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Ben’s baaaa-aaaack!

…The computer has taken longer than anticipated to be built and configuration of programs a little trickier than anticipated, but everything’s pretty much in place and the rush of intended…

Pixar Short Films to debut on ABC Family

…with some soothing musical accompaniment for little Jack-Jack, the smallest member of the Parr family. Little does she know that Jack-Jack will teach her a thing or two about babies…

Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer

Based on the extraordinary book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake, Revolting Rhymes mixes the classic fairy tales of Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, The Three…

Rudolph / Frosty / Santa Claus: The Original Christmas Classics

…screen budget, which goes a long way to suggesting why this charming little film has remained a TV classic. Frosty The Snowman (1969) As much as I enjoyed the Rankin/Bass…

David Couchariere: from Blue Sky to DreamWorks, an Animated Career

…For example, over-shaping the mouth or loosening the face too much sometimes looked to human-like and we had to pull back. It had to look a little “raw”, but subtle…

Paul & The Dragon

…Borge Ring and Michael Dudok de Wit, to the recent world-class quality feature animation of A-Film, responsible for the delightful Help! I’m A Fish and that little Gaul’s recent adventure…

Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle

…hits like The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast, The Lion King, Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph, and Frozen. This volume highlights artists Joe Grant, Hans Bacher, Mike Gabriel, and Michael Giaimo,…

Pete Docter’s Up-bringing!

…sometimes nature – the rustling of leaves through trees or the way water cascades over rock or something like that, just very subtle little things, but the audience recognizes them…

Howard Ashman, and 304 Dalmatians!

…pitch, the influences of Ashman’s lyrics for Little Shop Of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast and Aladdin were buried deep within my soul, and I often found…

Adventure Time: The Complete Fourth Season

…Nightosphere sets things up, but it is Daddy’s Little Monster that makes us fully aware of just how messed up this daddy-daughter relationship really is. Good ol’ dad, you see,…

Warner Archive: Captain Sindbad

…way down the restoration line) titles out on disc (and bring in a little revenue on masters that would otherwise stay lined up on shelves). Some have bemoaned the lack…

The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2

…stop-motion animation, using hundreds of little carved wooden puppets in a single film. The extraordinary result is still thrilling to see, even now, with the wooden characters dancing, swinging, and…

Director George Scribner: Happy as a King with Prince and the Pauper!

…Particularly Mickey. He tended to be, I thought, a little cuter, a little shorter, plumper, the edges tended to be rounder. I just loved the proportions that he brought to…

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!

…he gathered his lead animators in a little soundstage, and, during four hours, we told and played the whole story for them, even already envisioning the songs. For three years,…

Princess Mononoke

…it got dumped into just 129 theatres, largely art houses, and got little promotion on its way to making just over 2 million dollars in its American engagement. It received…

Bambi Diamond Edition: an interview with Donnie Dunagan, the original “Young Prince of the Forest”

…films between 1938 and 1941, making his film debut in Mother Carey’s Chickens (1938), playing the son of the Son of Frankenstein (1939) and providing the voice of young Bambi…

Snow White: The Characters And Legacy Of The First And Fairest Of Them All!

…had began to crystallize his idea of making Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs as a feature-length animated film. Development on the seven little men began early on and by…

Phineas And Ferb Star Wars

…desert planet to become embroiled in a galactic conflict. And, a platypus stalks an evil Sith wannabe. The Sweatbox Review: Ah, corporate synergy. Disney fans have been a little excited…

Beowulf: Director’s Cut

…the real flesh and blood Anthony Hopkins. Now, we all know what a human being looks like, and subconsciously we all know how a human being moves, thinks…all those little

The Day The Prince And The Pauper Stood Still!

…a wallop and a bass that’ll shake the panes of glass from your windows! I am a little surprised that the packaging isn’t a little snazzier: we just get a…

The Secret Of Kells: Special Edition

…was trying to suggest, splintered as I felt everything was for the first ten to fifteen minutes. At which point things start to become a little more settled and simplified,…

Danger Man / Secret Agent: The Complete Collection

…on the isolation this occupational hazard brings, which is a little more deep than most TV crime shows delve). After three years of pretty much doing the same thing day…

Christmas specials scheduled for Cartoon Network

little girl, plots to trick Santa into turning her into the fourth Powerpuff Girl. Bubbles, Blossom and Buttercup explode into a Yuletide winter blizzard of bad-girl-thwarting action to put Princess…

Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow

…Broadway history in creating The Little Shop Of Horrors, and film history in creating The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast and Aladdin. But our story starts before that time….

Private Snafu Golden Classics

…appeal to young men. This means there is a little bit of near and partial nudity on display, and some light cussing (like “hell”). Although quite tame by today’s standards,…

Adventure Time: The Complete First And Second Seasons

…and are expected to simply keep up. And that’s fine, actually. The back story of the show gets developed very gradually, so at first there is little evidence of it…

The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition

…could be described as the first of the Studio’s more broader knockabout comedies of which the later The Jungle Book would share a little of before the style was brought…

Tropic Thunder: 2-Disc Unrated Director’s Cut

…where the movie is going to be filmed, guerrilla style, from secretly placed cameras. However, little known to the group, including rapper Alpa Chino (an absurd gag name that is…

Legends Of The Superheroes

…hit Batman show, looking a little pudgier and a little sillier in the tights. And Ward is even less convincing at this point in playing a teenage boy! Their casting…

Sherlock: Season One

…for the Holmes fans, as well as many smart little touches of its own. The Afghanistan line, in Conan Doyle’s first story A Study In Scarlet, referred to John Watson’s…