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Walt Disney Treasures…live again!
…finally found its natural home in Maltin’s silver tinned collection. However, you’ll have to wait just a little longer for my take, which I’m working on getting up for Monday!… |
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Weekend wrap-up…
…actually scores quite big, with five nominations in all, while Disney’s retro fairytale Enchanted finds Alan Menken back in line for a little golden guy with no less than three… |
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It's The AristoCats, Charlie Brown! Plus contest winners!
…thriller The AristoCats: Special Edition, the animated feature that gets little attention but deserves much more. I’ve loved this movie since I saw Edgar the butler’s battle with alley cat… |
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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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What's New Scooby-Doo? The new Indy trailer, that's what!
…he seems a little too…superheroic? • Why does Indy look a few pounds leaner and at least 20 years younger when he swings on that whip? You never could tell… |
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One on one on One Hundred And One Dalmatians!
…Cruella de Vil! Bill looks back on his Dad’s work and what it was like working for Walt at the time of Dalmatians at the Studio, in a fun little… |
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Potter, Austen, de Vil…and lots of spots!
…value and make up a nice little set. Beatrix Potter was of course the subject of the recent animation-tinged Renee Zellweger biopic Miss Potter, a hearty recommend for anyone who… |
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Eric Goldberg's Character Animation Crash Course book!
…forget to check in from Monday, when we’re going under the sea for the first in Jeremie’s new Little Mermaid series! We’re good to you, right? Stay tooned! – Ben…. |
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Blow me down! Popeye Volume 2 reviewed, plus Shrek The Halls details!
…while using other peoples’ songs. Shrek The Halls, which is otherwise a funny little Christmas special, comes to disc on November 4…just in time to buy it before most realise… |
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Ariel's Beginning's composers sing, and Open Season 2!?
Jeremie – who has a heap of really cool interviews on the way let me tell you, is back today, continuing his journey under the sea for our Little Mermaid… |
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Let's start the week off with some new announcements…
…there were a few little gems in the mix too. Best of all, Tod lifts the lid on a couple of un-produced sequels: predictably, Marie was going to become the… |
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Where's WALL•E? Right here!
…Iwerks’ 2007 feature documentary The Pixar Story, a slightly odd inclusion that gets a little lost in this collection, but is nonetheless very welcome. The set’s picture and sound is… |
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Yogi! Fred! Caspian! All on DVD!
…Caspian contest ends! We’ve also got a little more on the creation of the climax to the film: Prince Caspian‘s Beruna Bridge sequence. Think that was impressive? Wait until you… |
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More Peter & The Wolf, Madagascar 2 – and a quick catch-up!
…actually ended up catching up a TV showing, where it entranced the eight-year old girl in the family even though I feared it might be a little too grim for… |
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South Park Chihuahua…a new breed? Get Outa Here!
…we ourselves took apart in our review. The season may be a little more scatter-shot than usual, but South Park‘s still showing how right it can be while being so… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 3
…Nightcrawler and how the X-Men first meet him. While a fan favorite in the comics, Nightcrawler gets very little screen time in this original series (although he would be a… |
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The Disney Song Encyclopedia
…The Little Mermaid or Beauty and the Beast. Others, maybe older or more acquainted with Disney history, would pick Mary Poppins or Snow White. Yet, whatever the age, the life… |
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Sin City: Blu-ray Disc (plus Recut, Extended & Unrated Edition)
…and C regions, a rarity for Disney’s discs, so it’s clear that the Studio see this as a catalog reissue and little more. Those with the old edition: this is… |
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The Transformers: Season Two, Volume One (25th Anniversary Edition)
…new storylines for the show. As far as the set goes, I’m a little disappointed by the lack of extras on this set. The fact that Shout! still hasn’t bothered… |
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Wild about Wild Things, Up, Sister Act and more!
…came along to think of them as anything other than fiddly little toys that broke if you got too vigorous with them, and didn’t hold the toy commercial TV episodes… |
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New announcements and Saturday Morning clips!
…four episodes for $14.98 a pop. For those needing a TV fix a little sooner than that, check out the following clips from Warners’ Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s and 1970s… |
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Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 3
…that are strictly cat and mouse chases, sometimes with a little twist, are Cat Napping, The Flying Cat, Designs on Jerry, The Night Before Christmas, The Bowling Alley-Cat, Fine Feathered… |
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Michael Jackson’s This Is It
…accompany the stage spectacle. Jackson is in good shape; he looks a little thin, but is not gaunt or frail, and routinely puts the other dancers half his age to… |
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Zorro: How Disney Legend Floyd Norman was put in jail by Sergeant Garcia!
…a little family company back in those days, and we all knew each other. Sadly, things are not like that today. Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro, The Complete First and Second… |
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20th Century Fox presents World’s Tallest Scrat!
…The Dinosaurs. Measuring in at a Mammoth 48 feet tall, things got a little chilly in Southern California on Tuesday when Scrat, sculpted by innovative ice company Ice Bulb, was… |
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Fantasia 2000
…wants to be in a jazz band, an unemployed worker, a lonely little girl, and an old rich couple. The sequence is probably the best sequence in the feature because… |
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Animated DVDs up for 2009 TV DVD Awards!
…Two, BBC Liberty’s Kids: The Complete Series, Shout! Factory Mr. Men: Mr. Tickle/Little Miss Sunshine, Sony Pictures Sesame Street: Elmo Loves You/Being Green, Genius Products/Sesame Workshop Transformers Animated: Season Two,… |
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Superman: Ruby-Spears on their Man Of Steel
…for us was our timeslot. It turned out 8:30 in the morning was a killer for Superman. Only the little kids were up, and they don’t understand Superman as well… |
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A Merry Madagascar Walmart exclusive
…with a “deluxe edition”, featuring bonus content, just a little more at $8. This is the first time DWA has partnered on a store exclusive title, the two companies promoting… |
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Gong, but not forgotten
…from a frame and has the familiar ‘hammered’ surface as per the Rank gong. The baby utters a little cry of excitement with the appearance of the gong and breathes… |

