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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… |
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Harry Gregson-Williams: Scoring the Return to Narnia!
…think probably some people felt like a little disappointed because I quoted a lot of music from the previous score. But it seemed to me that it would be just… |
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Happy Feet Two
…it, Happy Feet clearly divided audiences’ feelings back when it was released in 2006. Thanks to the mega-success of the documentary March Of The Penguins, the cute little birds were… |
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Shorts
…of the town’s major employer; so, when Toe finds the rock and figures out what it does, it opens up tremendous possibilities— starting with the creation of little alien friends… |
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Bravestarr: The Movie
…with this little-seen feature. Far out in space on New Texas, a single marshal protects a frontier people from the evil machinations of Stampede and his lackey, Tex Hex. (Note:… |
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Composer Mark Watters on Disney’s Silly Symphonies music
…many Disney scores, including the Aladdin, Little Mermaid and Goof Troop TV series, Aladdin And The King of Thieves, and Kronk’s New Groove, Mark is a six-time Emmy award-winning composer… |
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The Jungle Book 2: Special Edition
…eyes of a little girl named Shanti that enticed Mowgli to follow her into the village. Shanti denies doing so intentionally, but she obviously has a fondness for Mowgli. She… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Three – We Have…Dragons!
…old B-movies had. Perhaps the narrative was taking itself a little too seriously at times? Maybe if it had a little polish, the storytelling might have elevated the film enough… |
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Warner Archive: The Amazing Captain Nemo
…some of their more requested (but way down the restoration line) titles out on disc (and bring in a little revenue on masters that would otherwise stay lined up on… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Mike Cachuela on storyboarding Christmas
…plan was to work on Nightmare a little while and then go on to Pixar because they had told me that they were starting their first feature film and were… |
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Bubble Guppies-Bubble Puppy’s Fin-tastic Fairy Tale
…little educational lessons to make little kids’ brains grow, i.e. counting, colors, directions, though it is hardly seamless. While these little baby mermaids swim around and learn in their underwater… |
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Anomalisa
…more recent work has been a little hit and miss, and Anomalisa itself had to turn to Kickstarter to raise funding. Co-directed with stop-motion animator Duke Johnson, it’s clear from… |
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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,… |
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Director Gore Verbinski wrangles up Rango!
…off the path a little bit, and fumble to see what maybe we can do over here, just a little left of center. It’s nice when people recognize that you’re… |
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The Secret Life of Pets
…and 1970s Warner Brothers cartoons — a little too loud, a little too brash, but fun. Most of the voice cast, like a lot of the film, was serviceable if… |
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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… |
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…top pigs with pigs” was Uncle Walt’s famous retort when asked for more Three Little Pigs cartoons back in the 1930s, although even he relented with a short-lived series of… |
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Sealab 2020: The Complete Series
…to educate and give the Saturday morning crowd a little adventure. Unfortunately, such an approach did not prove successful, as it ended its run that December with three episodes left… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet’s director Kelly Asbury Opens His Secret Garden!
…(2001), Toy Story (1995), Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Beauty and the Beast (1992) and The Little Mermaid (1989). In addition to films, he is a noted author… |
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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… |
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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… |
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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…. |
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Captain America (1990)
…secrets. Steve has little time to recover, as Lt. Col. Louis (Michael Nouri) informs him that the Nazis are about to send a rocket to the USA that could kill… |
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Mary And The Witch’s Flower
…on a story by Mary Stewart, 1971’s The Little Broomstick. He chose Hiromasa Yonebayashi to be his director. Yonebayashi had previously directed the well-received The Secret World Of Arrietty and… |
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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,… |
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Superman Vs. The Elite
…goofy, rubbery S on his chest didn’t help matters. There was really too little difference between the main body of the film and how Superman was presented in the silly… |
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The Fox And The Hound: 30th Anniversary 2-Movie Edition
…feathered double act out to catch a sneaky caterpillar – that might feel a little old hat, but I don’t remember thinking that when I first saw the film theatrically… |
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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… |
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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… |
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Rockin’ With Judy Jetson
…perfectly fine. I’m just not a little girl, and hence not part of the target audience… assumedly. Nevertheless, we DVD reviewers sometimes have to tackle subjects that are not of… |
