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Ellen Cheshire
Aug 15, 20213 min read
Disney's Snow White (1937)
A recent twitter question about the first film you saw in cinemas, brought to mind my first visit, on 22 February 1974 to the Muswell...
Ellen Cheshire
Mar 5, 20213 min read
Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is an innovative and hugely entertaining film. You can easily forgive the holes in the plot and one-dimensional...
Ellen Cheshire
Oct 23, 20203 min read
Disney's Tarzan (1999)
With rumours that Disney are planning a live-action re-make of Tarzan (1999) starring Ryan Reynolds, thought it an opportune time to go...
Ellen Cheshire
Oct 18, 20203 min read
Disney's The Hunchback of Notredame (1996)
Loosely based on Victor Hugos’ 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris, Disney’s adaptation of his pot-boiler is a brave one as it remains loyal...
Ellen Cheshire
Aug 4, 20202 min read
Disney's The Jungle Book (1967)
Based on Rudyard Kipling’s stories about Mowgli, the man cub. The Jungle Book was the last full length feature film to be produced under...
Ellen Cheshire
Aug 1, 20202 min read
Disney's Mary Poppins (1964)
After twenty years of Walt Disney’s personal requests to the author the Mary Poppins stories P L Travers finally gave in and agreed that...
Ellen Cheshire
Jul 21, 20202 min read
Disney's Peter Pan (1953)
Peter Pan, based on the play by James M Barrie, about a boy who is reluctant to grow up, would seem an ideal project for Walt Disney, a...
Ellen Cheshire
Jul 21, 20172 min read
Aladdin Revisited
With all this talk of Guy Ritchie's live action version of Disney's Aladdin, thought I'd re-visit the original.. Aladdin 1992. 90min....
Ellen Cheshire
Feb 21, 20173 min read
Rescuing The Rescuers
40 years ago I fell for Disney's The Rescuers, I recall pushing my baby brother in his pushchair to the local shop while I bought more...
Ellen Cheshire
Jun 4, 20153 min read
Triumph or Travesty? Fabulous or Folly? Heavenly or Horrific?
It’s been 75 years since Disney’s Fantasia was released, and 15 years since Fantasia 2000 so I thought it time to re-visit them. Fantasia...
Ellen Cheshire
May 18, 20152 min read
Beauty and the Beast - Take 2
Having watched the Cocteau's 1946 version last week, this weekend I curled up and watched Disney's 1991 animated classic. Well I had to,...
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