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Now Playing: Pacific Rim and more

…your thing, definitely go see this movie, especially if you have a really good theatre nearby. Otherwise, don’t waste your time or money. July 12, 2013131 mins / rated PG-13directed…

Cinderella III: A Twist In Time

…Searching the palace for a secret room that will reveal Cinderella’s “heart’s desire” takes about as long as it might in real life. Don’t worry if you can’t make it…

Open Season: Special Edition

…Unfortunately though, for the most part, this collection of performers is so non-descript in the recognisable vocals department that their voices don’t overly detract or even barely register. I’ll come…

Flushed Away

…like-minded animal comedy cartoons, or possibly because rats don’t make good movie stars. That’s unfortunate, since Flushed Away, along with CORE Animation’s The Wild, are the most overlooked animated pictures…

Tom & Jerry Tales: Volume 2

…and a bad taste in my mouth. My personal favorite (and I don’t really know why) was Hi, Robot, although Jerry put on an incredibly cute act in Abracadumb. I…

Glen Keane’s Over the Moon: Meet Fei-Fei and her creators

…Disney was always talking about the ‘plausible impossible.’ And I thought, a 13-year-old girl building a rocket to the moon? I don’t know… But as I was reading it, I…

Cultoons! Volume 2: Animated Education

…association with Rudy Ising had come to an end, is an highly entertaining effort that exposes what happens when kids don’t look after their teeth. It struck something of a…

300: 2-disc Widescreen Edition

…actors – real humans and not mannequin counterparts, which is what really does the movie its justice. Even where such elements as the not completely successful Wolf don’t quite break…

Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!

…and we went back with that. He went, “Eh, you know, I don’t want all this detail. I just want a basic idea. Imagine you were meeting an actor at…

Animated Views: A Retrospective

…After you’ve done that you might as well start tracking current animation news as well to add to your database. All this work was done for his own enjoyment, and…

Composer Ryan Shore on Star Wars: Galaxy Of Adventures

…iconic scenes, we don’t always tell them in the exact same way shot for shot, allowing the characters to tell their own stories, and therefore the original recordings from the…

The New Adventures Of Superman: DC Classics

…was screened in the 1960s. From my 1980s VHS release I don’t remember this amount of film grain on the prints, but then again tape didn’t have the more direct…

Schoolhouse Rock!: The Election Collection

…with politics and political imagery. Between the fundraising, the primaries, the conventions, the debates and the election, things don’t really seem to die down until a year after the first…

Annie nominations for 2011 films announced

…Juliet — Touchstone Pictures Brian Kesinger, Kendelle Hoyer, Don Dougherty, Clio Chang, Don Hall, Stephen Anderson Winnie The Pooh — Walt Disney Animation Studios John Logan, Gore Verbinski and James…

One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Platinum Edition

…read out any s-l-o-w-e-r anywhere: I don’t suspect even the youngest of children would appreciate the patronising tone, and again I’ll admit to not even making it through the opening…

Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees

…play the same way for the rest of the series. So Much For So Little is new to DVD from what I remember: I certainly don’t recall seeing this before….

The Swan Princess Lasts Far Longer Than Forever with Director Richard Rich

…How did you go about working on those? Richard: “I have done every Swan Princess since the beginning. There hasn’t been anything done on Swan Princess that I haven’t done….

The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review

…Edition DreamWorks/Aardman/Paramount (February 20 2007), single disc, 84 mins plus supplements, $30 Until Ratatouille came along, this filled the gap of reaching parts other CG animated features just don’t usually…

Moana: Ultimate Collectors Edition

…extremely funny, but they don’t quite gel into the overall tone or make too much of an impact, only appearing briefly or disappearing for whole sequences when not needed. And…

Superman Unbound

…is tired of Supes being overly protective, not to mention his unwillingness to allow anyone to know that they’re even dating. It’s the old “I don’t want my enemies to…

The Secret Of Kells: Special Edition

…remembered school lessons, but not anywhere near enough to prepare me for this “what if?” version of events leading to its creation. Despite its critical success, I don’t think I’m…

Help! …It’s The Hair Bear Bunch!: The Complete Series

…Ultimately, though, the animals like Peevly and especially don’t wish to be subjected to a more competent zookeeper, so they always make sure that Peevly ends up looking good in…

Onward

There’s not much I look forward to more as an animation fan these days than the next original Pixar film. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy their sequels as well….

Henry Selick talks Moongirl and more

…AV: Any interesting stories on the Pillsbury Doughboy? HS: I don’t know his true origins. I know that when I was hired to direct a bunch of Doughboy commercials back…

The Art Of Pixar – The Complete Color Scripts And Select Art From 25 Years Of Animation: an Interview with author Amid Amidi

…if I don’t like the overall film, I appreciate aspects of every movie I see. AV: Do you have any favorite color scripts, then? AA: Again, I don’t know if…

Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities

…to those big companies who would see little or no return on an investment to put them out, or the forgotten films that many don’t even realise still exist…films produced…

A Duet with Glen Keane

…very traditional way. I don’t know why I did that. The force of habit, I guess, after 40 years at Disney doing things in terms of the story arc, the…

Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection

…Unlike the visuals, the later cartoons don’t necessarily sound better than the older ones, but don’t have the frenetic energy of the earlier horn-blaring Bradley scores either. Good across the…

Director Jimmy Hayward talks turkey about Free Birds

…are traveling through time – if that’s not enough of a giveaway that you’re not at school, I don’t know what is.” Reel FX is out to make history of…

Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca

…blob with atrophied muscles. His organs don’t work very well anymore and he’s lost so much color and integrity in his skin that he’s now translucent. You see all of…