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Snow White: The Characters And Legacy Of The First And Fairest Of Them All!
…14, 1938): “It is a classic, as important cinematically as The Birth of a Nation or the birth of Mickey Mouse. If you miss it, you’ll be missing one of… |
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Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition
…Helene Stanley appeared on the Mickey Mouse Club TV series, on “Guest Start Day”. This full sequence is shown in the next video clip, with Helene interacting with the Mouseketeers… |
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The Disney Song Encyclopedia
…composed for each day of the week for The Mickey Mouse Club? Yet, the book has some flaws in its qualities and, despite the impressive number of songs listed, it’s… |
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South Park Chihuahua…a new breed? Get Outa Here!
…complete opposite direction, South Park: The Complete Twelfth Season (on DVD) rips the guts out of everything from Mickey Mouse, High School Musical, Heavy Metal, Cloverfield, Obama and McCain, and… |
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Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland
…lent her vocals to the title ballad, and a flood of animation favorites provide voices, including Mickey Rooney, Rene Auberjonois, Nancy Cartwright, June Foray, Kathleen Freeman, Michael Gough, Sherry Lynn,… |
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Dr Syn, Donald and Annette…it's the Walt Disney Treasures reviewed!
…cartoons, Rodney still recommends completing your Donald shorts collections on DVD. • The Mickey Mouse Club Presents: Annette – Walt’s premiere Mousketeer lives on, in both a couple of full-length… |
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WALL-E: 3-Disc Special Edition
…explaining what sound means and how it is used in WALL•E’s world. Going back as far as Jimmy MacDonald’s work on the Mickey Mouse cartoons in the 1930s, Burtt explains… |
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Bruce Broughton's Bambi II; More Justice League and Tom & Jerry Tales
…successfully continued the Carl Stalling style through such looney animated offerings as Tiny Toons Adventures for Warner Bros, and the Roger Rabbit Maroon Cartoons and Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three… |
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Ghosts, ghouls and goblins? Either our reviewers or it must be Halloween!
…looks like a house! • Mickey’s House Of Villains – the House Of Mouse gets all shook up! • The Ghost Busters – plus Filmation’s animated Ghostbusters Vol 1 and… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…Making the connection with Disney’s earliest success – in this case Mickey’s famous whistle from Steamboat Willie, his sound debut in 1928 – shows the kind of “back to the… |
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Treasures found!
…other “must have” in this wave after the second helping of Silly Symphonies. To recap on those four titles from last December: • The Mickey Mouse Club Presents The Hardy… |
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Treasure Planet: Special Edition
…the Disney ones, and even some early Mickey and the Pirates Of The Caribbean ride get a look in (though strangely no tie-in mention of that film)! Split into six… |
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WDFA becomes WDAS. Not the same, is it?
…(Animation Studios) shadow. If they needed a logo, why not dream up something based around the more stately WDFA moniker? The only happy spot is the use of Mickey Mouse… |
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The Care Bears Movie
…Mr. Cherrywood (voiced by Mickey Rooney), then arrives and agrees to tell the children a story. The story is about the Care Bears, and it starts out with Wish Bear… |
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Warners on new toon DVDs, plus the DisneyLand…bootleg!?
…and the park’s president describes Mickey as a cat with big ears! The best thing? The place has been operating for over 20 years! Unbelievable… Lastly today we’ve got a… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two
…And Jerry were a big success and H-B’s talents were put onto the cat and mouse series permanently and exclusively. When Walt Disney refused MGM’s use of Mickey Mouse to… |
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Classic feature reviews, Pan deals, and more…
…Wizards. For you classic animation fans, we’ve a review concentrating on that period for the release of Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two and some more… |
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Treasures saved?; Number one Night; Iron Man reviewed!
…see that, although it didn’t manage to garner any Oscar nominations (I’d have swapped Superman Returns‘ visual effects contender in a heartbeat), the Ben Stiller-Dick Van Dyke-Mickey Rooney triple-hander Night… |
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New Hardy, Scanner Reviews; Snakes On A Plane; Post Updates
…the Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Presents The Hardy Boys limited tin set (the further titles will get their respective once-overs very soon), as well as Richard Linklater’s… |
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2006; summer 2007; Disney Blu-Ray…
…the superb Mickey And The Gang book, plus Don Rosa Scrooge collections, and a new book on Carl Barks all worth a mention. Other classic comics receiving the deluxe treatment… |
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Pixar picking park rides?; Back to the Dungeons; Hi-def duos?
…relegated to hotel room accessory status: the Cinderella Castle Suite at Disney World and Disneyland’s Mickey Mouse Penthouse being themed rooms randomly chosen to accommodate guests. All fine and good,… |
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Once Upon A Time…Walt Disney
…something to see: a vast collection of the various books, paintings, films and other artworks that the original Disney artists used as artistic sources during the heydays of the Mickey… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Three
…stay the same, and although Poddany’s scores don’t play with including recognisable themes as much as Bradley used to (he has a tendency to strongly “Mickey Mouse” the action), these… |
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The Ghost Busters: The Complete Live-Action Series
…in commercials and The New Mickey Mouse Club among others. Though not really an actor (and he’d be the first to acknowledge that), Burns is without doubt one of the… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…Kevin Lima and end up directing bigger budget features of their own. Making return trips to Disney are voice actors Jodie Benson (Lady) and Mickey Rooney (Sparky), while Melissa Manchester… |
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Looney Tunes: Back In Action
…live-action approach in mind, helping the music play along and support the events on screen, rather than “Mickey Mousing” the action. But with BIA, he goes flat out Looney Tunes,… |
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Brother Bear: Special Edition
…is essentially a trailer any longer! Other previews, also accessible from the Sneak Peek menu, include the Aladdin PE, The Incredibles teaser, Mickey’s Three Musketeers, the upcoming Mary Poppins SE,… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…now President of the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists guild, and Chris Bailey, recently of the Clerks cartoon series, Mickey’s Runaway Brain short and the Kim Possible show. Making perhaps the… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez on the Walt Disney Family Museum: a flame more alive than ever
…of his artists, Fred Spencer, were members. It was a series of comics published in their newsletter featuring Mickey and other prominent Disney characters that were never re-published, most of… |
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Gong, but not forgotten
…percussionist Roger Taylor mimicking it by hitting a Tam Tam while stripped down to the waist, to The Mickey Mouse Club’s title sequence featuring Donald Duck, with varying humourous results…. |