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… |
Bambi II: Special Edition
DisneyToon Studios (February 7 2006), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (August 23 2011), 1 Blu-ray Disc and 1 DVD, 73 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.78:1 widescreen, 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio,… |
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
…air after seeing poor Toth’s work mangled for so many years. Aquaman maybe benefited the most, looking much more rugged with messy hair rather than the dated wavy hair he… |
Bolt: Joe Moshier – one bold, Bolt designer!
…a rough inbetweener at Disney for maybe two weeks or so. At the time, Tony Fucile and James Baxter were designing all the characters. They were kind of running out… |
Valley Of The Dinosaurs: The Complete Series
…competing with one of their own shows, with Devlin being run at the same time on ABC. Meanwhile, H-B’s prehistoric live action show Korg, 70,000 BC failed to click with… |
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,”… |
Exclusive news on DreamWorks at Comic-Con!
…Academy Award-winning shorts is also Aardman Animations’ follow-up to the critically acclaimed Chicken Run. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, written and directed by Mamoru Oshii, is the anticipated sequel… |
Peanuts Double Feature: A Boy Named Charlie Brown & Snoopy, Come Home
…got something right. Of course this couldn’t be a Charlie Brown story if it ended there. That would ruin the whole character, and he still had another few decades of… |
A Bug’s Life: Collector’s Edition
…found in Toy Story in terms of the texture of the characters where many characters had a rubbery-looking complexion (granted most of them were toys). While some characters, particularly the… |
All*Star Superman
Warner Bros. (2011), Warner Home Video (February 22, 2011), Blu-ray + DVD, 76 mins plus supplements, 16:9 ratio, DTS HD Master Audio, Rated PG, Retail: $24.98 Storyboard: Lex Luthor believes… |
The Invincible Iron Man
…Johnson’s screenplay opens with a scene taking place in China, where a ruins excavation is encountering production delays due to the interference of a gang known as the Jade Dragons…. |
1 week to the London International Animation Festival
…Other Cinema 11 Rupert St, Soho Whether it is an up to date snapshot of recently released animation or retrospectives and themed programmes, the LIAF line-up is your window on… |
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
…stupid bald-headed kid finally got something right. Of course this couldn’t be a Charlie Brown story if it ended there. That would ruin the whole character, and he still had… |
Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part One
…is exactly the Batman of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. The title of the show is itself a reference to a long-running Batman team-up comic book which concluded its run… |
Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities
…Geisel/Seuss’ Whoville designs and wordplay to the limited animation style that UPA would make their own. Each running just over a minute, we’re offered four samples here. Animated Theatrical Commercials… |
Nextoons: The NickToons Film Festival Announces Festival Judges
…franchises, Hamill was the voice of the Joker for the 13-year run of the animated TV series including the features Mask of the Phantasm and The Return of the Joker… |
Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman
…latest plot, Batman tries to discover the identity of the mysterious Batwoman. The Sweatbox Review: Even as fans hear rumors of the newest (and hopefully better than the last) big… |
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?: The Complete First and Second Seasons
…never too tough to solve. In fact, in most episodes, there was only one suspect introduced! Occasionally, the writers (mostly Joe Ruby and Ken Spears) would throw out a red… |
A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 1
…a comedy. For more serious stories, there was Filmation’s The Hardy Boys that same fall on ABC. This show, based on the long-running juvenile book series, also had what may… |
The WB holiday slate
…time in high definition. On Thursday, December 9 at at 8pm ET, comes \\Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer\\. Based on the song by Elmo and Patsy, the show… |
Upcoming CBS animated specials
A holiday tradition continues this week when the CBS television network begins airing its holiday animated specials. First up is the 40th anniversary broadcast of \\Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer\\ on… |
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… |
And the Oscar nominations are…
…on scooping runner up places based on their Hollywood connections. Never mind that both those movies were little more than motion-capture exercises to a large extent…just feel the names, such… |
2010 Oscar nominations, Up up for Best Picture
…International), An Inosan Production, Israel • El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Sony Pictures Classics), A Haddock Films Production, Argentina • The Milk of Sorrow, A Wanda Visión/Oberon Cinematogrà/Vela Production, Peru… |
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… |
The Prince Of Egypt: Signature Selection
…using the hieroglyphic paintings of the palace walls, is one memorable highlight. The only disappointment with the movie was its running time. I thought the mid-section could have possibly been… |
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… |
WALL•E: Animator Victor Navone gives soul to a bot, and Cars a Toon-up!
…as the Rubik’s Cube), their sitting on a bench at sunset, WALL•E’s space walk with the extinguisher and his being repaired by EVE back on Earth, among others! An impressive… |
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… |
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… |