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Freakazoid!: Season 1

…that places the second, double-sided platter at the back to keep it from any harm. The inside of the dual sleeve makes note of the episode titles, while making the

Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five

the sheer amount of knowledge and care the two have for their craft and their movie is evident throughout. It was nice to hear them evoke the ethos of Walt…

Snoopy! X-Men! The Calgary Expo!

…better!) standard definition 60th Anniversary edition of the film to the new, supposedly hi-def version on Blu-ray, complete with blowing the falsities of its “widescreen” advertising out of the water….

Freakazoid!: Season 2

…into four or five smaller sections that cover the renewal of the series, the switch to single story episodes, the casting of Jonathan Harris, the cancelling of the show and…

The Odd Couple: Centennial Collection

…television for five successful seasons during the 1970s. Like the subsequent M*A*S*H*, the TV incarnation of The Odd Couple became the de facto edition of the basic concept, outstripping the

The Prisoner: The Complete Series

…a resilient Number 6), the psychological A Change Of Mind and the final two-part conclusion, of which more below. Always a bit on the surrealistic slide of the scale, The

The Disney Channel…in Russian

…China’s animation/live-action combo The Secret Of The Magic Gourd. Disney has already had success in Russia with The Book Of Masters, a theatrical film that has prompted the company’s latest…

Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies

…program played – with the end intact – when the War was finally over) and when television took hold in the United State in the 1950s, the theatrical shorts of

Easter goodies, plus a review roundup!

of Disney’s major titles for the past month, starting with the return of traditional animation with The Princess And The Frog Blu-ray/DVD Combo and the arrival in high-definition of Pixar’s…

The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition

The Little Mermaid in 1989, and the continuous celebration of that film’s return to the traditions of Disney animation, leading to the Studio’s renaissance of the 1990s, it’s often an…

The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons

…And the listing is pretty good, the selections being from the (a little stretched) “golden age” of animation of 1930-1969 (or, rather, the life of the synchronized sound cartoon short),…

Day & Night

…one created by modern masters of the medium Pixar – to the printed page and hope to retain the spontaneity of such a kinetic original? The answer may not quite…

Warner Archive: Classic Musical Shorts From The Dream Factory

…includes a potpourri of this and that, essentially offering time capsule recordings of some of the biggest stars of the day in some of the most exclusive venues. Thus we…

The Black Cauldron: 25th Anniversary Edition

…in animation terms, The Black Cauldron showed what the new generation of Disney artists wanted to attempt, and the then-limits of their ambitions. It pushed the boundaries of animation, with…

Beauty And The Beast: Glen Keane on discovering the beauty in The Beast

…I sketched out the weight, “and of this buffalo head”, I said, “But the brow of the gorilla,” and I drew the brow there. “But then the muzzle of this…

Bugs Bunny’s Howl-Oween Special

the characters, and took it upon himself to supervise these shows, produced under the aegis of his partnership with David DePatie (the popularity of these half-hour programs led to Freleng…

The Essential Bugs Bunny

…have been much less rosy of late, especially in terms of the Studio’s releases featuring their stable of classic Looney Tunes characters. A quartet of releases sprinkled throughout the year,…

The Art Of Disney’s Tangled: an interview with author Jeff Kurtti

the early Studio as was classical art. With the new generation of artists, the mistake for those observing from the outside is to overstate the idea of their inspiration. The

Scooby-Doo: Where Are You! The Complete Series (Mystery Machine Edition)

…work, since they’re usually featured in montage sequences that have the gang interacting with the monster of the week, though they’re the biggest thing to date the shows today, like…

Yogi’s Great Escape

…an end in the latter 1980s, they produced a series of ten made-for-television movies, under the umbrella of Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10. These syndicated movies included three Yogi Bear titles, all…

Bambi: Diamond Edition

…in the forest” goes one of the film’s most memorable – and chilling – lines. The poetic tone of the treatment of the story also adds to Bambi’s wistful nature;…

Superman flies to deluxe Blu-ray set

Following on the crime-fighting heels of Batman, it’s the turn of the big blue boy scout to come to Blu-ray with the release of The Superman Motion Picture Anthology: 1978-2006,…

Disney Blu-ray 3D Reissues: Chicken Little / Meet The Robinsons / Bolt / G-Force

…to the look of the film, the likes of the impressive Tangled proved that CGI was perhaps the best medium suited to the format. Following Blu-ray 3D releases for their…

Arrietty and next batch of Ghibli Blu-ray titles in May

Walt Disney Home Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray/DVD combo releases of Studio Ghibli’s The Secret World of Arrietty, Castle in the Sky and Whisper of the Heart on May 22nd….

The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition

The 1989 release of the Disney Studio’s The Little Mermaid and the continuous celebration of that film’s return to the grand traditions of Disney animation, leading to the Studio’s renaissance…

Disney Director of Development Maggie Malone on The Art of Wreck-It Ralph

…to the most modern of the digital age. A journey in itself, about which we talked with Maggie Malone, the co-author of The Art of Wreck-It Ralph, published by Chronicle…

Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two

…Rabbit, it remains a unique piece that celebrates one of the true masters of animation – see it! Illustrating the point, a collection of The Best Of The Rest Of

Peter Pan: Diamond Edition

…out of enjoying the character’s soap-styled green-eyed conflicts playing out, and the romantic fantasy of the “will they or won’t they” kind keeps the chemistry bubbling between Peter and Wendy,…

How Disney bought Lucasfilm and what the future holds

BusinessWeek has an in-depth article on how Disney bought Lucasfilm and what they plan to do with it. The behind the scenes piece reveals that the seed of the plan…

Win Cheech & Chong’s Animated Movie on Blu-ray – Winner announced!

…bud-lovin’ body crab named Buster, Cheech & Chong, “the masters of the smokin’ word,” deliver the ultimate comedy high and give you the munchies for more. Cheech & Chong’s Animated…