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Douglas Gresham and Trevor Goring: Back Into The Narnia Wardrobe!
…that as the co-producer of the new Disney and Walden Media movies that are being produced. After the success of the first in the franchise, The Lion, the Witch and… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…on the evil side…so I’m assuming having Oogie was there to expand things, but to also take the edge off of Jack. HS: Oogie started out as the size of… |
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Ariel’s Song: Glenn Slater, a sparkling lyricist for The Little Mermaid on Broadway!
…from there. AV: How were the storylines and the book of the show developed? GS: Well, at the time, there was a different director and a different book writer. There… |
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Despereaux: Olivier Adam discusses a European tail!
…term of drawing, perspective, animation plus all the information relative to the scene planning and the treatment of the special effects. This step in the making of an animation movie… |
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Peter de Sève: the time of his life designing A Bug’s Life
…the way the characters are portrayed and written. So, they would contact me and give me a general outline. Not the manuscript, not the screenplay, but the outline of the… |
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The Great Mouse Detective
…of the best “these-are-my-dastardly-deeds-and-now-I’m-going-one-better” villain’s songs. The rest of the score is very magical and a direct cue from the John Williams fantasy sound, while the smattering of songs do… |
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LaserDisc Archives: A Primer On The LD Format
…finding that they may be missing out, especially with some of the recent releases on DVD, which don’t always carry over some of the “secondary” content (The Lion King, Alice… |
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Cats Don’t Dance
…can sizzle with the best of ’em – just check out the flooding of the soundstage scene! The video is pleasingly strong, free of colour bleed, and with good overall… |
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Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition
…Story was a large segment of an episode that looked at the making of the Sleeping Beauty film. The Tchaikovsky segment (the link being that the music to the film… |
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Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron
…situations along the way, until they meet again the Cavalry colonel, who has been pursuing them… The Sweatbox Review: DreamWorks’ Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron was a strange experience for… |
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The Dad Behind The Myth: An Interview With Walt Disney’s Daughter Diane
…down for their [Walt and Lilly’s] anniversary party the night before the opening of DisneyLand. They had it on the big Mark Twain riverboat with all their friends, and it… |
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Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland
…the backgrounds are extremely lavish, and there are moments of great animation. An experiment to meld the best of the western artists with Japanese animators, Little Nemo has an odd… |
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The Rescuers
…in the mouse world (the Mickey Mouse watch used as a clock on the wall of the Rescue Aid Society, which resides in the basement of the United Nations, for… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two
…Happy Harmonies, five volumes of the pre-1948 Golden Age Of Looney Tunes, an entire set dedicated to the genius of Tex Avery and, of course, the celebrated team of Thomas,… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume One
…the print for the documentary, but they still come across as having all of their energy. The film covers everything, from the early cartoons, and their developing of the boys’… |
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Cool World
…cartoons of the time. Although Roger Rabbit sparked the toon boom, it was the critical and commercial success of Beauty And The Beast and The Lion King that really put… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…standards (witness the attempt to imitate their classic Baloo The Bear in The Jungle Book with the faded impression of the same character in the recent sequel). The “Doctor Frankenollie”… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Two
…of the year is doomed to fail. There are none of the zip and spark in the characters, but the delivery, and certainly the look of the short is very… |
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Shark Tale
…catching the spectacular adventures of The Incredibles, the sheer aggressiveness of the mass-market friendly and very commercially-minded animated comedy Shark Tale, DreamWorks Animation’s ninth feature (or only their fourth, if… |
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Father Of The Pride: The Complete Series
…as Siegfried & Roy themselves, saving the show from the brink. Their crazy, random inserts are as aloof and mysterious as the real-life duo, and the obscurity of the language,… |
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The Animated Views 300 Giveaway – Winner!
…assaults the screen with the blood, thunder and awe of its ferocious visual style faithfully recreated in an intense blend of live-action and CGI animation. Retelling the ancient Battle of… |
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams
…to them, Jasmine’s Dad the Sultan suggests working at the local school, presumably so the women of the world grow up longing to become the teachers that learn the boys… |
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Transformers: 2-Disc Special Edition
…the origins of the toy line to talk to Hasbro consultants about the history of the Japanese created characters and how the company was able to interject the notion of… |
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Enchanted‘s Visual Heritage
…out for the name of Robert’s law office, the name of the restaurant where Robert and Giselle share a date, and the many character names – all of them witty… |
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Cinderella III review and director interview
…choices, makes for fascinating reading again after one has screened the film. As a side note, the end credits make a point of thanking the animators of DisneyToon Studios Australia… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…the Goolies, who hit the road with a trunk full of comedy skits and play their songs in the light of the full moon. It’s often been described as a… |
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Spidey's tangled web…
…gritty, deeper affairs where the leading ladies discover the hero’s identity (and they both, for a while, lose their powers). In each third film, the hero finds himself under the… |
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Join the 300 on DVD and online!
Don’t forget that tonight sees the close of our two most recent giveaways, for The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh and The Best Of Casper Volumes 1 and 2…. |
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Renaissance
…restricted to the lack of tolerance for the staccato visuals often associated in the genre, for me. And now we come to Renaissance, one of a growing breed of internationally… |
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The Lost World (1925 and 1960 versions)
…believed The Swarm. Here he’s riding on the back of Twentieth Century Fox’s fascination with CinemaScope adventure films of the time. With the success of Walt Disney’s Jules Verne adaptation… |
