Every hero has an origin story — especially ones that launch a line of toys. “Lightyear,” Pixar’s latest time-twisted tie-in to the “Toy Story” franchise, now playing in theaters nationwide, tells the origin story of Buzz Lightyear through the context of a sci-fi adventure film. Buzz Lightyear and Alisha Hawthorne in “Lightyear.” More recently, “Lightyear’s” queer representation has attracted more …
Malaysia’s film censors said Friday that it was Disney’s decision to ax the animated film “Lightyear” from the country’s cinemas after refusing to cut scenes promoting homosexuality. Scenes and dialogues that it “found to contain elements promoting the LGBT lifestyle which violate key aspects of the Guidelines on the Film Censorship” were ordered to “be cut and muted,” the board …
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Authorities across much of the Muslim world have barred Disney’s latest animated film “Lightyear” from being played at cinemas after the inclusion of a brief kiss between a lesbian couple, the company said Thursday as the movie premiered. Thirteen nations and the Palestinian territory barred the Pixar film that has actor Chris Evans voicing the …
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