It's pure coincidence that American Thanksgiving has just passed us by and that our hosts just so happen to be taking on the Disney-fied, romanticized version of the first Thanksgiving with SQUANTO: A WARRIOR'S TALE. Or at least as Disney-fied as a story can be that still opens with a horrifying sequence of two First Nation's men being stolen from their homeland and forced to perform in sideshows for the entertainment of Michael Gambon and the rest of the seventeenth century British elite. There's something engrossing about this movie, whether it be a young Adam Beach's undeniable magnetism and charm, Mandy Patinkin's always soothing presence, or the surprisingly decent investment into production and costume design. But then again, it's Disney doing another story about the horrors of colonialism and the terror it wrought on indigenous populations, so we're not letting it off the hook that easily.
