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Full Disney D23 panel recap; Mickey Mouse in Get a Horse! to be shown before Frozen
…by Broadway’s Tony® Award-winner Idina Menzel, who provides the voice of Elsa in the film. In “Frozen,” fearless optimist Anna (voice of Bell) teams up with rugged mountain man Kristoff… |
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Bambi II: Special Edition
…To Never-Land was a delightful surprise in theaters after a poor run of sub-TV styled “features” such as Pocahontas II, Hunchback II and the downright frankly awful Cinderella II (notice… |
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Frankenweenie
…visual poke at Disney’s, via a ruined fairytale castle). The rest of the locations, even the digitally extended ones, just don’t seem that inspired, despite the no doubt impressive amount… |
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Superman Unbound
…stories found in DC comic books over the past several years. Many fans have loved his extended runs on titles such as JSA, Flash and Green Lantern. This is largely… |
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Get ready for The Snow Queen, but not Disney’s version
…the film. Western fans might recognize the Russian distributor and co-producer Timur Bekmambetov, with credits to his name as 9 and Kikoriki Team Invincible. He released the film in Russia… |
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Pete Docter’s Up-bringing!
…sometimes nature – the rustling of leaves through trees or the way water cascades over rock or something like that, just very subtle little things, but the audience recognizes them… |
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Dragon Ball Z tops Japan’s box office
The latest entry in the long-running Anime series, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, topped the box office in Japan last weekend, with the movie earning about $7 million in… |
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Happily N’Ever After
…films. But then another… and another… and at this point you almost think it is a joke, but no, there is one more. FIVE different production company logos run before… |
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Jem’s Popularity is Truly Outrageous
…rumor has circulated for a few years about a Jem movie (Hasbro trying to cash in on their older properties), but legal issues are still a problem. Rumors are still… |
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Pay TV being outflanked by web creators
…is accelerating and that traditional media industry gatekeepers run by executives such as Brian Roberts, Rupert Murdoch, Bob Iger, Sumner Redstone, Jeff Bewkes, etc. do not hold the same grip… |
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Rise of the Guardians director Peter Ramsey assembles the Guardians of Childhood
…guy to voice a Russian Santa Claus”? PR: When Alec’s name first came up, we were thinking of candidates for Pitch. We thought, “We want to give him some personality…. |
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Welcome The Rotoscopers!
…podcast, which usually runs about ninety minutes, consists of a news roundup, a nerdy mini-segment (that can cover anything from animation principles to industry history), and a main discussion where… |
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Disney documentary DVD exclusive offer!
…STREETDATE: November 30, 2010 Rated: PG Run Time: Approx. 86 minutes Video: Widescreen (1.78.1) Audio Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound DVD Subtitles: English SRP: 1-Disc DVD $29.99 THE BOYS: THE… |
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Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies
…feature compilations such as The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie and The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie. For me, this was the way I experienced many of the Looney Tunes… |
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Batman Beyond: Season Three
…focus on young Terry McGinnis. Somehow they avoided the temptation throughout the run of the show to show us a “Penguin of the future,” a “Killer Moth of the future,”… |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…industry recast the voice actors of characters on several cartoons, including long-running hits like The Simpsons and Family Guy [below]. Rather ironically, these choices were all made based on skin… |
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Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season Two
…initial season, the small band of rebels from the planet Lothal found their destiny, joining the larger group of rebel cells that was previously only known to them by rumours… |
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Archie and the Pussycats, plus Beowulf and TailSpin!
…ran from 1968 and was an instant ratings success, leading to several follow up series and spin offs. Now that initial run has been brought to disc in an Archie… |
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The Jungle Book arriving on Blu-ray August 30th
…Legato to discuss “The Jungle Book” and reflect on the years they devoted to the reimagining of this timeless tale. Discover how Rudyard Kipling’s original stories and the classic animated… |
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Back and "looking" better than ever! Plus Super Powers and Pirates!
…to keep an eye out (haha, stop laughing at the back!) for his latest review, The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, which packs in the final run of episodes featuring… |
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Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas
…do of rubber. The early promise of the sequence is hampered by the lower budget again: Santa’s Workshop never has the grandness or depth really required (though the overly-bombastic music… |
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My Friends Tigger And Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie
…a big goofy smile on my face even by the end of the first of my many run throughs – what can I say? It’s catchy! This opening sequence also… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero
…to develop feature-length films following the success of Chicken Run, Aardman decided to make their next project around their most popular characters in the cheese-loving inventor and his canine companion…. |
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Ratchet & Clank
…we’ve had a run of penguin movies, superheroes everywhere, just about every YA book getting an adaptation especially if there were multiple titles in a series, and way too many… |
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Only Yesterday
On July 20, 1991, Studio Ghibli released an adaptation of the manga Omoide Poro Poro by Hotaru Okamoto and Yuko Tone. Directed by Isao Takahata and recognized by westerners as… |
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Dragons: Race To The Edge
…great deal of personality in their expressions. Just watching Tuffnut and Ruffnut engaging in their antics and looking at their faces as they react with mischievous glee and delight is… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two
…MGM/UA Home Video gained a decent reputation for itself a number of extensive anthologies in the early 1990s, counting among them the collected works of Hugh Harmon and Rudy Ising’s… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…alternative version of why Tinkerbell becomes sick. Although these scenes only run less than a minute each, they’re a nice confirmation that the less expensive films still go through the… |
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More Peter & The Wolf, Madagascar 2 – and a quick catch-up!
…run up to the Academy Awards, if you wanted to check out what took away the prize last year, this disc does it all and more! We’re also able to… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…Disney-branded (and I include Pixar in that designation), then I haven’t been the best in keeping up with the recent rush of animated films in the past five years or… |
