Stitch Crashing Disney Classics

Next week sees the UK finally get access to Disney+, the House of Mouse's new streaming service. To get you in the mood today we're sharing a compilation of the promo material for Lilo and Stitch where the popular and cute destructive alien gatecrashes Disney animated classics including Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. It's a lot of fun and serves as a nice homage to Disney movies too!

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Doctor Dolittle on Screen

Dolittle hits UK cinema screens this week, starring Robert Downey Jr as the famous doctor who can converse with animals, with a slightly odd Welsh accent. Doctor Dolittle was the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting, starting with The Story of Doctor Dolittle in 1920. Lofting actually created Dolittle in illustrated letters to his children from the trenches of World War I when actual news was either too dull or too horrible. There have been a number of screen adaptions over the years but the first was in 1928 in Germany. Early animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger made Doktor Dolittle und seine Tiere ( Doctor Dolittle and his Animals ) as her second feature film. This trailer for a DVD version gives you some idea what it looked like: The doctor didn't return to screens until 1967 when he was portrayed by Rex Harrison in a musical version. It may seem odd that it took so long for a live-action film to be made but when you consider the books ar...

Pixar Teases for Future Films

Disney Pixar's latest film Onward will be released in the UK this week. Pixar's films are full of Easter eggs. You probably know that most of their films feature a Pizza Planet truck and there are endless uses of the Luxo ball and "A113" which refers to a classroom number where many of the Pixar people started their careers. Pixar films are also well known for inserting references to future films and we've collected together these teases. Monsters Inc. - Clownfish from Finding Nemo make several cameos in this film, most obviously when Sully gives Boo a clownfish toy but one can also be seen on the wallpaper of the sushi restaurant. Finding Nemo - In the dentist's waiting room a young patient is reading a Mr. Incredible comic book. There's also a nod to Cars - when the fish are escaping in their bags you can see Luigi zooming past. Ratatouille - When a dog barks at Remy we can clearly see from it's shadow that it's Doug from ...

Films with Years in the Title

With 1917 hitting UK cinemas this week, I thought it might be interesting to look at other films which have years in their titles... 10,000BC Disaster movie director Roland Emmerich made this 2008 film about a prehistoric tribe of mammoth hunters. Most people thought it looked decent enough but style was no substitute for substance and the large number of historical inaccuracies didn't help critics enjoyment of the film. It's widely regarded as Emmerich's worst film and by many as the worst film of the year. Despite this, it did reasonably well at the box office. Year One Another pre-historic disaster by a respected director, this time Harold Ramis. It stars Jack Black and Michael Cera as cavemen and is supposed to be a comedy. I struggle to get past the title- surely "Year One" means the first year after Jesus' birth and therefore some time post-cavemen? 1776 This 1972 musical based on the Broadway show of the same name is a...

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