It is extremely difficult to make a good movie. It is almost impossible to make a perfect one. But every so often, the stars align to bring forth…
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It’s tempting to view Return From Witch Mountain as Disney’s first response to the blockbuster success of Star Wars and Close Encounters Of The Third…
From a 2023 perspective, Jodie Foster may seem like the unlikeliest of Disney stars. We know her today as the Oscar-winning actress of such very…
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Disney animation appeared to be mounting a bit of a comeback in 1977. The year began with The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh, mostly recycled…
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February 2023

The last time we saw Herbie the Love Bug, he was living in San Francisco with the elderly aunt of mechanic Tennessee Steinmetz and going up against the…
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If you were going to the movies in 1977, it probably didn’t seem like it had been too long since Disney had released an original animated feature. The…
Walt Disney had wanted to make a film based on A.A. Milne’s Winnie-The-Pooh for a very long time. His daughter, Diane, had been a big fan of the books…

January 2023

When you think of live-action Disney movies from the 1970s, you probably think of wacky gimmick comedies. Lord knows this column has been dominated by…
The last time Jodie Foster was in this column, she was crushing on a faux-Indian boy and his camel in the 1973 Disney Minus One Little Indian. By the…
All the way back in 1959, The Shaggy Dog introduced the world to Walt Disney’s Gimmick Comedies. It had been an enormous hit and its success begat the…
During the Golden Age of the Hollywood Studio System, it was not unusual for directors to have their names on multiple movies over the course of a…
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There is some dispute over which movie should come next in this chronological survey of Disney films. Wikipedia and IMDb both claim that Treasure Of…