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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.
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Adam Jahnke
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.
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Adam Jahnke
Disney Plus-Or-Minus: Amy
A well-meaning but inert television production couldn't salvage Disney's theatrical fortunes in 1981.
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Adam Jahnke
July 2023
June 2023
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…
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Adam Jahnke
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…
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Adam Jahnke
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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…
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Adam Jahnke
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April 2023
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