Saving Mr. Banks (2013) is a biographical drama film that takes us behind the scenes of the iconic 1964 Disney production Mary Poppins and tells us the story of how the movie was developed and the ...

P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson)—the irascible author of Mary Poppins—frets and complains bitterly throughout Saving Mr. Banks that her beloved story will lose its realistic edge in the hands of Walt ...

“This world is just an illusion,” alcoholic Travers Goff told his daughter Helen. That little girl never forgot those kind but strangely melancholy words, and she never forgot her father, either.

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Mary Poppins meant nothing to me as a child. I’d never read the book and didn’t love the movie. I That hope for the film isn’t misplaced, because Thompson is its bracing spine, her Travers as tightly ...