I finally got around to watching Captain EO, a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between Disney, Michael Jackson, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola that’s a technological marvel and dramatically tedious in the same way the prequel trilogy would prove to be.
Read MoreIf you like movies involving inappropriately romantic relationships, then boy is 1994’s Blank Check is for you! Unsurprisingly, Michael Jackson was a big fan.
Read MoreWe’re britches and boots and if that ain’t good enough for you, maybe you should just pack up and git!
Read MoreOne of you kind souls paid me to experience the Don Bluth’s beautifully traumatizing 1982 directorial debut The Secret of NIMH.
Read MoreFor the concluding entry in Wild Disney Animation Month I come face to face with 1946’s Song of the South, which is every bit as horrifying and racist as its reputation suggests and then some.
Read MoreFilmation’s notorious 1987 Disney knockoff Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night is pure nightmare fuel.
Read MoreIn this piece that will appear in my forthcoming book The Fractured Mirror, I pay reverent tribute to 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which was hailed as a technological miracle when it came out. It has only gotten better with time.
Read MoreJohn Travolta voices an adorable if delusional dog who thinks he’s a superhero in the charming and funny 2008 Disney cartoon Bolt.
Read MoreRobin Williams IS THE GENIE IN the otherwise forgettable 1996 direct-to-video Aladdin second sequel Aladdin and the King of Thieves.
Read MoreFor Wild Disney Animation Month I finally get around to writing up one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time, the staggeringly misguided CGI animated flop Mars Needs Moms, which ultimately takes place not on Mars or Earth but in the most nightmarish recesses of the uncanny valley.
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