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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure: Ellen Jin Over on art directing Pixie Dust and Art Nouveau!

…Zealand to train their background painting departments. After a highly successful stint creating and training the digital background painting departments, she returned to the states to join Mike Young Productions…

Grave Of The Fireflies: Collector’s Series

…more moving or humane than this. The response on your first viewing may very well shock you, no matter how I try to prepare you. This is a film to

The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit

…apparatus. Thunderbirds fans will also enjoy a musical reference to that series as Wallace uses a ridiculously complex means to get onto his motorcycle. A trip to the moon, foiling…

Whisper Of The Heart

…The Microphone (8:00) shows off the English voice cast, and is typical of what one would expect. The first disc also has Trailer And TV Spots (10:45)— enough that they…

The Legend Of Prince Valiant: Complete Series, Vol. One

…be able to train to become a knight of the round Table, which could allow him to restore his father to the throne of Thule. Having not read up on…

The Fox And The Hound 2

…Really, who would care? With all the stories left to be told about Basil Of Baker Street or The Rescue Aid Society, why would Disney choose to bring back Copper…

Darkwing Duck: Volume 2

…out of the terrific success of DuckTales and Chip ‘N Dale’s Rescue Rangers, Disney decided to add a superhero flavor to their latest adventure program. To help ensure the show’s…

The Muppet Show: Season Three

…And Paint: The transfers for this show remain absolutely stellar. I continue to be amazed with how good this show looks on DVD. The detail is remarkable, as you can…

Batman: Gotham Knight (Blu-ray/DVD)

…and how others perceive him. The Sweatbox Review: Okay, is it possible to review this direct-to-video feature without mentioning The Animatrix? Shoot, too late. Alrighty, then… Just like The Animatrix…

Popeye The Sailor: Volume 2 1938-1940

to cowboys who look like Bluto. Onion Pacific sees Popeye and Bluto racing in a competition to see whose train gets the state franchise. Wimmin Is A Myskery introduces the…

Tinker Bell

to go to The Mainland, which she sees as a crushing disappointment. This leads to her decision to become a different type of fairy, but this tactic is greeted by…

Schoolhouse Rock!: Special 30th Anniversary Edition

to smile with his happiness. The show’s popularity even caused it to be spoofed on The Simpsons. I’m Gonna Send Your Vote To College “I’m Gonna Send Your Vote to

Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up

…surfers connected to our movie and got us to be able to interview all these guys. They took us out – Ash, Chris and myself – to Seal Beach for…

A Conversation with Eric Goldberg

…and then it peeked its way into the Top 10, which is unusual, for something to work its way up into the Top 10. So, back to Pocahontas. What are…

Deja and Henn on the return of The Goof!

…At this time, what appears to be the length of How To Hook Up Your Home Theater? An old-school seven or eight minutes? AD: They’re trying to do “short” shorts,…

Dalmatians 101: “Spot”-light on songwriter Mel Leven

…go to Hollywood and see what we can do?” And that’s what happened. AV: Why did they choose to go to L.A. rather than to New York, which was also…

Frank Walsh: Setting The World of Narnia

…dug out, and regressing the bottom in the hottest part of the summer. The whole lot having to be returned to normal after filming. Importing over 18,000 individual plants into

Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron

to “clean up” the picture, and everything looks bold and strong. Although a (terrible) pan-and-scan 1.33:1 edition is being sold separately, you really owe it to yourself to see this…

The Jungle Book 2

…which was basically initiated to bring low-budget feature-length movies to the big screen? They were off to a good start with the DuckTales and Goofy movies, but seem to have…

The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Three

…honest they are not terribly missed. It will, however, be very interesting to see how Tom and Jerry continue to make it to DVD. As we’ve seen with the Looney…

Walt: The Man Behind The Myth

…shot by Walt himself. Unfortunately these too have been cropped to fit the 1.66:1 ratio as opposed to “windowboxing” these clips to shrink them down inside the wider frame, as…

Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two

…Takes A Trip is the often seen film in which Mickey and Pluto have to dupe Pete the conductor when Mickey tries to smuggle Pluto onto a train. A harmless…

The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition

…perhaps too much of a departure for the company: too dark, too adult and too risky. As Finding Nemo was perceived the year before and Cars is sure to do…

The Complete Adventures Of The Little King

…railway train sequence opening, the cartoon resorts to the usual generic plotting suggested by Old West situations, though uniquely all sides are seen to be friendly to each other and…

Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition

…run together for a close-to 16 minute total. Alice The Toreador is an earlier 1925 Virginia Davis effort, with more of a starring role for Alice before she became sidelined…

Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit

…I was already well trained in what to expect, but even then there are some moments that bring a huge smile or are guaranteed to pop your eyes out at…

The AristoCats: Special Edition

…as with One Hundred And One Dalmatians’ title switch to the easier to read ADD moniker 101 Dalmatians, the title here seems to have been blanded out too, going for…

Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death

…the cereal killer is on the prowl with a grudge to bear for the town’s bakers, a situation not bringing any less danger to our heroes when Wallace begins to

Oscar interviews, site updates and new reviews!

…the bizarrely unsuccessful train-wreck Cool World. Good news to report today in that DreamWorks/Aardman’s Flushed Away has jumped in as the number one selling DVD this week, beating out Oscar-winner…

Peter Pan: Platinum Edition

top of their game. What’s most effective is the feeling of weightlessness they are able to infuse into their essentially weightless drawings. How does an animated character fly without seeming…