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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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