‘That witch. That devil woman. She wants our puppies - that’s all she’s after…’

1961’s 101 Dalmatians is Disney’s Silver Age adaptation of Dodie Smith’s novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians, directed by Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wolfgang Reitherman (after debuting here, Reitherman would go on to direct the next film in the Canon - 1963’s The Sword in the Stone - as well as other Disney classics like The Jungle Book and Robin Hood). I always find it…

What a racquet!

I was interested in this film having seen the trailer all over the place in the last few months, but I’m sorry to say that outside of a couple of little laughs and some memorable choices in of cinematography, the rest of the film really disappointed me.

I feel like for a love triangle to work, we have to at least resonate emotionally with two of the three characters involved, and of those two characters, one…

‘Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your NINE LIVES!’

I don’t know if any teenager in the UK or the US learning about Shakespeare after 1996 managed to avoid watching this in a high school English or Drama class - it seems to have been a universal experience on either side of the Atlantic. I certainly was forced to watch Baz Luhrmann’s take on Romeo and Juliet at the age of fourteen. Strangely, though, while the general consensus…