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Archie and the Pussycats, plus Beowulf and TailSpin!
…show. I figured it to be just another 1970s cartoon about funny teens, so I was pleasantly surprised to find how much I enjoyed it”. Rand points out the similarities… |
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Aquaman swims again!
…action show I remember enjoying weekday afternoons back in the day. True to my memories, Rand calls the show “old school, goofy comic book fun” with “an easy charm that,… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…this doc first time around in 2000, and it is a very valid supplement. My main gripe here is that it’s still only presented in letterboxed widescreen, meaning the cartoon… |
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Walt Disney Treasures…live again!
…format those interesting in hi-def should be focusing on now is clearer than ever and with Universal looking to be the only major studio still on the fence it’s only… |
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Batman, Pixar, Pooh…and Cinders two!
…Now then, on to today’s original post! Although I posted it during last week, I’ll point you in the direction of our Cinderella II: Dreams Come True review, which is… |
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Hobbits, Floyd Norman, Lone Ranger, Zorro, Moses…what a line-up!
…as clockwork is Jeremie Noyer’s latest interview, this time with Disney Legend Floyd Norman. This is a great discussion, folks, a lengthy look back at Floyd’s extensive career in animation… |
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The Ten Commandments
…that had the CGI wizards puzzled as how to make it look convincing. That issue has been overcome for a good few years now, but the water, if it can… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…this is another cartoon that might not work straight away on younger minds, but it’s certainly one that I’ve found more and more appreciation in as I’ve grown. It’s popped… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Platinum Edition
…is titled What’s My Crime?, while an often made mistake is that the cartoon they watch in captivity is a black and white version of Flowers And Trees – in… |
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Heaps of new DVD announcements; plus the new Splits!
…pricing is slightly more inviting at $35.99. • The Polar Express: Presented in 3D is just one of Warner’s upcoming double-dips. Featuring four sets of 3D glasses (it’s not clear… |
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Back to the Park, more Peanuts announcements…
…be hilarious. It’s my guilty pleasure, if you will, and there’s still much to enjoy in this latest boxed set of Stan, Cartman, Kyle and Kenny’s adventures, including the Imaginationland… |
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Eric Goldberg's Character Animation Crash Course book!
…copy of his new animation “how to”, Character Animation Crash Course. In fact, my mixing up autograph session times almost had me miss him altogether! Luckily, I was in the… |
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Back Under The Sea, plus Filmation's DC Super Heroes!
…cheat: apart from popping up in the into to the Justice League cartoons in the set, he’s actually absent from any of the stories, so if you’re a classic Aquafan… |
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Tweety and Sylvester back on DVD
…Tweety Mysteries, Warners’ 1990s repurposing of the classic Looney Tunes characters that follows them on some globe-trotting, crime-solving adventures with Granny. Like myself, Rand didn’t catch the show in its… |
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Yabba-dabba-doo-or-don't? The Complete Flintstones completely reviewed!
…proposition – even the much derided orange box really isn’t that offensive in actuality – but where the collection really drops the bowling ball is in the lack of any… |
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Christmas Contest: win The Little Mermaid II Special Edition – Winner!
…DVD Storybook, narrated by Jodi Benson. • Games & Activities: The Little Mermaid II Underwater Mer-Venture Challenge, Little Mermaid II Trivia and What Am I? Sea Creature games. • Sneak… |
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The Wild
…and sticks to its focus. Delightfully old school, fun and exciting in good measures, CORE’s feature is especially strong in its imagery, and perhaps expectedly so given the pedigree of… |
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More Peter & The Wolf, Madagascar 2 – and a quick catch-up!
…her. But she loved it, got very involved, and I must admit that I did too. It’s a very different telling to what we have seen before, but also very… |
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A Magic Gourd, Chipmunks, Madagascar's Nana and Wonder Woman? It's another packed post!
Well, do please excuse me…but after the excitement of the Academy Awards earlier this week I haven’t been able to find the time to drop in with my usual comments… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…to Yogi, who has gone into hiding so that another bear is chosen for the Zoo instead, but mistaken identities ensure that both Yogi’s pal Boo-Boo and Cindy think it… |
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Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
…as its centerpiece, the two CAV-disc Pinocchio film itself as well as an extra supplemental materials disc in its own sleeve. The set also included a 20-page booklet, which read… |
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Warner Archive: Captain Nemo And The Underwater City
…inclusion of the film’s original theatrical trailer, shown in 4:3 “fullframe” in pan and scan format, and satisfactory in presentation; a very welcome inclusion. If there’s one area where the… |
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Wild about Wild Things, Up, Sister Act and more!
…more than the numbers two to fifteen films in the chart did combined! This is also the fourth time in its release that it has hit the top spot internationally,… |
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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
…all in the name of good, old-fashioned fun, I guess— but I’m not eight years old anymore, and if the PG-13 rating is any indication, this wasn’t supposed to be… |
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Star Trek (2009)
…has gone beforeI didn’t even mind the Enterprise redesign – how do we know, in this alternate reality, that this is not how it was always supposed to look!? It… |
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The Care Bears Movie
…as ever. The movie is being released in standard 1.33:1 aspect ratio. Scratch Tracks: The Care Bears Movie is presented in Mono. It is not a bad mix, but it… |
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Superman: Ruby-Spears on their Man Of Steel
…interpreters having to translate in three different languages. They’d be answering before I’d get done with my question. It was the worst torture I ever had in my life! Q:… |
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Halo video game becomes animated disc debut
…Hiroshi Yamazaki (Karas), Toshiyuki Kanno (Black Lagoon), Koichi Mashimo (Blade of the Immortal) and Koji Sawai (Patlabor); directors/action designers Tomoki Kyoda (Eureka Seven, Evangelion 1.0) and Yasushi Muraki (Macross Plus,… |
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Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure Nintendo DS game – Winners Announced!
…platform synergy is indicative of how we are able to introduce compelling new ways to play every year.” Unique to this year’s game is the ability for players to create… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…broken up into individual sections. Leading the pack – in SD only – is the Pixar Production Tour, an introduction to the filmmakers of Monsters, Inc. (3:46). In Story, there’s… |

