Author: Josh Spiegel

Disney’s first widescreen animated feature used the nascent CinemaScope technique in depicting a low-key romance in turn-of-the-century America.

One of Disney’s earliest live-action hits had its roots on TV as a halfway marketing campaign for the Disneyland theme park.

Jack Black had done smaller work as well as co-headlined Tenacious D beforehand, but his scene-stealing supporting role in the Stephen Frears comedy made him a star.

Love has always been a foundational aspect of Disney’s animated storytelling, in short or feature form. The notion of “happily ever […]

When Walt Disney Pictures released ‘Fantasia 2000’ in IMAX, they paved the way for a whole new world of theatrical exhibition.

On the 20th anniversary of its release — and with his latest critically drubbed technical experiment in theaters — a look back at the film that may have derailed Robert Zemeckis’s entire career.

One, released 20 years ago, captured a singular, distinctive voice. The other, released 25 years ago, was the very definition of a group effort. Yet each are among Pixar’s finest and most beloved works.

A quarter-century ago, Steven Soderbergh and Terence Stamp collaborated on a memorably disturbing antihero who remains one of the great revenge-film antiheroes.

In 1949, Walt Disney and his animators wrapped up their package era with a two-short feature that’s still got the capacity to terrify 75 years later.

The quintessential opening song and credits sequence for the third James Bond film were the most crucial piece that helped establish the franchise for decades.

In 1999, Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy skewered Hollywood with a sly satire that also embraced the magic of filmmaking.