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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
…only allows for a selected number to be previewed in part, so with several new cartoons – not to mention two new home video formats – having made their debuts… |
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Looney gold; Beetle Bailey reviewed!
…begin to slide into very good, but not all time great shorts. There are still a few truly great cartoons no doubt being held back for future releases, but with… |
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Oscars, Richard Sherman, SuperFriends and more – it's another packed Monday!
…Knight Bugs, one of my favorite Bunny cartoons and one of the many first timers to DVD contained within the collection. Just a reminder that The Best of Warner Bros…. |
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Warner's Academy Award Collection is here, and we have two to give away!
…more than several cartoons making their disc debuts include Chuck Jones’ classic The Dot And The Line and High Note, Tex Avery’s Little Johnny Jet, and both versions of Peace… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 1
…include more and more characters and one shot cartoons, but could only do so to a certain degree, somewhat hindered by its established stable of characters, meaning it was obvious… |
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Dr Syn, Donald and Annette…it's the Walt Disney Treasures reviewed!
…the selection is the educational featurette Donald In Mathmagic Land from 1955, and a group of widescreen cartoons presented in their original CinemaScope format, which Rodney calls “a treat” in… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…kept something of a hand in theatrical shorts during the early 1960s with their now sadly forgotten Loopy De Loop cartoons, but it was the huge popularity of The Flintstones… |
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Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
…educationally entertaining animated shorts seen in theaters and on The Mickey Mouse Club. Since the supplements for this release were announced, my big question has been: where are these cartoons?… |
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Shawn Patterson: Composer Maximum!
…Selick, Tom McGrath and many others. Shawn is consistently in demand for his unique and powerful scores in episodic animated television, such as Oh Yeah Cartoons, The X’s, Dave the… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!
…and the Seven Dwarfs combines all the innovations developed with the previous cartoons, and particularly the Silly Symphonies. For example, the Multiplane Camera, used in the With a Smile and… |
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The Astonishing Work Of Tezuka Osamu
…sensibilities. Broken Down Film (1985, 5:42) – This one begins as a cute riff on old-style cartoons, with the appearance of an old black and white cowboy animation. Similar to… |
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Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving – 10th Anniversary Edition
…together with songs written by the Sherman Brothers (who wrote the music for the original Winnie the Pooh cartoons). It includes the popular A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving special from… |
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The Care Bears Movie
…along with many other cartoons in the eighties, started out with merchandising that led to a cartoon series. In case of the Care Bears, they started out as greeting cards… |
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Fantasia 2000
…Hirschfeld. Hirschfeld’s drawings, combined with Gershwin’s music is reminiscent the style of UPA cartoons of the 50s. There are several stories in the sequence including those of a man who… |
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Justice League: The Complete Series
…five year run on the Cartoon Network across 14 discs. The Sweatbox Review: The cartoons from the DC animated universe have become something of a cartoon staple for Warner Bros…. |
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Inside The Box: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs DVD and Blu-ray Disc Comparisons
…Trip Through Walt Disney Studios and the general release of this short How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made. As a courtesy, we include the Amazon link to this standard DVD… |
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Turning up for Tooning In!
…Tom And Jerry, The Strangest Cartoons Ever Made, Van Beuren’s Toddle Tales & Rainbow Parades Cartoons and Cartoon Commercials!), and Rodney has been busy grappling with the invincible Iron Man:… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…of Animation, he developed a thorough understanding of the animation process. His fascination with comics, cartoons and Mad Magazine further stimulated his desire to draw. At Loyola Academy, a Jesuit… |
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Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes
…is from Red, a singer (the character is recognizable from the Droopy cartoons) who is being blackmailed into dropping off a payment every night after the show to keep her… |
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Legends Of The Superheroes
…Hanna-Barbera, back in the days when they were making cool-for-kids (but really kind of lousy) Super Friends cartoons. I don’t know how on earth this live action version came to… |
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Scooby-Doo / Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Double Feature
…even if Scooby looks a little younger than he does in the classic cartoons, for some reason I can’t quite put my finger on. But in all other respects this… |
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2003: ’Tis The Season To Buy Presents!
…new “web-toons” discs and the Premiere set – go for gold and get the full experience. Great cartoons, nice new prints, wonderful extras – what more could a fan wish… |
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Yogi Bear’s All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper
…were at the top of their game. Somehow, though the older H-B cartoons are less polished than the 1980s specials, they are simply more fun to watch. There is a… |
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Superman flies to deluxe Blu-ray set
…of interest to animation fans will be the inclusion of the Fleischer/Famous Studios cartoons, as well as the 1951 George Reeves feature Superman And The Mole Men, plus several previously… |
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Care Bears Gets Reanimated Again
…Greetings is catching onto the popularity and revenue old eighties cartoons can generate if they are reinvented. Care Bears is the next cartoon on the reboot list with a possibility… |
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Justice League: Doom
…others discuss the upcoming movie, based on Action Comics #775. The movie is due for release in Summer 2012. Bonus Cartoons, as chosen by Bruce Timm, are comprised of the… |
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UPA’s continuing influence on animation
…include Genndy Tartakovsky, Pixar’s Ralph Eggleston, and Disney’s Mike Giaimo. If you’re in the area, on Friday, March 30th LACMA will host “Madcap Modernism: Mid-Century Cartoons from UPA and Beyond”… |
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Superman Vs. The Elite
…first examines the media’s pundit-fueled portrayal of Superman and his ideology, followed by a somewhat trippy credits sequence utilizing footage from old Superman cartoons. The movie then confronts Superman’s “square,”… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
…Looney Tunes cartoons to theaters during the 1980s with little support from the head office, even though the young team in charge of these projects had the enthusiasm and knowledge… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…38 theatrical cartoons from the legendary United Productions of America’s golden age 1948 to 1959 run, and directed by the likes of John Hubley and Art Babbitt, these are mostly… |
