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Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas
“The inevitable sequel to a successful direct-to-video product, but they can’t announce it as such, so it’s instead marketed as an excuse to watch the beloved Disney icons being animated in CG for the first time. It looks terrible. The characters look strangely lifeless or off model, occasionally” read more
Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas
“Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas is a trio of generic, if heartwarming, yuletide fables that should provide enough babysitting capabilities for the tots in your life. Strung together through the rhyming narration of Kelsey Grammar, whatever annoyance I may have with him his voice is perfectly suited” read more
“Normally, I’m a big fan of Disney’s forays into the Hundred Acre Wood, but The Search for Christopher Robin feels like a great short film that’s been stretched too far. Grand Adventure? Hardly. It just keeps going and going, and while it is initially adorable that Pooh and the gang discover th” read more
Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
“Not a takeoff of the source material so much a vague sequel, The Three Musketeers is a little over an hour but generally free from joy, memorable music, or anything with “oomph” that makes visiting Mickey and the gang so much fun. Sure, the fourth-wall jokes are cute, but they begin to pileup as” read more
“Proof positive that Kronk is best used as a garnish and not the main course. Yes, the entirety of the main cast, including all of the voice actors, reappear in this entry, but many of them are underutilized. Would it have killed Disney to focus instead on Yzma and her scheming? She’s at least ente” read more
“Leroy & Stitch is clearly the “wrap-up” episode of the franchise with all the experiments reunited, the major characters continuing plot points from Stitch! The Movie to their conclusion, and an Endgame-like “gang’s all here” montage of them fighting the bad guy(s). It’s …just kind” read more
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
“68 minutes to basically give a “love conquers all, even death” message to charming characters in endearing ramshackle narrative that does nothing but dilute the brand. Welcome to more of these direct-to-video Disney exercises in making profit above all else. Don’t get me wrong, the film indust” read more
“Less of a sequel movie and more clearly a pilot for the eventual series where we’d meet all 625 prior experiments to Stitch, Stitch! The Movie is… fine, I guess? As these direct-to-video franchise chum exercises go this one isn’t particularly egregious or noteworthy. The chaotic heart of Lilo ” read more
24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault (Deluxe)
“No, it’s not quite a compilation album of songs Stevie Nicks has sat on over the years, but it’s also not really an album of new material, either. It’s somewhere between these two points. These were various demos that Nicks had worked on throughout the years before finally deciding to finish a” read more
“In February 2002, Alanis Morissette released Under Rug Swept, the album that contained one of her last hits, “Hands Clean,” repeated here in an acoustic format. She quickly embarked on her Toward Our Union Mended tour but couldn’t let this particular set of songs go. So just in time for the ho” read more
“The thread that ties together the eight vignettes in Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams is his cinematic surrogate, often wearing his trademark hat. Like any anthology film, Dreams is only as good as any individual segment. While others sparked my engagement more, the ending results is still like that of Kur” read more
“When he was (finally) presented with his (overdue) Honorary Academy Award in 2017, Whoopi Goldberg specifically highlight Donald Sutherland’s enigmatic, gripping, haunted performance in Don’t Look Now as a primary example of his talents as an actor. She not displayed great taste in cherry pickin” read more
“HMS Defiant, or Damn the Defiant! depending, is another entry in the early 60s Napoleonic Wars sea sagas from the Brits. Much like its brethren, Billy Budd and the Brando Mutiny on the Bounty, Damn the Defiant! is a creaky old-fashioned entertainment during an era when the cinematic landscape was ch” read more
“The Prisoner plays out less like an actual film and more like a televised stage performance – mainly interiors, two great actors doing a two-hander, and an overall lack of specifics that plays better on stage than in a movie camera. When and where exactly does this story take place? What’s the w” read more
