One of the most popular films of the Disney Renaissance gets the live action treatment in “Aladdin.” This 2019 film takes the story from the 1992 animated classic and makes a few tweaks while still busting out the popular music from Howard Ashman, Alan Menken and Tim Rice. In the end, my favorite Disney animated […]

The Walt Disney Company, which was founded as Disney Brothers Studio in October 1923, has planned a year-long 100th-anniversary celebration that begins this fall. At the D23 Expo in Anaheim, media and fans will surely hear many current executives praise the Disney Legacy and library as valued creative assets.  Yet the track record of actually […]