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Gladiators Of Rome
…the good foreign language animated films often have trouble finding their way to the states. But Paramount Pictures apparently showed enough interest to give the film an extremely limited theatrical… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!
…film he had ever watched, as he was 14, in a theater with his fellow newsies in Kansas City, having won a ticket. It was a silent film projected on… |
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Bedtime Stories
…Russell comes off as being more bland than Brand, Sandler’s character is that most odd creature in a family film: he’s actually obnoxious and unlikeable, totally at odds with the… |
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Cars 2’s Victor Navone takes the wheel!
…every time, when working in such an intensive way? VN: Actually I worked on the film for about 15 months, though roughly 50% of the film was animated in ten… |
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Lion King animator Tony Bancroft takes “warthog”’s share on Pumbaa!
…supervise Pumbaa? What drew you to the character? Tony Bancroft: No, actually I asked to work on Zazu originally. Pumbaa and Timon, even at an early stage of the film,… |
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Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!
…was the Disney animation hallmark. In many ways these kinds of films pre-dated the later rash of live-action versions of animated films: the likes of Magnificent Men, The Great Race… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…voice before a session was remarkable. He would run through a bunch of vocal exercises and sometimes sounded like a real lion with a rumbling growl. RI: And what about… |
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Walt: The Man Behind The Myth
…welcome throughout. The early footage is amazing to see in such quality (for film of its age) and stories of Walt’s first attempts at filmmaking and business matters are amusing… |
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Tales From Earthsea
…project on to his son Goro, who had never directed a film before. (This was during one of those times that Hayao Miyazaki claimed to have retired.) The somewhat rushed… |
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Wonder Woman
…and not the fourth. Two of my biggest problems with the DCEU films, and ones that I think have been quite debilitating, are editing and pacing. The last two films… |
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Shark Tale at the Tribeca Film Festival
Craig writes in with a report on Sunday’s DreamWorks event at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where completed scenes from their October animated film Shark Tale were revealed. The event… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…I saw it six more times during its original run, and several times in re-release, and have every single ticket stub from every showing! 8. What was the first film… |
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Exclusive news on DreamWorks at Comic-Con!
…day for an animated film, the largest opening weekend for an animated film, the biggest single-day Saturday gross for any film, and the biggest single-day Sunday gross for any film…. |
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Rise of the Guardians director Peter Ramsey assembles the Guardians of Childhood
…films. Intrigued by Guardians, del Toro made the film one of his top priorities. Meanwhile, Joyce authored a series of Guardians books, to build anticipation for the DreamWorks feature. Left… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure
…offer a handful of fun bonuses. As a side note (and not really an extra at all), the film’s running time is stated on the sleeve at 70 minutes, although… |
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Trolls Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
…be an issue since most soundtracks for animated films only have about five or six songs in them anyway. But the other tracks on those albums were the film’s score…. |
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The Lego Movie
…it’s there if you want to look or you can easily enjoy the film without it. While the last paragraph makes the film sound like a bore, it is anything… |
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Pete’s Dragon: High-Flying Edition
…silent films, the Latin American films Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros of the 1940s, and many other film and television examples. In some ways, Pete’s Dragon may seem to… |
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Tombstone
…George P. Cosmatos’ focusing on the events themselves, naming his movie Tombstone. Of the two films, Costner’s film was overlong, ponderous and lacking a gripping tension that was inherent in… |
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Ice Age: Collision Course
…all hope an asteroid destroys the world by 2019, before a sixth can be released. This film may be the worst major studio animated film I have ever seen. The… |
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Shorts
…hat as a director, that of a maker of children’s films. His Spy Kids films were hits, but its last entry (which helped kick off the current 3-D craze) and… |
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Balto
…themselves. Universal Home Video put out a handsome LaserDisc edition of the film shortly after its theatrical run, and even though there isn’t a single extra to be found on… |
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Director Jim Kammerud on The Fox and the Hound 2
…like to talk about some songs that aren’t in the film, referring to three tunes rumored to have been cut. Is it true that Copper was set to have a… |
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The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit
…by Park, who started the pair’s first film while attending the National Film and Television School in the United Kingdom. A Grand Day Out was actually begun in 1982, but… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…a new outlook on these films, and the temptation of revisiting some beloved characters, I’ve decided to take the chance to look back on the film for this review. I… |
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Monsters University
…characters from the first film. The writers have fit these films together so well that re-watching the original for the first time after seeing this one is going to be… |
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Bee Movie: A Very Jerry 2-Disc Edition
…though the two films couldn’t be more different. Both feature extremely prominent Jewish comedians who had conquered their respective mediums (Woody Allen with feature films, Seinfeld with his genius eponymous… |
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All*Star Superman
…great issue, but watching them spill out in a film is a similar experience to reading the collected edition—a sense of watching episodes rather than experiencing a total film. Still,… |
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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…of the 2005 DVD.) Over the years, I have gone through my checklist of films that I really wanted to see someday. One by one, I have gotten the chance… |
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Despicable Me 2
…film as the kids almost seem like an afterthought. In fact, Edith, the middle child quite literally does nothing in the film and is only occasionally seen karate chopping something… |
