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Winnie The Pooh and new announcements too!
Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween Movie reviewed, plus a slew of new DVD and Blu-ray Disc announcements: Harry Potter, Rocky, The Prisoner and more! |
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Bedknobs and Shermans; Earth and Our Gang!
An interview with Richard Sherman, plus review of Earth and The Our Gang Collection. |
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Warner Archive: The Our Gang Collection
Those original little rascals return in a delightfully nostalgic but exhaustive collection of all 52 of their MGM-produced Our Gang shorts! |
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Disneynature: Earth
Disneynature’s first outing cribs its material from the BBC’s Planet Earth but provides an almost perfectly formed cut-down of events that will amaze newcomers to this footage. |
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Off the beaten track…alternative animation 9 and Astro Boy
One of the most original animated features in a long while has just landed at a theater near you, and I’m very pleased that director Shane Acker’s 9, produced from his original Oscar-nominated short into a feature by Tim Burton, has opened at number two at the box-office, with a $15m take. This is healthy […] |
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Scooby, Aurora and Jasmine…
Although the news is just breaking on Disney’s announcement that they’re scrapping the Platinum Editions and starting again from scratch with the Diamond Collection on Blu-ray Disc, I’m afraid this will be just a quick message today to get an update in before the weekend (hey, it’s my birthday and I’m allowed a day off)! […] |
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales (with Bonus Disc)
This product line extension is back and should again be avoided by collectors, even if they’re tempted by a new, scantly packed and redundant bonus disc. |
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Spider-Mouse: the ultimate character crossover team-up as Disney buys Marvel!
Comments on the Disney/Marvel deal, plus Pete’s Dragon reviewed! |
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Battle from the 80s: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs. GI Joe!
Reviews of two new box sets – the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collection and GI Joe: A Real American Hero, Season 1.1. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
All four Turtles movies in one box, and although the first three films unfortunately miss out on extras, the set gains points with its collectible physical extras. |
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Witch Mountain, Super Friends, and Disney history!
News reviews, plus catching up on some Disney history! |
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Race To Witch Mountain
Disney’s modern update of its own 1975 thriller isn’t as shameless as it might have been, providing the same kind of thrills for today’s audience that the original did back in original release, but the discs are very poor in terms of supplements, making this Race a rental at best. |
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Warner Archive: Doc Savage: The Man Of Bronze
Warner’s Archive Collection offers up overlooked and rarely seen movies, including the George Pal-produced tongue in cheek adventure Doc Savage: The Man Of Bronze. |
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Warner Archive: Freebie And The Bean
Warner’s Archive Collection offers up overlooked and rarely seen movies, including the prototype cop-buddy comedy Freebie And The Bean. |
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Lots of classic super-Warner goodness!
Reviews on some great Warner Archive Collection titles, plus Robert Zemeckis to take on Yellow Submarine!? |
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Warner Archive: Captain Nemo And The Underwater City
Warner’s Archive Collection offers up overlooked and rarely seen movies, including the exciting matinee style adventure Captain Nemo And The Underwater City. |
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Warner Archive: A Distant Trumpet
Warner’s Archive Collection offers up overlooked and rarely seen movies, including legendary director Raoul Walsh’s T A Distant Trumpet. |
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Warner Archive: Captain Sindbad
Warner’s Archive Collection offers up overlooked and rarely seen movies, including Byron Haskin’s Captain Sindbad reviewed here. |
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Warner Archive: The Big Circus
Warner’s Archive Collection offers up overlooked and rarely seen movies, including Irwin Allen’s The Big Circus reviewed here. |
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Miyazaki on Ponyo, plus Green Lantern's First Flight
Review of the Green Lantern video premiere movie, and an interview with Ponyo‘s Hayao Miyazaki. |
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Who's watching the Watchmen?
Who’s watching the Watchmen? Well it seems, after a somewhat lacklustre theatrical outing earlier this year, that many of you are, since it’s been topping the DVD and Blu-ray sales and rental charts. It’s the kind of film that, as I say in my review for the Watchmen: Director’s Cut on Blu-ray Disc, is more […] |
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Watchmen: Director’s Cut
Love it or hate it, director Zack Snyder’s immensely intricate translation of Moore/Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is an impressive achievement, and this more cohesive Director’s Cut is stunningly served in a high definition set. |
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Back to business: new reviews and announcements!
New reviews for Peanuts and Tom & Jerry, plus Disney/Pixar announcements for Up and Monsters, Inc on DVD and Blu-ray. |
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We now return you to our normal operating service…!
Hey gang — I’m back! Phew, what a summer this has been for me even if, very unfortunately, my lack of show around here has seen the site come to an almost grinding halt. But…things should be getting back to normal any day now — well, about as normal as things get around here! The […] |
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Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
Chuck Jones’ continuation of the cat and mouse’s antics make for quite contemporary viewing and, while they won’t replace the traditional classics, remain a decent series in their own right. |
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Exclusive: Going Up with Pixar director Pete Docter!
Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1970s reviewed, plus Jeremie speaks exclusively to Up director Pete Docter! |
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More X-Men, plus A Bug's Life is back!
X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 2 reviewed, plus Jeremie Noyer interviews A Bug’s Life character designer Peter de Sève in celebration of the film’s new Blu-ray release! |
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Cannes you dig it? Plus Disney ditches the Platinums…
Disney’s latest branding line, the Diamond Collection, plus news from Cannes on Terry Gilliam and Martin Scorsese’s latest projects. |
