The Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Wartime Era ran from 1942-1949. During this time, the studio was struggling financially following an animators strike and World War II. So, the studio moved away from the full length narrative films that was the hallmark of the Golden Age and moved to package films to keep releasing movies. There […]
The Walt Disney company takes on Halloween with a film based on one of the most popular attractions at the Disney parks in “The Haunted Mansion.” In the film, Eddie Murphy stars Jim Evers, a workaholic real estate agent looking to make a big sale when he brings his family to the mansion. After staying […]
A man who loves music becomes a teacher to provide for his family while working on his own composition in “Mr. Holland’s Opus.” During that time, he never becomes the famous musician he intended to be, but still has an amazing musical legacy that he never realized. It’s a wonderful tale of how one man […]
The Walt Disney Animation Studios wraps up the 1940s with the final package film of the Wartime Era, “The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.” The film features two different stories based on famous fairytales. The first half tells the story of Mr. Toad and is based on “The Wind in the Willows,” while the […]
Disney gives the animated classic “Sleeping Beauty” the live action remake treatment with a twist as the focus shifts to the primary villain in “Maleficent.” The film tells the story of how Maleficent came to hate the king and chose to curse his daughter, but also how she came to love the girl and to […]
Disney takes under the sea again, but this time in real time in the Disneynature documentary, “Oceans.” This documentary looks at the bodies of water that make up about 70 percent of the earth’s surface and 97 percent of the water on earth. It explores the marine animals in earth’s oceans and the negative effect […]
The Sanderson sisters return 300 years after being hanged to wreak havoc on Salem, Massachusetts until two teenagers, a girl, a seemingly immortal cat and a zombie find a way to stop them in the Halloween classic, “Hocus Pocus.” The film was actually a box office dud that took on a life of its own […]
We are back with another Disney+ battle. This week I will be comparing two films from the Walt Disney Animation Studios; the Wartime Era film, “The Three Caballeros,” and the Post-Renaissance Era film, “Home on the Range.” There is a 60 year gap between these two films, so it could be very interesting to see […]
The Walt Disney Company partners with LEGO to make a little spin-off of its popular “Frozen” franchise with the miniseries “LEGO: Frozen Northern Lights.” The miniseries is made up of four shorts that feature Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven trying to see the Northern Lights. But, when it’s hard to see the Northern Lights […]
Disney has a history of bringing in an actor for multiple roles across films. Eleanor Audley played both Lady Tremaine in “Cinderella” and Maleficent in “Sleeping Beauty.” Phil Harris voiced Baloo, Thomas O’Malley and Little John in “The Jungle Book,” “The Aristocats” and “Robin Hood” respectively. And, it’s even spilled over to Pixar with John […]
Disney unveils yet another Silly Symphonies presentation with the 1932 animated short, “Flowers and Trees.” In the short, two trees appear to be in love, but a jealous stump wants the female tree for himself. When the female tree rejects his advances, the jealous stump starts a forest fire to threaten the pair and their […]
Mickey and Minnie Mouse are back for another early Walt Disney short in “Ye Olden Days.” In this short, Minnie is a princess locked up in a tower because she refused to marry a prince, played by Goofy, picked out for her by her father. Mickey attempts to rescue her, gets capture and must duel […]
On April 15, 2019, the most famous cathedral in the world caught fire. Six hundred firefighters in Paris raced against time to put out the flames at the iconic Notre Dame cathedral. National Geographic looked into this natural disaster and profiled the firefighters who were fighting to put out the flames in “Notre Dame: Race […]
Christopher Robin is all grown up and forgotten about the imaginative land known as the Hundred Acre Wood where he used to play with Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and the rest of the animals he grew up with. But, after spilling some honey, Pooh and some of the others cross over between worlds bringing […]
We’re back with another battle between two classic Walt Disney Animation Studios films. This week, I’m comparing and contrasting two of the most iconic films in the Disney canon, “Bambi” and “Cinderella.” Let’s take a look and see which film is better. PROTAGONIST Both protagonists are easy to recognize as they are each in their […]