All Disney Features and Shorts in Release Order - a challenge?
Film #789
If Disney TV movies of the 1950s and 1960s were to be believed, America was practically overrun with lost but secretly talented dogs in search of a new home. After a thankfully brief greyhound racing scene, this one wastes no time sending an animal into the wilderness in search of a friendly face.
If you’ve been following my wacky journey through Disney—or just read the paragraph above—you’ll…
The drama and social upheaval of wartime have been well covered in cinema, particularly in stories set during the Second World War. With APPALACHIAN DOG, actor Colin Henning makes his debut as writer-director, shifting the focus to something quieter but no less powerful: the struggle of returning home to a world that has moved on without you—and the impact on those who have built new lives in your absence.
It’s 1946, deep in the Appalachian Mountains of…
I'm still not sure if this was an indictment of toxic masculinity or an exemplar of its prevalence, but man - those camera angles and edits. It's definitely one of the more stylish manga adaptations of recent memory, but it's seriously weird, man. And I say that while watching the first episode of the 1990 musical cop drama series Cop Rock.
Completely devoid of anything resembling a singular plot, the first five minutes is like a trailer for the film followed by a 15 minute car chase that blows any other action scene of late out of the water. The politics of the film are super weird, almost as strange as the camera angles and whiplash editing, and no opportunity for a butt in lingerie goes past Mr. Bay. Still, if you're not prone to seizures brought on from rapid flashes,…
