Disney

  • Dark Side of the Mouse – 10 disturbing Disney urban legends

    Dark Side of the Mouse – 10 disturbing Disney urban legends

    What comes to mind when you think of Disney? The Disney brand is all about fun, innocent, family-friendly entertainment, full of warmth and soul and happy endings. That’s why Disney calls its world-famous theme parks the happiest places on Earth. Grand claims like that are, of course, going to invite naysayers to open the door Read more

  • Movie Review – Zootropolis – Disney’s first conspiracy thriller

    Warning: this review contains spoilers the size of elephants. 2016’s Zootropolis is the first animated conspiracy thriller to come out of the Mouse House. It’s been called a “conspiracy thriller for children”, but as we all know, most Disney films hold just as much appeal for adults as they do little’uns, if not more. What Read more

  • All 5 books in Christmas series “The East Pudding Chronicles” are available to buy from Amazon

    Warning: shameless book plug ahead. (Hey, it’s Christmas!) Now that December’s here and sleigh bells are jingling, I wanted to tell my loyal readers (including my lovely new followers) about my Christmas-centric book series, The East Pudding Chronicles — in case you’re looking for some quirky Christmas reading for your kids! These books, which are beautifully illustrated Read more

  • Before the Princes in the Tower, there was the ‘Duke in the Castle’

    We’re all familiar with the story of the Princes in the Tower, when 12-year-old Edward V and his 10-year-old brother Richard disappeared without trace in the Tower of London in 1483. But do you know the story of 16-year-old Prince Arthur, Duke of Brittany – the ‘Duke in the Castle’? Arthur, Duke of Brittany and Read more

  • The Disney Conspiracy, Part II – Was Walt Disney a racist?

    In an article I wrote last year, I put the Walt Disney Company on trial for allegedly trying to corrupt children with subliminal sexual messages and gay propaganda, and came to a verdict. Now I’m taking a closer look at the man behind the mouse… Generally Walt Disney is remembered as a jolly old soul Read more

  • Haunting the set – the ‘Three Men and a Baby’ ghost

    Did you know that the ghost of a little boy makes a brief appearance in Disney’s popular 80s comedy Three Men and a Baby? Apparently he used to live in the apartment where they filmed, and committed suicide with a shotgun… Notice anything strange about the scene above? As Ted Danson and his character’s mother Read more

  • The Disney Conspiracy – Subliminal messages and a pro-gay agenda in Frozen?

    The Walt Disney Company has been entertaining generations of people for almost a hundred years, from the groundbreaking Mickey Mouse shorts of the 1920s to 2013’s gargantuan money-spinner Frozen. But some conspiracy theorists believe that behind all the laughs, smiles and saccharine happiness is a sinister, seedy plot to corrupt children with sexual subliminal messaging. Read more