Currently Browsing: "Walt Disney"

Normally I’d be selling you on how an ancient movie is still enjoyable today or that a modern audience can still be moved by pictures made over half a century ago, but I’m not so sure Song of the South really deserves all that much praise for its own artistic merit.

In the mid-1930s, Walt Disney put down his pens and pencils to head to South America to battle Nazis. While completely misleading, that sentence is factually accurate, and there’s a documentary coming out Friday to fill in the details. Check out the trailer inside.

If you didn’t have a chance to keep up with all of this Disney buying Marvel business, don’t worry, as we’ve got you covered…

If the thought of High School Musical makes your stomach turn, you’ll want to avoid this film. However, the movie speaks directly to its demographic and doesn’t try to be something it’s not.

Disney has announced that they’re going Blu-ray on our asses, bringing their platinum standard over to the new format with some quite impressive improvements.

It is safe to say that many of you are fans of Sin City, or at least warm-blooded enough to be interested in the scintillating ladies that graced it’s posters. As well, we have all grown up with such Disney classics as The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast and Snow White. So when [...]

Damn this Wall-E movie — it is forcing me to use the word “cute” at every turn. How am I supposed to maintain my sense of masculinity if I am continually drawn to writing about this cute, cuddly, awesome looking film? It gives me a headache.

Ollie Johnston, the last surviving member of Walt Disney’s “Nine Old Men” passed away last night at age 93. Though perhaps the name may not be familiar, the work certainly is.

Some people are scared of one thing (Freud was afraid of ferns), and some people are scared of everything.. Take Woody Allen. He suffers from many phobias, including Arachibutyrophobia — fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of his mouth.

Resident Disney historian David Smith gave us a peek at some of the correspondence between Walt Disney and Dodie Smith, the author of the original book “The One Hundred and One Dalmatians.”

FSR’s Kevin Carr invades the Disney Animation Studios in Burbank and learns how to draw Dalmations.

Long-time Disney songwriter celebrates the DVD release of a classic.

The thought of a live-action version of Underdog isn’t an awful concept, but how it eventually came to fruition is.