|
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…A Day At The Beach, The Captain’s Christmas, Seal Skinners and Mama’s New Hat. Looking back on the classic days of cartoons back at Warner Bros, Toon Heads: The Lost… |
|
The Flintstones Prime-Time Specials Collection: Volume 1
…Two discs have been released, collecting a few of these specials, and the first disc is the subject of this review. The first Flintstones special (A Flintstone Christmas from 1977)… |
|
Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition
…green man approach perfectly compliments Crystal’s manic twenty-words-a-second delivery, and the whole Randall design (a very Tim Burton-Nightmare Before Christmas look here, I felt) makes your skin crawl – just… |
|
The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…of Mickey’s Christmas Carol) on the final credits, it was Musker and Clements that had found Eve Titus and Paul Galdone’s Basil Of Baker Street children’s books, a mouse take… |
|
|
Pixar leads this week’s CG pack; plus a Fantastic Fox!
November 12, 2009 — Reviews for Fantastic Mr Fox, Ice Age 3, Cars, Peanuts and Tinker Bell, plus Zemeckis and Carrey on their Christmas Carol! It’s something of a CG… |
|
Happy New Year and all the best for 2010!
…creep up on you, it’s actually quite nice to start receiving some more practical gifts for Christmas, and this year apart from a usual selection of asked-for books and discs,… |
|
The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…motion-captured films produced by Spielberg’s one-time protégé Robert Zemeckis. But whereas Zemeckis’ films (Polar Express, Beowulf and A Christmas Carol among them) simply transposed his mo-cap suited actors’ movements to… |
|
|
Archie and the Pussycats, plus Beowulf and TailSpin!
…Contact ten years ago. There were good tricks and performances in Cast Away and What Lies Beneath, but The Polar Express is such an emotionally cold Christmas fable that it’s… |
|
|
Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…The Nightmare Before Christmas. You could buy it for the cost of a small house! The Halloweentown model promotes the upcoming Blu-ray release of The Nightmare Before Christmas James: With… |
|
He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…is actually a gem. He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown isn’t quite the classic that A Charlie Brown Christmas is— what is, after all?— but it stands tall as an entertaining… |
|
|
Shrek Forever After coming to DVD and Blu-Ray in December
…movies on Blu-Ray. Both releases, for a limited time, will feature Donkey’s Christmas Shrektacular, a brand new animated short featuring “all of the characters from the franchise” singing Christmas carols…. |
|
|
Batman, Pixar, Pooh…and Cinders two!
…good for a laugh – like many I didn’t find much magic to write about – though it continues our quest of completing our backlog of pre-Christmas releases that we’re… |
|
Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
…line-up, but the direct-to-video sequels weren’t. First there was Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, then came Belle’s Magical World. The Enchanted Christmas entertained the younger crowds and explored… |
|
|
Beowulf: Director’s Cut
…film for it only to work with a gimmick? Zemeckis seems hell bent on perfecting this strand of mo-cap: next up is A Christmas Carol, with Jim Carrey playing everyone… |
|
Peanuts: 1970’s Collection Volume 1
…a speech. The kid just doesn’t learn. After showing so much promise in A Charlie Brown Christmas, Linus really came to become less reliable as the voice of reason. The… |
|
|
More Nightmares, plus is The Chosen One worth choosing?
It’s a little early in the year, but tomorrow Tim Burton’s ultimate bad dream, The Nightmare Before Christmas finally comes to DVD and Blu-ray in the kind of collector’s package… |
|
|
Return To The Sea (again), plus Dr Horrible and another Nutty Professor…
…deleted song – shortly, but in the meantime, we’ve a copy to give away to one winning name in our Little Mermaid II contest! We’ve gone Christmas Contest crazy: also… |
|
|
Back to the Park, more Peanuts announcements…
…bonus episode); and A Charlie Brown Christmas (another Emmy winner in which Charlie directs the school play, again with a new featurette, two downloadable songs and a bonus episode). Before… |
|
The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…informs. They’re not all great: The Fright Before Christmas is simply an extract from the albeit well-animated Bugs Bunny’s Looney Christmas Tales television special that features the Tasmanian Devil, and… |
|
|
Stop-motion gets animated in NYC tonight!
…Christmas, Corpse Bride, James and the Giant Peach). Aurelio Voltaire, a filmmaker firmly entrenched in the world of dark, puppet animation takes us on a little tour of the genre… |
|
The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…joined by those of Dave Michener and Studio veteran Burny Mattinson (also director of Mickey’s Christmas Carol) on the final credits, it was Musker and Clements that had found Eve… |
|
Toy Story / Toy Story 2: Special Editions
…And The Beast and Aladdin had made animation cool again, and The Nightmare Before Christmas showed the Studio was also interested in pushing boundaries. Pixar already had an association –… |
|
|
At the movies: Klaatu, Julien, Despereaux, a Transporter, Bolt and Delgo!
…even more intrigued…who’da thunk it!? Also new today is the first of our Christmas Contests which we’ll be running from now until the holiday break. Coming on December 19 from… |
|
Lady And The Tramp
…Peter Pan within the first three years of the decade, and added to this was Walt’s move into television, spearheaded by a Wonderland Christmas special, followed by The Mickey Mouse… |
|
|
Arthur Rankin Jr. of Rankin/Bass Productions passes away
…watched Christmas special of all time. This was followed by similar successes, including 1969’s Frosty the Snowman and 1970’s Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, which featured the voice talents… |
|
|
Gay Purr-ee
…classic TV staple Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, and the feature films Mr. Magoo’s 1001 Arabian Nights (directed by another ex-Disney crew member Jack Kinney in 1959) and, of course, Gay… |
|
|
Nightmare to receive 2-disc sountrack this October
In conjunction with the October 20th re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas, a 2-disc sountrack for the film will enter stores on October 24th. While the first disc of the… |
|
|
Aardman, Sony begin production on two new films
According to Animation World Network, Aardman has begun the production process on their next two animated feature films, Pirates! and Aurthur Christmas. Though Pirates! will be animated in Aardman’s traditional… |
|
|
A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Documentary)
…dozens of Charlie Brown TV specials and movies that followed, starting with A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965. That special, of course, was also the television public’s first glimpse of… |
|
|
Bolt on DVD & BD: One Super-Director + One Super-Voice Make One Super Rhino!
…Iron Giant. I also love it when they create a world that I believe in and want to explore, like in Finding Nemo and The Nightmare Before Christmas. I could… |
