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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…remember Daffy Duck popping up on the same screen as the animated Dracula, clearly based on the Monster Party movie, and was excited to find out that the show, called… |
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Giveaway crazy! Plus the old American Dog/Bolt switcheroo!
…that the new movie has been given a confirmed title change, reflecting our hero’s name. What is it? Bolt. Adding fuel to this fire, which fans have been flaming since… |
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Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?
…interested in the Filmation story. In just-confirmed Hollywood news, it has been announced that Walt Disney Pictures’ first collaboration out of the gate in their ImageMovers partnership with director Robert… |
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Robinsons vs. Transformers
While Transformers attacked multiplexes this past summer to score a massive box office victory, the movie itself left a distinct lack of impression on me as you might have already… |
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Oscars, LaserDiscs, Lost Chords, and Wild animals!
…it is as I have been saying since the inauguration of that category) but great as it was, WALL-E wasn’t that movie. As a consolatory prize, a nod for Best… |
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South Park: The Complete Twelfth Season
…Stone, for at times like these a million armchair critics can waffle on all they like about an extremely disappointing movie outing, but only these two can really send the… |
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Snow White: The Characters And Legacy Of The First And Fairest Of Them All!
…(adjusted for inflation): $782,620,000 – ranked #10th. There simply hadn’t been anything like Snow White when it was first released and arguably there has never been a film quite like… |
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Sunset Boulevard: Centennial Collection
…and one that should be on the shelves of any serious movie buff, Paramount’s Sunset Boulevard: Centennial Collection is a classy edition of a must-have movie experience. Very highly recommended…. |
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Warner Archive: Captain Sindbad
…The disc’s included trailer plays up the action and excitement with a little too much emphasis on pushing the B-movie clichés: in actual fact, Captain Sindbad is a better movie… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
…of minutes, and much greater things are still to come, but it all looks thrilling thanks to ILM. It’s been established before that Jack’s been to Australia, meaning we’re certainly… |
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We’re off to see the Wizard!
…been joined by a new audio commentary by creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. I’m sure there was some promotional material that played on TV during the movie’s release in… |
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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection
…Animations to have W & G star in their own movie. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit’s 56 million dollar gross in the U.S./Canada market in 2005 was… |
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A Muppet Christmas: Letters To Santa
…in character, and long before the toys and bugs of Pixar’s movies started a trend, the Muppets had been doing the exact same thing for years. However, it’s lamentable to… |
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Fantastic Mr Fox
…rest of the movie, from its visual design to the music and editing. Over a long career that has only yielded a handful of films (Mr Fox is only Anderson’s… |
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A Christmas Carol
…an early November release date simple being too early to go and see a Christmas movie, my underlying disappointment with the motion-capture process (and let’s stop calling it performance capture… |
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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 2: The “Disney Decade”
…sequence where there is the Something There song. That was actually added right toward the end of the movie. That was a last minute song because the film needed one… |
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Ponyo
…for the Toy Story Blu-rays, Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue, Disney’s Friends For Change: Project Green, an anti-bootlegging spot called Genuine Treasure, Disney Movie Rewards, and Disney Blu-ray…. |
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Toy Story 3
It’s hard to believe it’s been 15 years since Pixar introduced the world to computer animated feature films. The original Toy Story kicked off the CG animation craze. But sometimes… |
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Toy Story‘s full specs and final artwork
…Home Entertainment. Families won’t want to miss adding the Blu-ray Combo Pack, 2 Disc Blu-ray or the DVD edition of Toy Story 3 to their home movie collections. Fans of… |
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Warner Archive: Classic Musical Shorts From The Dream Factory
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Warner Home Video (1928-48 / 2010), 4 discs, 490 mins, 1.33:1, Dolby Mono, Not Rated, $34.95 (available online only from the Warner Archive Collection) The Movie: There comes a time… |
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Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes
…and Spanish subtitles. Final Cut: When compared to some previous Tom and Jerry movies that have been released in the past few years, this one does not rank amongst the… |
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Arrietty, the Borrower and Cecile Corbel, the Composer…
…to whom I wanted to send my CD. So, I put Studio Ghibli on my list because I’ve been a fan of their films for years. I’m not an expert… |
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The Art Of Disney’s Tangled: an interview with author Jeff Kurtti
Some animated movies lend themselves more than others to the standard practice of the “art” book. But maybe no recent animated movie deserved such a book more than Tangled ,… |
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Picks Of The Year 2004
…site and Amazon links can be found right here! First up: a brief review of the year, and it’s been a pretty good one for animation fans and artists themselves… |
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The Art Of Kung Fu Panda 2
By Tracey Miller-Zarneke Foreword by Dustin Hoffman Insight Editions May 2, 2011 Hardcover, 156 pages with extensive full color illustrations $39.95 Even just before the movie opens, I’m finding it… |
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Mad: Season One, Part One
…and famously “cheap” as printed on each cover under the asking price, a double entendre that I’ve always found amusing. Over the years there have been a few attempts to… |
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Batman: Year One
…the groundwork for whatever came next. Warner Premiere’s line of DC animated movies also takes its latest inspiration from Miller, with a direct adaptation of Batman: Year One. The PG-13… |
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Popeye returning to the big screen
…writers Jay Scherick and David Ronn penning the script. “Popeye has been my childhood favorite character,” said Spider-Manmovie producer Avi Arad. “To me he was always the everyday man who… |
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Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
…successful that it spawned a sequel in 1976 called Frosty’s Winter Wonderland which has just been re-released by Warner Bros. on DVD in time for the Holidays. In this sequel,… |
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Animation supervisor Jamie Beard captures The Aventures of Tintin!
…capturing emotion than motion. Animated Views: When did you decide to study animation? Jamie Beard: I’ve been wanting to do animation since I was knee-high. It’s been in my blood… |
