Say this for Disney: It may have merchandised its animated characters into oblivion, but it's been extremely cautious with the films in which those characters appear. The Warner Brothers cartoon ...

Wednesday marked what would have been the 100th birthday of Walt Disney. And in honor of his centennial, Disney Home Video has released the “Walt Disney Treasures” on DVD. Baby boomers who grew up ...

Like Justin Timberlake and Brittney Spears after her, Annette Funicello rose to prominence as a singer and actress on the back of The Mickey Mouse Club in the late 1950’s. The Club’s daily television ...

This review originally ran March 19, 2022, in conjunction with the film’s world premiere at SXSW. It is easy, perhaps, to take Mickey Mouse for granted, both as an icon and a character. His image, as ...

Those of my generation grew up in the sense the second of three waves in a long-held reign over animated filmmaking by Disney. The beloved and well-known classics like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and ...

Mickey Mouse's creation was not as straightforward as popularly believed, as it involved previous characters like Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and the Perform-O Toys' Micky. Walt Disney's initial sketch of ...