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LaserDisc Archives: Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player!

…that these are some of the greatest cartoons ever made, so unlike many other LaserDiscs, this one can still fetch decent bids on eBay. The Art Of Tom & Jerry…

A Conversation with Eric Goldberg

…such characters and movies as the Genie in Aladdin, and co-helming Pocahontas. The full conversation, held appropriately enough at Walt’s old Tom O’Shanter haunt, can be read here: Animated News:…

The Beatrix Potter Collection

…help their younger bunny friends escape the clutches of Tommy Brock, a very hungry badger. The Tale Of Two Bad Mice And Johnny Town-Mouse ends the disc with Tom Thumb…

\\Wallace & Gromit\\ leads 2005 Annie Award nominations

…“Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” – Aardman Features Spike Brandt – Tom & Jerry – “The Karate Guard” – Warner Bros. Animation Jay Grace – “Wallace &…

Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 2

…Looney Tunes cartoons, not to mention a show containing old Tom And Jerry theatrical cartoons, when we could have instead seen one of the shows I just mentioned, or one…

Monsters, Inc.: Ultimate Collector’s Edition

…of five specially rendered Location Flyarounds (7:25), which have an added air of authenticity thanks to the addition of Gary Rydstrom and Tom Myer’s atmospheric audio tracks. It’s a shame…

How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!

…these artists? SA: It was definitely a collaboration with the music department at Disney. Chris Montan, our music executive and Tom McDougall, our feature animation music executive, worked great in…

2012 Annie Award nominations announced

…Best Student Film Can We Be Happy Now — Tahnee Gehm Defective Detective — Avner Geller & Steve Lewis Head Over Heels — Timothy Reckart I Am Tom Moody —…

Monsters, Inc.

Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios (November 2 2001), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (November 10 2009), 2 Blu-ray Discs plus DVD and Digital Copy, 92 minutes plus supplements, 1080p high definition…

Cats Don’t Dance

…Ted Turner’s Turner Pictures (who had previously given us the animated “masterpiece” Tom And Jerry: The Movie), the film was distributed by Warner Bros, around the time of their giant…

Popeye: A Sailor’s Story

…over by writers Tom Sims and Ralph Stein, while artwork was done by Charles H. “Doc” Winner, and later by Segar’s own assistants, Bela Zaboly and Forrest “Bud” Sagendorf. Sagendorf’s…

Popeye 75th Anniversary Collector’s Edition

…for doing a number of substandard “Tom and Jerry” cartoons for MGM using an eastern European studio. Perhaps the best thing that can be said of his Popeye cartoons is…

Popeye The Sailor: Volume 1 1933-1938

…even appears in the form of a 1979 interview segment. Narrator Tom (“Spongebob”) Kenny also discusses the other cartoon versions of Popeye through the years, as well as the Robert…

Hero High: The Complete Series

…minor curiosities. Pinky And The Brain fans, however, may get a charge out of seeing a Brain prototype from creator Tom Ruegger, who wrote The Big Bang Theory, starring a…

The Hanna-Barbera Treasury

…knowledge of these shows comes from reruns, books, and DVDs, but I know these are the classics. Beck begins with the theatrical Tom And Jerry shorts that Bill and Joe…

A Conversation with Eric Goldberg

…I directed in California, and the CG Roger looked great. Tom Bancroft animated Roger by hand and they pulled and pushed the model to match his animation, and it just…

She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One

…documentary, we are treated to interviews from many of the original writers, directors, and artists from the show talking about their experiences making She-Ra. We get to hear from Tom

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo: The Complete 2nd, 3rd & 4th Seasons

…was one of the creators of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Tom Ruegger (also of Snorks, Pound Puppies, and The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo fame) who would produce Tiny Toons and…

Director Kevin Munroe on TMNT

…to make sure that when you heard the Turtles, you heard just the Turtles. You didn’t hear Tom Cruise doing the voice of Leonardo. We’re sort of the anti-DreamWorks, in…

Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan

…the building with Tom Schumacher, the Vice-President of animation, who was looking for a co-director to work with Barry Cook and go down to Florida to work on Mulan –…

Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Presents The Hardy Boys

…Boys serial. Tom Considine and Tommy Kirk appear as themselves on the Hardy Boys set and discuss the show. The show also has the standard Mickey Mouse Club features, such…

The Best of He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe

…with number 5 and gradually making our way to number 1. In this documentary, viewers will learn how Barney Cohen (writer) came up with the idea for “Evilseed”, hear Tom

Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology

…is a much better mechanism for releasing General Zod and his two cohorts from their Phantom Zone prison than a repeat of the rocket from the end of the first…

Joe Barbera; Gremlins and Disney's Dog

…but no-less mature family comedies. Barbera started out with Bill way back in the 1930s, creating the legendary cat ‘n’ mouse team of Tom & Jerry, who will, for me,…

Early Man

…settings are unique and give the animators some room to stretch. The score by Harry Gregson-Williams and Tom Howe is very hit-or-miss: sometimes a great compliment to the on-screen action…

Brave, Pi, Thrones win big at VES Awards

…Manhattan; Richard Bluff, Barry Williams, David Meny, Andy Proctor Lifetime Achievement Award Richard Edlund Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Commercial or Broadcast Program Guinness: Cloud; Tom Bussell, Neil…

Saving Mr Banks

…it, picks it up, and laments what Walt has done to AA Milne’s character. I won’t spoil the her dialogue here, but the bottom line is that Travers – or…

Toy Story Of Terror!

…for a spook-tacular short-form offering timed to Halloween. The Sweatbox Review: While Disney “waits for Tom Hanks to make Toy Story 4”, as none other than The Great Gonzo disclosed…

88th Annual Academy Awards nominations announced

…Sanjay’s Super Team – Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle We Can’t Live without Cosmos – Konstantin Bronzit World of Tomorrow – Don Hertzfeld For Best Visual Effects the nominees are:…

Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin

Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, which I’m co-orchestrating with Tom Kitt. Then I’m doing a show by John Kander and Greg Pierce called Kid Victory. And I’ve been contributing orchestrations…