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Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition

…in common. Though the ending fragments of the film had been thought to have been lost to time, a handful of the rest of the 56 Alice Comedies themselves have…

Sonic Underground: Volume 1 – Winners Announced!

…doesn’t want to meet her children at the wrong time, thus altering the fate of her family – but only when the prophecy is fulfilled can the planet Mobius return

Disney Channel Giveaway – Winner Announced!

…readers. Prizes are non-transferable and no cash alternative will be offered. No responsibility is accepted for inaccurate prize descriptions provided to us at the time we go to press. The

Sleeping Beauty Film Facts

Celebrating the return of one of Disney’s most lavish animated motion pictures, Sleeping Beauty, to DVD and, for the first time, high-definition Blu-ray, we’ve been provided with these fascinating Film…

Disney/Pixar’s WALL-E: 3-Disc – Winner!

…premiere of The Pixar Story, a documentary by Leslie Iwerks. The first in-depth look at the most influential animation studio of its time, The Pixar Story goes behind the scenes…

Ratatouille, Tinker Bell problems?; NIMH DVD!

…and unexpected bonus features, and it seems they’re prepared to do the same for their MGM pickups. Of course, this comes after decent sales of their other Bluth property, the

Aarrgghh! No more Disney Treasures!?

…Certainly the series was off to a very Treasures start with the True Life Adventures, and we have even better to follow in the form of the return of Oswald,…

Oscar interviews, site updates and new reviews!

…keep DreamWorks Animation out of the red for their fourth quarter profits, blaming the hit on the box office performance of Flushed Away last year, so that the DVD seems…

Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition

…On their annual trek across the white wilderness, Memphis the Emperor Penguin stumbles in the snow and loses hold of the egg he is protecting. When the egg hatches, out…

Goofy's new animators spill the beans; plus dancing penguins and other new reviews

…– he of the perfect Hans Conried, Deems Taylor and Walt himself – is taking on narrator chores for Home Theater, meaning that he should sound dead on and be…

Peter Pan's color catastrophe; and cropped Disney features

…I love the film, the DVD left me wishing it had “never-never happened”), I touched upon the poor restoration of the image, including comments on the lack of sharpness and…

We need your help!

of Goofy to theaters in a brand new short – the first of many we hope – coming out later in the year, titled How To Hook Up Your Home…

Uh-oh: more Happy Feet? …and: excited about this year's TV pickups?

…geeks (me included!) are taken care of with the renewal of Smallville and the took time to grow on me Heroes. Unlike Lost, which has truly jumped the shark, I…

Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection

…honest handling of these situations. One can hardly blame The Wolf! Several of the Droopy cartoons have the little dog out west, but Tex returns to the police chase for…

The pirate movie that's no crime…

…battle especially) there are no other big creature moments, something that felt lacking after the power of the Kraken sequences in the last film (the end of which is explained…

American Legends (featuring John Henry)

…and reproduced cleanly, with the John Henry music score energetic, forthright and the highlight of the entire program. The exuberance of the cast’s performance is an asset to the film,…

Lee a marvel at Mouse House?; Disney Songbook comes to London

…in his Meltdown music and arts program (16-23 June). The Forest Of No Return concert will have “master of the tributes” Hal Willner presenting the Vintage Disney Songbook, featuring Cocker…

Jack Sparrow's Pirates in space?

…originality of the first. My only hope is that they throw in the ghost of Blackbeard as a true sort of scary phantom that the series has so far been…

More Transformers; Frog villain cast; DVD sales and more!

Phew! I’m back from my Film Festival adventure – the movie cans are back at the studio, the foyer props back in storage and the guests back in their boxes…

Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume Two

…one marks the return of the playful baby seal that cropped up throughout the Mickey and Pluto cartoons, so you can imagine the kind of japes the pair get themselves…

Popeye (live-action movie)

…Popeye’s arms and the undoubtedly impressive realisation of Sweethaven, to the tiniest of touches, like the state of Wimpy’s hamburgers and background touches like the askew painting of the sea…

Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities

…With Kate, 1:20), these short shorts display all the hallmarks of the work of Cartoon Films, the company set up by Ub Iwerks, and until the hard sell comes out…

The Tick returns! Plus yay or nay for TransFormers Bay?

We kick off today with the return of the big blue bug of justice: Rand Cyrenne’s review of the recent The Tick Vs Season Two – twelve more episodes from…

Looney replacements; New reviews: Darkwing and TMNT!

…for pointing out the good news! Now then, we’ve a couple of new reviews as promised, the first for the release of the latest from the Disney Afternoon series Darkwing…

Space Ghost, Dino Boy and the great animation DVD summer!

…also play the review catch up game! Somehow, I don’t think Rand would have enjoyed it if we’d swapped on those two titles! Speaking of which, his review for Popeye:…

Spooky! Doomsday, Mickey reviews and Pixar contests!

…a review of an older Disney title, Mickey’s House Of Villains, the 2002 compilation that sees the rogues’ gallery of badduns taking over ToonTown’s House Of Mouse nightclub. This was…

A pair o'Pixar reviews!

…to get excited about. I enjoyed the first half of the new Your Friend The Rat short, but it’s true to say that in all the excitement over the fact…

Back and "looking" better than ever! Plus Super Powers and Pirates!

the “level of sophistication that would be seen in the DC shows of the 1990s and 2000s”, adding that “the Super Friends end their long television run on a relatively…

Ho-ho-ho! Season's Greetings, an' all that jazz!

…continuation one of the few titles we have alternative reviews for…and we ended both liking it! Naturally, this should tell you something about the overall quality of the film, which…

Oscars, Richard Sherman, SuperFriends and more – it's another packed Monday!

…As a sort-of fan of the show back in the day, I never realised that there were so many permutations of the program and that it went through so many…