The Million Dollar Duck (1971)
Dean Jones somehow ended his career appearing in St. John in Exile, a wacky stage play of Jesus’ last surviving disciple breaking the fourth wall and yucking it up with a largely religious audience. Up until then, I only thought of Dean Jones as the perptually angry young man of many a Disney movie. Seriously, his […]
Mary Poppins (1964)
Starting with Johnny Tremain, Robert Stevenson made a career of directing some of the best movies that DIsney made, such as Darby O’Gill and the Little People, The Absent-Minded Professor, That Darn Cat!, Bedknobs and Broomsticks and many more. Of all these movies, Mary Poppins is the best considered. Beyond being a commercial success — It was the highest-grossing film of […]
SHARK WEAK: Sharks of the Corn (2021)
How can sharks get into a cornfield? Who would name their town Druid Hills? Why would you let a serial killer sit in the back of your police car? How did Stonehenge get to Kentucky? Tim Ritter (Hi-Death is his last movie we reviewed, but his career goes all the way back to Day of the Reaper which […]
Return from Witch Mountain (1978)
In the second Witch Mountain movie, Ike Eisenmann, Kim Richards and Denver Pyle all come back as Tony, Tia, and Uncle Bené, a family of extraterrestrials with special powers. How could they make this even better, you wonder? How about by having Bette Davis as the film’s villain, a woman named Letha Wedge, who is financing […]
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
Based on the science fiction novel by Alexander H. Key, Disney has had great success with Witch Mountain, making two movies in the seventies, a Disney Channel sequel in the 80s, a 1995 remake and a 2009 cannon sequel that was marketed as a remake, despite the fact that Tia and Tony kind of cameo and are […]
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