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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…place to dwell. Astonished to find him alive, she runs – literally – into Simba, and with Rafiki the old witch-doctor’s help, convinces the lion to return to the Pride… |
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The Lion King 1½
…endeavour, from the outset, appears to be little more than the original film run through with “optional visual commentary”, like Men In Black’s on-screen DVD diagram device, added to the… |
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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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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… |
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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… |
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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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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 2
…is overlong, coming over at times like a football run-through for the later Space Jam movie, while a show I remember from the original airings is Dating, Acme Acres Style,… |
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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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DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures
…running the gamut from the usual giant bugs and robots, to dinosaurs (every cartoon hero of the 1960s had to have a dino encounter!) and wannabe world-conquering aliens, and there… |
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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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Nexus Gets Animated
AWN has an article about Comic book artist Steve Rude’s animated project Nexus. After 16 years, Rude finally managed to put together a promotional DVD that will be presented an… |
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The Swan Princess Lasts Far Longer Than Forever with Director Richard Rich
…we had that speech he gives after Rothbart’s been shot, and he runs back to Odette and he tells her about how good and how compassionate she is, and her… |
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Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…the aforementioned final release version of The Princess And The Cobbler, which is what unfortunately became of Richard Williams’ masterpiece to-be before it was completed by other hands, ruined and… |
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Rockin’ With Judy Jetson
…sufficiently impressed to agree to perform the song later at his concert. However, after receiving the lyrics from Judy, he has a run-in with two henchmen of Felonia Funk, and… |
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Trolls World Tour
…which have chosen to delay the theatrical runs of their would-be blockbusters, Universal decided to skip that route entirely, choosing to release the follow-up straight-to-streaming as a digital rental. This… |
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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… |
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Father of the Pride images and review
…that Father of the Pride can turn into another long-running comedy series in the same vein as The Simpsons, since it does not have as broad of a focus and… |
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Looking at the Critical Role animated Kickstarter campaign with Sam Riegel
…cartoon to accompany it. We jumped at the idea, not knowing at the time that it would be the first test-run at making our dream animated series come true. Critical… |
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Mulan II
…not reaching, Feature Animation standard, and a running time which surpasses the usual 66-minute length that places such endeavours firmly in the destined-for-TV movie category. With that longer run time,… |
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Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?
…including dramatic live-action, musicals, animation (including, of course, Zemeckis’ Roger Rabbit pal Richard Williams’ version and Disney’s own Mickey-take) and even an all-around applauded Muppets movie. Now rubber face Carrey… |
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Critical Role Art Exhibition and Live Show
…However, it’s popular use did mean that the Critical Role gallery would only have a small window to be displayed, running from January 18 through 20. So that fans would… |
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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…a consummate thrill-ride, and just how does Tom Cruise and Chris McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible run keep getting better and more layered with each new outing!? I can’t wait for the… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…Likewise he has great fun chewing up the scenery as Schnitzler, the German mastermind behind the crazed plot. Jumping in at the deep end on the female voices, Nicola Russell’s… |
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Henry Selick talks Moongirl and more
…both. We’re running tests and crunching numbers. AV:Can you tell us a little about the origin, the genesis, of Moongirl? HS: There had been a contest at the studio for… |
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Dream On, Silly Dreamer
…runaway success of The Lion King would have on them. Other studios observed this lucrative resurrection of animation and, needless to say, they wanted a piece of the pie, too…. |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…that had seen a theatrical feature emerge as something of a series capper for the original run, which ended in the same year, 1966. A year later, Hanna-Barbera teamed again… |
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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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Darkwing Duck: Volume 2
…on this set, which were episodes 28-37 by airdate order, the production numbers run 27, 23, 41, 46, 43, 55, 42, 49, 26, and 20. To make things more confusing,… |
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The Tick Vs. Season Two
…is especially unfortunate, since it means we never see how the face of the moon was altered (again) in the series’ longest-running continuity sight gag. However, there are still twelve… |
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Wonder Woman
…these needed to be addressed for Wonder Woman as their film plays much better. The two-and-a-half hour runtime doesn’t feel too long and the narrative flows in a cohesive manner…. |
