Wish (2023)Directors: Chris Buck, Fawn VeerasunthornScreenwriters: Jennifer Lee, Allison MooreStarring: Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, Alan Tudyk, Angelique Cabral, Victor Garber, Natasha Rothwell, Jennifer Kumiyama, Harvey Guillén, Evan Peters, Ramy Youssef, Jon Rudnitsky One hundred years of Disney. How does one possibly celebrate such an occasion? The little studio that begun with animated movies about a […]
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Steamboat Willie (1928)Directors: Ub Iwerks, Walt DisneyScreenwriters: Walt Disney, Ub IwerksStarring: Walt Disney, Charlotte Jamquie It all started with a rabbit. That’s right, around a year before Mickey, Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit who, despite starring in dozens of shorts, was unceremoniously ditched in favour of another anthropomorphic animal character
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There’s a fair amount of nightmare fuel in this particular kid’s movie, from Snow White’s escape through a psychedelic dark forest to pretty much every scene with the Evil Queen. The moment where she takes a magic potion to alter her appearance to fool Snow White, transforming into an old crone in a cloud of
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Beauty and the Beast (1991) Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise Screenwriters: Linda Woolverton, Brenda Chapman, Chris Sanders Starring: Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Jesse Corti, Rex Everhart, Bradley Pierce 18th Century French fairy tale “La Belle et la Bête” is one of the best-known, most influential and
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise Screenwriters: Tab Murphy, Irene Mecchi, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, Jonathan Roberts Starring: Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Tony Jay, Kevin Kline, Paul Kandel, Jason Alexander, Charles Kimbrough, Mary Wickes, David Ogden Stiers There have been numerous adaptations of Victor Hugo’s “Notre-Dame de Paris” since its
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Mulan (1998) Directors: Barry Cook, Tony Bancroft Screenwriters: Rita Hsiao, Philip LaZebnik, Chris Sanders, Eugenia Bostwick-Singer, Raymond Singer Starring: Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, BD Wong, Miguel Ferrer, James Hong, Harvey Fierstein, Pat Morita, George Takei Disney’s latest animated classic to receive the extravagant live-action remake treatment is Mulan. Back in 1998, Mulan was something pretty
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