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Sausage Party
…just a small piece of the film. Most of the movie is focused on skewering everything people care about! This movie is equal parts irreverent, pornographic, sacrilegious, and bigoted. Some… |
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Three Musketeers screen shots and DVD features review
…Disney movies, the movie itself, then some of the bonus features). This may seem like a dumbing-down of DVDs but the advantage to FastPlay is that by choosing the Main… |
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Batman: Year One
…the groundwork for whatever came next. Warner Premiere’s line of DC animated movies also takes its latest inspiration from Miller, with a direct adaptation of Batman: Year One. The PG-13… |
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Finding Dory
…in the years since, seven and twelve years after Nemo did it. Adjusted for inflation, the movie is still Pixar’s biggest box office winner. An incredible twelve of the studio’s… |
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Alice Through The Looking Glass
…If anything, the disappointing returns can probably be attributed to Disney waiting too long to release a follow-up, combined with the fact that releasing any movie over the busy Memorial… |
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Chicken Little enters stores today
The very first computer animated movie from Walt Disney Feature Animation, Chicken Little, enters stores today. Budgeted near $60 million, according to the Internet Movie Database, the film opened in… |
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Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
…of snowmen in history and film along with some trivia. While short, the featurette is entertaining and provides some interesting commentary on the history of snowmen. Case Study: The movie… |
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Animation supervisor Jamie Beard captures The Aventures of Tintin!
…Polanski soon entertained the idea of their own Tintin movie. Warner Bros. negotiated for the rights but lost, unable to promise the “creative integrity” previously offered by Spielberg. In 2001,… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…films. Too bad the sequel tosses most of these positive aspects out the window. We pick up soon after the first movie ends as the crew says their good-byes and… |
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CG Appleseed
…Japanese live action movie Ping Pong. The movie will be 100% computer animated, but will retain the 2D look of the original manga. 21-year-old actress Minowa Asumi will play the… |
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Godzilla: King Of The Monsters
…the movie is “bad,” because it isn’t. And I have no issue whatsoever when Godzilla films get a little ridiculous, because that’s part of their charm (particularly when it comes… |
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Pirates, Cars, Simpsons take People's Choice honors
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest nabbed an assortment of accolades at the 33rd annual People’s Choice Awards, held Tuesday night. The sequel won for “Movie,” “Movie drama,” “Male… |
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Mad: Season One, Part Two
…previous attempts (a 1970s animated special, an embarrassing 1980s movie, and an aborted Hanna-Barbera show) didn’t really stick, and the 1995 to 2008 live-action Fox series MADtv may have run… |
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Endgame drops the hammer with $350 million opening weekend, $1.2 billion worldwide
Avengers, assemble. Sometimes, it’s hard to know what words to use when a movie breaks box office records, but in the case of Avengers: Endgame, we can simply call what… |
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Disneynature: Earth
…thankfully there is never an overt attempt to turn this into a “message movie” and the environmental climate aspect is never labored over. With shooting times for these projects sometimes… |
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Sunset Boulevard: Centennial Collection
…and one that should be on the shelves of any serious movie buff, Paramount’s Sunset Boulevard: Centennial Collection is a classy edition of a must-have movie experience. Very highly recommended…. |
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Wonder Park’s $16 million opening beats expectations, but did it ride high enough?
Paramount and Nickelodeon’s Wonder Park finally reached movie screens this weekend after a bumpy and troubled production, earning an estimated $16 million, Box Office Mojo is reporting. That’s well above… |
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South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season
…when they saw their spoof episode, and the duo’s honest reaction to the 300 movie. Quite rightly, those expecting the “movie version” of Imaginationland to be included here will have… |
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Warner Archive: Captain Sindbad
…The disc’s included trailer plays up the action and excitement with a little too much emphasis on pushing the B-movie clichés: in actual fact, Captain Sindbad is a better movie… |
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Batman & Mr. Freeze: Subzero / Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm
…brought into the mix, and livens the movie up with his trademark homicidal glee. After Joker gets into the picture the movie picks up the pace and heightens the drama…. |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
…the most adult of the Pirates movies, with hangings, people getting shot in the head and sword deaths aplenty, all apparently within the PG-13 guidelines, but surely pushing an R… |
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A Christmas Carol
…an early November release date simple being too early to go and see a Christmas movie, my underlying disappointment with the motion-capture process (and let’s stop calling it performance capture… |
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The Art of Brave: an interview with author and Pixar story artist Jenny Lerew
Who better than the filmmakers could talk about all the art – and the heart – put into a movie? That’s the idea of some “Art of” books published these… |
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We’re off to see the Wizard!
Comments on the wonderful Wizard Of Oz box set, South Park’s movie on Blu-ray, plus Tezuka Osamu’s Astonishing Work reviewed! It’s ironic that I should be recommending a film over… |
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Rock & Rule: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
…to seek out those movies that might be considered “cult” titles. Currently, some 1980s cult animation films are getting some DVD love. We recently saw the release of the relatively… |
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Pom Poko
…that’s the great thing about watching films from overseas. When you plop an animated movie like Japan’s Pom Poko into your DVD player, you just know that you are not… |
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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection
…Animations to have W & G star in their own movie. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit’s 56 million dollar gross in the U.S./Canada market in 2005 was… |
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A Muppet Christmas: Letters To Santa
…from the voice cast of their next, Muppets From Space, though it still sustained some of the old style. More recent television movies (another Christmas special, It’s A Very Merry… |
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Fantastic Mr Fox
…rest of the movie, from its visual design to the music and editing. Over a long career that has only yielded a handful of films (Mr Fox is only Anderson’s… |
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Hotel Transylvania Production Designer Marcelo Vignali’s “Suite” Time!
…the Production Designer of Hotel Transylvania, he not only designed Dracula’s place, but the whole world of the movie – a monstrous achievement, no doubt about it! Animated Views: You… |
