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All*Star Superman
…a little better. Foreshadowing is certainly not a foreign concept for Morrison, but the way he uses it can be too oblique; in other cases, revelations can seem to come… |
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The Ballad Of Rango
…excellently touches on these aspects, as well as dedicated looks at the different characters and the creation of specific sequences, but if anything feels a little “missing”, it’s any seeming… |
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Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated – Season One, Volume One
…in solving the mysteries and provide little support to the young sleuths. Velma’s parents would rather keep the town’s paranormal reputation intact in order to cater to more tourists. Fred’s… |
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The Space Kidettes/Young Samson: The Complete Series
Hanna-Barbera (1967), Warner Archive (March 8, 2011), 4 discs, 400 mins, 1.33:1 ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0, Not Rated, Retail: $29.95 Storyboard: Little space heroes evade a space pirate trying to… |
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The Herculoids: The Complete Series
…best work. Without his designs, this show would have been quite forgettable by now, though for its time it did serve up plenty of exotic adventure. The premise makes little… |
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Batman: Year One
…to the role, mixed with enough strength that you want to see Gordon come out on top. Ben McKenzie’s Batman sounds a little too old and gruff, but I like… |
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Robotech: Complete Original Series
…Fortress (SDF-1), but little does humanity know that the ship’s creators, the Zentradi, have been searching for decades and now they have finally found their quarry. Soon Earth and the… |
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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snow Days
…it’s a pleasant enough collection of stories, with some shaky drawing. She’s A Good Skate, Charlie Brown— a 1980 TV special— looks a little more polished, but suffers from a… |
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Animation supervisor Jamie Beard captures The Aventures of Tintin!
…a bit more “cartoony,” we’d add a little bit more snap to it. Of course, Snowy was completely key-framed, and we had animators adding all the character there. It’s very… |
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Scooby-Doo – Mystery, Incorporated: Crystal Cove Curse (Season One, Part 2)
…bug monster, a ghoulish prom queen, duelling Chinese wizards, and the series ultimate bad guy, The Freak Of Crystal Cove. It is a little ironic that a Scooby-Doo show could… |
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Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax: Deluxe Edition
…book’s more detailed introduction to the boy’s meeting of The Once-ler, but little else is left out. Instead, the viewer gets a large expansion of what was in the book,… |
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The Lorax
…the story of Ted and Audrey, or of the Once-ler, or of the Lorax? To be honest, I’m not sure. The Lorax gets the title treatment but relatively little story…. |
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Student Academy Award winners announced
…My Little Friend. Video clips of the silver and bronze winners as well as the full video of the gold winning film follow: Eyrie The Jockstrap Raiders My Little Friend… |
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Brave
…family struggles over expectations and duty as we grow up. The only thing different is a little bit of magic. Some early reviews have criticized how “small”, “timid”, “weak”, “slow”,… |
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Mia And The Migoo
…Migoo to be an almost unnecessary intrusion into what was shaping up to be a real nice little family movie. The end of the film gets into some mystical mumbo… |
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Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton
…a little hard to do since the Australian aborigines don’t have a lot of instruments to pick from. As far as I knew, they used the digeridoo and the boomerang… |
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Frankenweenie: Cinematographer Peter Sorg’s shades of grey
…only a little detail showing in the shadows and then changes to a more dramatic monster style lighting as the kids dig up their dead pets to try and bring… |
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Rotoscopers YouTube: Cinderella sequels, Oz The Great and Powerful
…you might want to see, the other probably not. Then Morgan heads to Oz, which is a little too long, a little too special effects laden, but still pretty impressive…. |
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A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story Of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman
…never really felt I got to know an obviously extraordinary man. And that, sadly, is the honest truth. Is This Thing Loaded? Now this is a little more like it:… |
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Director Bergeron, actress Paradis talk A Monster in Paris
…modern, steel venue ever can. Q: Who were your heroes when you were little? VP: My heroes were, and still are, Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. I admire their talent… |
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Jeepers! The ponies are now human!
No one and we must admit no one saw this coming: My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. The fan favorite cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is getting its first… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition
…who does not have that little tiny part of them that remembers what being a kid and loving cartoons was like. A triumph of animation and special effects, Roger himself… |
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Despicable Me 2
…Pixar, a sequel is a given, is expected, and is looked forward to. After adopting the three little girls in the first film and giving up a life of crime… |
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The Regular Show: The Complete First & Second Seasons
…their boss Benson, probably the first anthropomorphic gumball machine to ever star in a TV show. Benson has little patience for Mordecai and Rigby’s antics, but endures them regardless. Maybe… |
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Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Pete Travers talks “wonderfood” VFX in Cloudy 2
…Of The Rings: The Two Towers, Stuart Little 2 and Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone, to mention only a few. He also supervised the Sony Pictures Imageworks team who… |
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Captain Caveman And The Teen Angels: The Complete Series
…ladies, Brenda, Taffy, and Dee Dee— a brunette, a blonde, and an African American. While the blonde is portrayed as being a little ditzy, at least the African American girl… |
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Free Birds
…being a bit too predictable and a little too long, for the most part the story delivers. The first two acts are especially solid. While the film rushes to get… |
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Marine Boy: The Complete First Season
…Marine Boy?” I asked. Information on the Net was scarce, too, though I did find some reference to its Japanese origins. Four years later, I was a little amazed, but… |
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Frozen
…little more cookie-cutter, and could easily take the place of Rapunzel (not just in looks but personality as well), though she is less expressive than her long-haired counterpart. Their characters… |
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Disney princesses may be better role models than some claim
Disney princesses take a lot of heat for being poor influences on little girls, because Disney associates them with fashion, make-up, etc. Some say it is easy to pick on… |
