Blu-ray Review: Bad Ronald
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Blu-ray Review: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
A.A. Milne’s fanciful books about his son’s stuffed animal’s come-to-life were purchased by the Walt Disney Company in 1961, and the first animated short was released in 1966. Additional shorts followed in 1968 (winning an Academy Award) and 1974 (earning an Oscar nomination). In 1977, the three shorts were blended together with some additional sequences […]
Blu-ray Review: The Fox and the Hound / The Fox and the Hound II – 30th Anniversary Edition
Disney’s 24th animated film, The Fox and the Hound began production during a time of transition at the studio. Although the two surviving members of Disney’s legendary “Nine Old Men” began work on the project in 1977, they soon stepped aside, passing their duties to a new generation of animation masters, among them Don Bluth. […]
Blu-ray Review: True Grit
Paramount Pictures | 1969 | 127 mins. | G Sixty-two year-old John Wayne’s Best Actor Oscar in 1969, for True Grit has generally been considered as a belated, long-overdue ‘career’ Oscar award or ‘sentimental favorite’ award. That reasoning is hard to argue with—long a box office superstar, True Grit was Wayne’s 139th film, and only […]