Mom’s Got a Date with a Vampire (2000)
Say what you will about my love of live action Disney movies — not to mention Disney Channel movies — but I defy you to not enjoy a movie in which Robert Carradine shows up as a vampire hunter named Malachi Van Helsing. The vampire in this movie, Dimitri Denatos, is played by The Right […]
Herbie Rides Again (1974)
Those obsessed with the meta nature of Disney films will be happy to know that Herbie Rides Again connects this series of films with the Medfield films, as Keenan Wynn brings his villainous Alonzo Hawk against our beloved VW bug (Hawk also appears in The Absent-Minded Professor and Son of Flubber, which take place at Medfield […]
Inspector Gadget (1999)
If you’re from Pittsburgh, you know that Dr. Claw’s intimidating glass castle is just PPG Place. Otherwise, this is a movie with perfect cartoon to real-life casting. You have Matthew Broderick as the Gadget, Rupert Everett as Dr. Claw, Michelle Trachtenberg as Penny and Dabney Coleman — the most perfect of these casting decisions — […]
Tron: Legacy (2010)
One of the few things that never rang true to me about Tron was that Flynn ends up as a CEO. Luckily, Tron: Legacy fixed that by telling us what happened next, all while keeping up the Tron legacy of being a hyped big deal and then not being seen by anyone except those that it was intended […]
Tron (1982)
I was ten when this movie came out and it was — without a doubt — the biggest thing in my life. Talk about brand synergy — to walk into the GameTrek arcade and see an actual Tron arcade machine with all the same sound effects! I wanted to disappear into the video game grid […]
Pollyanna (1960)
Based on the novel Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter, this story had already been adapted into a movie with Mary Pickford in 1920. By the late 1950s, the book was still selling 35,000 copies per year, so Walt Disney bought the rights and got the biggest cast he’d ever used for one of his movies, […]
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