic series he executive produced, is that wish carried out over four years in … Read more

Pompeii: Out of Time — Tom Hiddleston’s Documentary Says the People Had Time to Run

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  You know the image even if you have never set foot in Pompeii. A body curled on its side in the ash, knees drawn up, caught in the instant the mountain took it. For the better part of three centuries those plaster casts have taught the world one lesson about the city: that death … Read more