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Frank Walsh: On set with Prince Caspian’s Final Battle
…another time. Now, that time has come to share with you all these amazing behind-the-scenes stories that make us realize today’s animation is not only about making animated features and… |
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Mary Poppins’ Richard M. Sherman: A Practically Perfect Songwriter!
…household, but brings the whole family together in the process. With its revolutionary blend of live action and pioneering Disney animation, Mary Poppins became an instant hit and was nominated… |
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LaserDisc Archives: A Primer On The LD Format
…indistinguishable from the Limited Edition DVD). Most importantly though, when it came to animation, laser fans were well served, and many of DVD’s initial issues were merely ports over from… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…on DVD, especially such behind-the-scenes documentaries as Chuck Jones: Extremes And Inbetweens, is the early MGM/UA issue of Bugs Bunny Superstar. A rarely seen, but excellent hybrid of animation, documentary… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Limited Issue
…the original way of creating animation, which finally came thanks to computer-assisted production where the artists’ refined drawings could be transferred and painted in the computer, allowing the best of… |
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Cars
Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures (June 9 2006), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (November 7 2006), single disc, 116 mins plus supplements, 2.39:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround EX, Rated… |
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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home – Winners Announced!
…discs, Animation for the Nation retrospective featurette, Illustrating the Times: how the show’s illustration and animation styles perfectly captured its era. Read our full review of the DVD here! Wait… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
…presentations in various movie and television outings, particularly his weekly TV anthology program which remains to this day to have taught me more about life, the world, animation and movies… |
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Transformers: 2-Disc Special Edition
…covered, from the broadest animation of the robots to the smallest minutiae, leading to an engrossing track that contains very few spaces. The need for the film to make big… |
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Pixar Shorts Collection Giveaway – Winner!
Pixar invites you to discover 13 highly entertaining computer animated shorts from the creative minds that brought you Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and many more. With revolutionary animation,… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…We all know Walt the animation innovator, as seen by way of cartoon compendiums featuring his merry menagerie of caricatured animals, from Oswald The Lucky Rabbit (concurrently released in this… |
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Get Enchanted with our behind the scenes exclusives!
…to many of the principal crew for a series of exclusive behind the scenes interviews, including composer Alan Menken, animation director James Baxter and the director of Enchanted himself, Kevin… |
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Disney/Pixar’s WALL-E: 3-Disc – Winner!
…word that it is safe to return home… On DVD, WALL-E‘s bonus features include Presto, Pixar Animation Studios original theatrical short about a star magician’s ego that provokes some clever… |
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EXCLUSIVE: It's here! Come tour the Disney Paris art exhibition!
…recommend it extremely highly for animation buffs and certainly propose a purchase of the exhibition catalog, which lists and visually represents every item in the collection…it’s a true “must-have”! The… |
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Aarrgghh! No more Disney Treasures!?
…“final round” approach and high animation content (the mainstays of the Treasures line). The decision, to my knowledge, can still be turned around, and the Golden Age Of Cartoons Forum… |
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Cinderella III review and director interview
…make for engrossing viewing. Sure, the animation isn’t as top notch as the 1950 classic, but Cinders III‘s intentions are in the right place and if you can make it… |
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Oscar-winner interview, Abrams' Trek, Laurel & Hardy's animated themes, and more Dinosaurs!
…as well as revealing Kove’s links with the National Film Board of Canada and her thoughts regarding her future in animation. Speaking days before she picked up her award, it’s… |
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Classic feature reviews, Pan deals, and more…
…Wizards. For you classic animation fans, we’ve a review concentrating on that period for the release of Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two and some more… |
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Hand-drawn back at Disney, and live-action Tintin is coming!
…will be made through their Pixar unit. John Lasseter, chief creative officer of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, said, “We are finally in production on Toy Story 3, adding the… |
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Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss on DVD
…at a screening a couple of months ago, is a charming little outing with primary character animation that’s as good as you would expect from a top-notch Disney animator. The… |
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Animated Bauer Power!
…that turned out! Produced by Flash animation content studio Icebox, the only drawback to all this is the length, with webisodes only running just over a minute in new content…. |
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Shrek makes it 600 million; plus Jolson sings again!
…– the very same guy who gave us all those wonderful animation LaserDisc sets back in the day and who continues to push for the release of classic titles including… |
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Little King and Bravestarr's best, plus hi-def gripes
…known the character in name and from a couple of images, I found this terrific release – the latest in Steve Stanchfield’s wonderful Thunderbean Animation anthologies – to pack in… |
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Big release Tuesday: Muppets, Darkwing and Tick!
…in the founding of that company, has announced his intention to distance himself from DreamWorks Animation SKG, selling off a “significant portion” (amounting to $150m) of DWA stock back to… |
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Romeo, Romeo…Sealed With A Kiss DVD Special!
…traditional animation alive. And we want to make a bit of a fuss about it! So first up, you can catch our own Josh Armstrong’s exclusive interview with Phil Nibbelink… |
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Aquaman swims again!
Our comic book animation geek Randall Cyrenne has gotten his feet wet with his latest DC Comics Classic Collection review for The Adventures Of Aquaman, a fun if slight little… |
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A pair o'Pixar reviews!
Proving just how great computer animation can be, I’ve just posted my take on Pixar’s absolutely terrific Ratatouille, which comes to disc with a superb transfer but very little else… |
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Awards, Neverland's composers, and a 2-disc for the Rat!?
We’re well into the awards season, with both the animation Annie Awards and the British BAFTAS being handed out over the weekend, and Ratatouille the big Feature Animation winner at… |
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What's New Scooby-Doo? The new Indy trailer, that's what!
…hard-core animation fan, so I have absolutely no hesitation in admitting that I’m “giddy as a schoolboy” after seeing the trailer for the latest adventure, The Kingdom Of The Crystal… |
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And the Academy Awards went to…; plus much more in our Oscars Special!
…Warner Bros. Academy Awards Animation Collection, a three-disc set comprising 15 actual winners and 26 nominated cartoon shorts. While image quality isn’t as fully restored as the sleeve may indicate,… |
