Believe it or not, last year was the first time I ever watched Nightmare from start to finish, and I was completely smitten.
Category: Legacy
Oct 2022 update: I wrote an expanded review of this, which you’ll find here.
Edit: I wrote an expanded review for this following my 2022 rewatch.
Quick overview for the uninitiated (like I was last year): A bunch of interconnected shorts adding up to feature length telling the story of brothers Wirt and Greg wandering some sort of fantastical woods in late autumn.
Compared to the other Halloween specials I’ve watched this Spooktober with my daughters, Curious George’s is the one that is most clearly “for kids” with little concern for the attention span of the grown ups.
As someone who recently fell in love with a semi-coherent documentary of old film footage soundtracked to voiceover ramblings, you’d think this one in the same genre might also do it for me.
It might be the nostalgia speaking, but I feel like Men in Black represents a golden and lost era of blockbusters
For how cheap and rushed it should feel, given that it’s a 50-minute special advertising a theme park attraction, Muppets Haunted Mansion is surprisingly well-realized.
I don’t have too much experience with the modern-retro Mickey Mouse shorts from the late 2010s, so it was enlightening to see it in full bloom for a 20 minute special.
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Dumbo (1941)
In many ways, Dumbo feels like it should have been the first Disney animated feature.
It’s tough to think of many other movies that are more cheerful than this one — it’s a movie where it’s easy to have a smile on your face during literally the entire duration without really realizing it.