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Spidey Vs…?
The Hollywood Reporter announces that the fourth Spider-Man movie under Sam Raimi has hit another stumbling block after the director and the producing studio Sony couldn’t agree on which villains… |
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Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas
…back to celebrate the festive season with The Man With The Yellow Hat. The Sweatbox Review: Although Disney’s well-promoted release of The Princess And The Frog has done well to… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…Schneider, providing some context of the times in which these cartoons were released, and exploring many of the themes that support the “uncensored” label of this collection. Many of their… |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
…but Jason Schwartzman’s character was too distant to ever really connect with and the film was more notable for finally outing Bill Murray as an actor of note. Anderson’s next,… |
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Tombstone
…put his legendary lawman days behind him and undertook a brief nomadic existence until settling in California, where he became embroiled in the then-fledgling movie business, making friends with such… |
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Armageddon
…in the emerging “disaster movie” genre. It’s fair to say that many of the early entries in the genre were actually decent, well-made and performed films. True, the likes of… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 5
…Review: The end of X-Men: The Animated Series in September 1997 was kind of the end of an era for fans of the show. From its premiere in 1992, many… |
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Super Friends: Season One, Volume Two
…only to be taken prisoner on Earth by a man who wishes to exploit them. Fantastic FRERPs – The titles keep getting better, but a FRERP is really just an… |
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Batman: Under The Red Hood
…to the comic book well. They chose a best-selling storyline with DC’s two biggest stars, Superman and Batman. Unfortunately, though Superman/Batman: Public Enemies might have been a sales success in… |
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“How much are you asking for, Dave?” – Kubrick auction item goes ape!
A little off our beaten track but too exciting to pass over: the specialist film and entertainment arm of auctioneer Bonhams is set to welcome bids on an ultra-rare ape-man… |
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The Black Cauldron: 25th Anniversary Edition
…knight, and the many weird and wonderful friends and creatures he meets on the way to the Horned King’s lair, for a final confrontation where he must prove himself a… |
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Bill Plympton returns!
Bill Plympton, the celebrated cartoonist and Oscar-nominated director, has announced the exclusive engagement of his Terry Gilliam sponsored animated feature Idiots And Angels, a black comedy about a man’s battle… |
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Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
…legendary Woodsman. The Sweatbox Review: Summer camp has been an American rite of passage for generations. When a kid is old enough to go to camp, it signifies the beginning… |
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Thundarr The Barbarian: The Complete Series
…live as poor wretches subject to the power struggles of sorcerers and various mutant gangs. One man breaks his chains and stands up to this tyranny, and that man is… |
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Jon Favreau heading for The Magic Kingdom
In what would seem to be an official greenlight for a project that’s been long-rumored at the studio, Disney has hired Iron Man director/actor Jon Favreau to helm their Magic… |
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Legends Of The Superheroes
…show have been getting sold at comic conventions for many years, alongside Corman’s Fantastic Four and episodes of Mr. Terrific. For those who haven’t seen it, though, you can now… |
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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
…collection gathers both efforts, with many caveats… The Sweatbox Review: “Fantasia will amaze-ya” suggested the publicity for one of the film’s many releases over the years, but going by some… |
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Stop-Motion Marvels!
…Another fanciful everyman was created for the series Chip The Wooden Man. Chip’s six shorts run a total of just under 17 minutes, as we see him encounter wooden soldiers,… |
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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…close to nature. The other similarity is that both these “princess” films are absolutely terrific. Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind appeared first as a serialized manga (Japanese comic… |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…and CG technology being what it is, we were most excited when it was announced Bridges would be playing himself as seen in the original movie. In many ways it’s… |
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Dumbo finally on Blu-ray for 70th Anniversary!
After much teasing on Disney home video releases in the last 18 months, and an HD release in many other countries around the world already, Walt Disney’s Dumbo has finally… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season Two, Part One
…Man’s family, including none other than Baby Plas (he’s got the duds, but exhibits no powers), and baby’s mother, Ramona— hey, what happened to Penny? Kite Man and Rubberface aim… |
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Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil
…Perhaps the Weinsteins saw themselves providing something to fill the gap in the wake of Shrek’s happily ever after, but with so many fairytale comedy knock-offs, the Hoodwinked that originally… |
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Aesop’s Fables: Volumes 1 & 2
…they didn’t even make sense half the time. Some are clever, but others are baffling. Examples include, “An oyster is a fish dressed up like a nut,” and, “Many a… |
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Popeye returning to the big screen
…writers Jay Scherick and David Ronn penning the script. “Popeye has been my childhood favorite character,” said Spider-Manmovie producer Avi Arad. “To me he was always the everyday man who… |
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Puss In Boots: composer Henry Jackman’s Spanish Hour
…threatens the world. To provide music to suit the character of the swaggering Puss and the voices of arch-Latino Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek, composer Henry Jackman used the folk… |
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Lady and the Tramp’s Peggy Lee on the right side of the (sound)tracks!
…Repertoire man at Decca where, at the time, Peggy was under contract. Peggy has recalled many times how much she enjoyed working with Sonny on creating the songs for the… |
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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…DVDs, the nine-minute Tunes featurette Wacky Warner One-Shots is perhaps the most unique on this disc, looking at the many cartoons that told a story without the intention of branching… |
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Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax: Deluxe Edition
…it was in 1971. Geisel was not anti-development, or anti-business; he was just anti-stupid. The Once-ler is not a “villain” because he is a businessman; he is simply a man… |
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Mad: Season One, Part Two
…– the original “What, me worry?” kid – Alfred E. Neuman. Created by Bill Gaines and Harvey Kurtzman as an antidote to their own brand of pulp horror comics that… |
