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I Wanna Be Like You! The Jungle Book on DVD, plus SuperFriends!
…“the best that Warner has done so far when it comes to Super Friends, this one brings a couple of substantial featurettes that are actually about the making of the… |
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Mickey’s House Of Villains
…the disgruntled villain brigade, who want to spoil all the fun and show only their Halloween-themed scary shorts to the trapped audience. The Sweatbox Review: Perhaps the title of this… |
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Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas
…caps, which should warn you to the terror within. A chapter card and money-off coupons complete the package. Speaking of the differences between the “life” of the 2D vs 3D… |
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Batman, Pixar, Pooh…and Cinders two!
…for Dean Jones in a host of very amusing comedies in the 60s and 70s, The Ugly Dachshund, Blackbeard’s Ghost and The Shaggy D.A. among them. On television, she of… |
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What's New Scooby-Doo? The new Indy trailer, that's what!
…movies, Rand’s noticed that added is “a healthy dose of post-modernism, with the characters often teasing the show’s long-time convention, commenting on the unfairness of how the team would split… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…the truly classic Paramount/Fleischer Popeye the Sailor cartoons on DVD, and the fact that the cream of that crop, the Technicolor two-reeler Popeye The Sailor Meets Sindbad The Sailor, was… |
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Dr Syn, Donald and Annette…it's the Walt Disney Treasures reviewed!
…additions to the series. • Dr Syn, Alias The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh – Patrick McGoohan stars as anti-hero Christopher Syn, who in the dark of night becomes the terrifying… |
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Shawn Patterson: Composer Maximum!
…the depth of the score as well. I also look at the show in terms of color, lines, overall pacing, etc. In the case of The X’s (for Nickelodeon) it… |
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The Disney Song Encyclopedia
…to your mind? To some – and certainly many of them – it would be the ones of The Lion King. To some others, it could be the ones of… |
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The Odd Couple: Centennial Collection
…television for five successful seasons during the 1970s. Like the subsequent M*A*S*H*, the TV incarnation of The Odd Couple became the de facto edition of the basic concept, outstripping the… |
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Warner Archive: Captain Sindbad
…of the sets would be impressive enough if the rest of the movie wasn’t also as enchanting with its imagination. Of course its hokey stuff, but then these films were… |
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Warner Archive: A Distant Trumpet
…but the effect is the same: very good versions of otherwise hard to find movies. I was particularly impressed by the stability of the elements used and the solidity of… |
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Spider-Man 3
…reminds me of the Christopher Reeve Superman films. The first set up the myth splendidly, while the second entries became more gritty, deeper affairs where the leading ladies discover the… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez on the Walt Disney Family Museum: a flame more alive than ever
…is that most of the most talented artists of today are precisely the ones who are the closest to the historical roots of the company and who are going to… |
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Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 3
…In fact, these two cartoons were shot in Cinemascope. In The Two Mouseketeers, the Academy Award Winner of 1951, Jerry is a mouseketter and Tom is one of the king’s… |
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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection
…is one of the pleasures of watching their films. Park, who started the pair’s first film while attending the National Film And Television School in the United Kingdom, brought the… |
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Burton, Timm, Katzenberg to receive Winsor McCay Award
…create Dreamworks SKG, where, as head of the animation studio, he oversaw the production of hand drawn animated features The Prince of Egypt, The Road to el Diablo and Spirit…. |
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Fantastic Mr Fox
…terrifying ringleader of the farmers; his destroying of his office at a point of frustration is unexpected and a great bit of animation. But regardless of the mixed accents, Mr… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 2
…the packaging. The “adult collectors only” warning on the back of the box is more meaningful this time around, as there could be real concern with some depictions in these… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…as McGoohan’s working practices, the wink-wink use of the John Drake publicity photo in the resignation opening titles, the history of Portmeirion, production stories including the failure of Rover #1,… |
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2009 Annie Nominees announced
…a Chance of Meatballs, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog, The Secret of Kells, and Up.Walt Disney Animation Studios’ The Princess and the Frog received eight nominations,… |
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Princess And The Frog soundtrack streamed
…and also to really introducing the characters and learning about the characters; what they’re about, what they want, what’s inside them.” (Image Courtesy of USA Weekend Magazine) The lady who… |
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Michael’s Jackson’s Captain Eo returning to Disneyland
The King of Pop himself will be returning to Disneyland one last time, Disney Parks Blog reveals, in the park’s popular attraction Captain Eo. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and… |
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Brittany Murphy dies at 32
…to animation fans as the voice of Luanne Platter on the long running series King of the Hill. She also had roles in the TV shows Futurama and Pepper Ann,… |
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Happy New Year and all the best for 2010!
…the effects, there’s a frustrating mix of the excellent (the subtle withering of Worthington’s human legs, explaining his use of a wheelchair), the predictable (the giant robot suits, not as… |
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Up wins Best Feature Annie Award
…had the most awards with three. Prep and Landing won the Television award. The Penguins of Madagascar won the Children’s TV award. Robot Chicken: Star Wars 2.5 won the Short… |
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Super Friends: Season One, Volume One
…he was not even mentioned in the opening of the show, which only proclaimed “four” of the world’s greatest heroes). The opening, incidentally, did verbally identify the team as the… |
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Stick a Sailor on your wall!
Recently released are a new series of officially licensed giant Popeye prints from the wall graphics company LTL Prints. The premium graphics include everything from laptop size up to LTL’s… |
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The Paintings of Peregoy at Suspended Animation
…The Lion King and The Little Mermaid). Suspended Animation Gallery presents a revolving series of works and artists, posting photos of the available pieces to its website. Original pieces can… |
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Kingdom Hearts Prequel Arrives September 7
…Bret Iwan as the fourth voice of “King” Mickey Mouse-his predecessor, the late Wayne Allwine, passed away last year after the completion of his work on the previous Kingdom Hearts… |
