Derek and Julianne Hough takes us into some of the most iconic dance scenes in film in the new program “Step Into… the Movies.” The brother-sister duo recreates the amazing scenes from “Singin’ In the Rain,” “Moulin Rouge,” “Chicago,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Footloose,” “Saturday Night Fever,” “Dirty Dancing,” and “La La Land.” It also […]
Mickey and friends experience Spring through the lens of a nature documentary in the “The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse.” This is the second in a series of shorts based on the seasons from the creators of “The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse.” Keith David narrates three shorts. In the first, Mickey and his friends […]
The Silver Age of Disney Animation ran from 1950 to 1967. It represented a time when Disney returned to the feature length narrative storytelling after having switched to a package format during the Wartime Era. It lasted until the passing of Walt Disney and ended with the first film released after his death. There are […]
A young boy gets separated from his village and ends up in the jungle where he needs help from a panther and a bear to escape a tiger and a snake in the 1967 Walt Disney animated classic, “The Jungle Book.” The film is loosely based on Rudyard Kipling’s book of the same name. This […]
Beth is a wine distributor living in Manhattan with a life that looks perfect on the outside, but when her mother dies, she returns to her hometown and starts having flashback on the teenager she was, who she has become and who she would like to be in “Life and Beth.” While going through her […]
Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani appear to be on top of the world, but their actions are causing some of their employees and some of those who feel they have been wronged by Holmes in the past to start working together to take her down in the latest episode of “The Dropout.” While Theranos is […]
After three years of delays, Walgreens is getting antsy, so Elizabeth and Sunny have to find a way to get the Wellness Centers up and running within six months in the latest episode of the Hulu/Star Original Series, “The Dropout.” Meanwhile, her she’s still suing her childhood neighbor over a patent, so Dr. Fuisz has […]
The Walt Disney Animation Studios takes a very unusual look at the early days of King Arthur in the 1963 animated classic, “The Sword in the Stone.” The film follows a young Arthur, nicknamed Wart, as he meets Merlin who wants to train him as a wizard. But Arthur’s foster father wants him to be […]
It’s time for another Disney+ battle. This time, it’s a battle between a classic from Disney’s Golden Age of Animation and a lesser-known film from Disney’s Silver Age of Animation. So, let’s find out which film is better: “Bambi” or “The Sword in the Stone.” 1. PROTAGONIST The main character of “Bambi” is, of course, […]
It’s time, once again, for another Disney+ Battle. In this battle it’s the film that started feature animation as we know it today against the film that changed Disney’s animation plan during World War II: “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” versus “Saludos Amigos.” “Snow White” is the most important animated film of all time, […]
Disney and Pixar give us a behind-the-scenes look at the latest Pixar film in the documentary, “Embrace the Panda: The Making of Turning Red.” We meet many of the people involved in the filmmaking process including the director, producer, and many others who helped bring this film to screen. Along the way, we learn how […]
Mickey Mouse has a dream he enters his mirror and sees things as they are on the other side of the glass in the 1936 Walt Disney Animation Studios short, “Mickey Thru the Mirror.” Mickey goes through the mirror and has a fight with a deck of cards, has issues with the telephone, rocking chair […]
We are back with another Disney+ Battle. In this series, we take two classic Disney films and pit them against each other to see which is the better movie. While this is completely subjective, it’s still a lot of fun to compare and contrast some great films from Disney and Pixar. This week, we are […]
Disney takes on another classic fairy tale during its Silver Age of Animation with “Sleeping Beauty” and it leads to a complete overhaul of how Disney animation is produced going into the 1960s. This film lost money and many consider it a flop for its time but today it is regarded as one of the […]
A young man working in an office sees the girl of his dreams across the street and tries to get her attention in the 2012 short, “Paperman.” When a stack of papers is put on his desk by his boss, he folds every piece of paper into paper airplanes in an attempt to get her […]