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Ratchet & Clank
…the film, I already had a sense of the characters and the style of the writing. Which brings up a good question: does it help or hinder a film when… |
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Animated Movie)
…country. Though never mentioned in the film, the four young human child protagonists of the story have been sent away from war torn London to live with a kindly old… |
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Astrothrill revealed as part of Comic-Con International Film Festival
Cheeky Entertainment’s animated short Astrothrill has been announced as one of films being screened at the San Diego Comic-Con International Film Festival. For information regarding where and when the film… |
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SMILE on iTunes
In a breakthrough for short film distribution Chris Mais’ animated student short SMILE, the runaway crowd favorite at last Thursday night’s Animation Showcase for the Newport Beach Film Festival, has… |
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Invitation to "Experiential Narrative in Games and Film"
The Los Angeles Professional Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH and the Visual Effects Society are collaborating for “Experiential Narrative in Games and Film,” to be held this Saturday, March 25th. Featuring… |
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The Nutty Professor (2008)
…of course itself remade as a couple of vehicles for Eddie Murphy, but that pair of films threw out the charm of Lewis’ freewheeling effort and resorted to just running… |
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League
…running out and Steppenwolf’s army threatening the very existence of mankind, the five of them might not be enough to stop them. And a certain recently deceased caped hero may… |
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Secret Origin: The Story Of DC Comics
…upcoming Green Lantern live-action film and the potential for a shameless plug for that film towards the closing comments, which thankfully doesn’t happen here. That this information is also presented… |
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Brave
Pixar films (and really just about every recent animated film in the past decade or two) have always been spectacular in scope, and epic in the journeys they take their… |
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Rio 2
…(and hilariously) by Jemaine Clement and Kristin Chenoweth, was easily the highlight of the film. But the rest of the film is entirely frustrating, bordering on insulting. I know a… |
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Bill Plympton's Hair High
…webcam–the Plympton Ani-Cam. The film had its world premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival, enjoyed a very successful run on the film festival circuit, and received celebratory reviews during its… |
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Dumbo finally on Blu-ray for 70th Anniversary!
…and his friend, Timothy Mouse, and “Pink Elephants on Parade,” which accompanies Dumbo’s feverish dream-sequence. Film Synopsis: In celebration of this landmark film’s 70th anniversary, experience the daring adventures of… |
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Spidey's tangled web…
…the film progress in any dramatic sense and only contributed to its overlong running time. What is nice is that the film resolves itself and mostly ties up the series’… |
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Around the world with Mila: Writer (and Director) Cinzia Angelini
…real world issues. They hope their film will encourage viewers to discuss the issue of child war victims and take action to prevent it from happening to more children. Cinzia… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…these films are wonderfully crafted themselves. The disc’s main menu invites the viewer to select from three lists of random films, labelled Puppetoon Films A, B, and C. Each set… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…decade later, especially considering the rush we were in as we only had a few days to get everything up and running. But the story of how this site came… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…version of those stories that is its own thing, but doesn’t visually contradict the books. The basic rule was: When you go back to the book after seeing the film,… |
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A Christmas Carol: season’s greetings from Jim Carrey’s Scrooge!
…members, who include Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn and Robert Hoskins, also have multiple roles. As he was presenting the film earlier this year at the Cannes Film… |
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Mr. Peabody and Sherman
…to fall into several traps when writing them. Mr. Peabody and Sherman falls into three of them. First off, the film is very episodic. As the characters travel to different… |
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Disneynature: Earth
…those original films running sporadically on TV for years afterwards. At the turn of the millennium, a short run of Disney’s New True Life Adventures all but came and went… |
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Superman flies to deluxe Blu-ray set
…digital/hi-def film masters, the must-own comprehensive Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology (1978-2006) on Blu-ray includes all six versions of the films in the original Superman theatrical franchise — Superman: The… |
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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
…Belgium, Russia, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Spain and more also contributed in a variety of ways. In all, they have grown to a crew of about 250… |
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Batman & Mr. Freeze: Subzero / Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm
…the gangsters, Chuckie Sol, makes a run for it. He is confronted by a mysterious cloaked figure who tells him ‘[his] angel of death awaits.’ Chuckie tries to run over… |
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Monsters vs Aliens: Conrad Vernon vs Animated Views!
…like that. All from the 50s, 60s and even early 70s. So, we bought all these films and we had that library of films that we could go reference. Out… |
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Jim Rygiel to direct Bunyan And Babe; first look at Igor
Exodus Film Group has tapped three-time Academy Award winner Jim Rygiel to make his directorial debut on the upcoming film, Bunyan and Babe. Set in modern times, Bunyan and Babe… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…Studios feature film. Before that, she co-wrote and produced five of Coco’s original songs with co-director Adrian Molina, including “Un Poco Loco” and “Proud Corazón”, and also provided additional music…. |
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Stop-Motion Marvels!
…history. According to the wonderful liner notes, Kinex was a Hollywood animation studio formed primarily to create films for the home 16mm film market. Kinex films were distributed in the… |
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Henry Selick speaks about Moongirl and more
…work-in-progress copy of the film and gave us a few suggestions. He seemed to like the film a lot. He was the best combination of brilliant storyteller and human I’ve… |
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Soul
2020 has been a tough year here on planet Earth. Disease is running rampant, we’re trapped in our homes most of the time, we can’t visit friends and family, and… |
