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Disney Plus-Or-Minus: Night Crossing
“Based on a true story” is not a phrase typically associated with Walt Disney Productions. Walt would occasionally dabble in historical dramas, as in…
Sep 18
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Disney Plus-Or-Minus: The Watcher In The Woods
Despite his image as a jovial nostalgia merchant and the founder of the happiest place on Earth, Walt Disney was not afraid of the spooky and downright…
Sep 5
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August 2023
Disney Plus-Or-Minus: Condorman
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a turkey! Disney tries and fails to mash up spies and superheroes with the 1981 flop Condorman.
Aug 28
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Disney Plus-Or-Minus: The Fox And The Hound
Disney animation finds itself at a crossroads with The Fox And The Hound, a bittersweet story with a surprisingly dark and complex history.
Aug 21
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Disney Plus-Or-Minus: Amy
A well-meaning but inert television production couldn't salvage Disney's theatrical fortunes in 1981.
Aug 14
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July 2023
Disney Plus-Or-Minus: The Devil And Max Devlin
Disney entered 1981 as a studio with a severe identity crisis. Longtime producer and Walt’s son-in-law Ron Miller took over as president in 1980. He had…
Jul 31
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Disney Plus-Or-Minus: Herbie Goes Bananas
When Disney released The Love Bug in late 1968, Herbie became one of the studio’s unlikeliest breakout stars. The movie was a huge hit and most critics…
Jul 13
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June 2023
Disney Plus-Or-Minus: The Last Flight Of Noah's Ark
By 1980, Disney was finally starting to take a few chances. Some of these gambles were pretty big, like The Black Hole. Others were small, such as…
Jun 1
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May 2023
Disney Plus-Or-Minus: Midnight Madness
When is a Disney movie not a Disney movie? We’ve answered this riddle a number of different ways already in this column. There are the TV productions…
May 18
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Disney Plus-Or-Minus: The Black Hole
By the end of 1977, every studio in Hollywood wanted their own Star Wars. But unless you were Roger Corman, you couldn’t just crank out a sci-fi epic…
May 12
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Disney Plus-Or-Minus: Unidentified Flying Oddball
Walt Disney was a huge fan of Mark Twain and it’s not hard to understand why. Samuel Clemens was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, about 90 miles east of…
May 4
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April 2023
Disney Plus-Or-Minus: The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
In one of my favorite episodes of the now Disney-owned The Simpsons (a phrase that causes my soul to die a little every time I type it), Homer…
Apr 28
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