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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…birthday of the US Constitution, and Prisoner of Honor, an HBO Film shot on location in the UK. Chris joined Walt Disney Animation in 1993 to work on the Mickey… |
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Author Tim Hauser’s “axioms” on The Art Of WALL•E
…Little Toaster, and FernGully; The Last Rainforest, and created the original story for the Oscar-nominated Mickey Mouse cartoon, Runaway Brain. I was also the editor for Roy E. Disney and… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…Pooh and Tigger Too. Following this, he worked on storyboards and title designs for The Rescuers and The Fox and the Hound, before directing the Oscar-nominated Mickey’s Christmas Carol in… |
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The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition
…to make a grab for Mickey’s crown. One of the most successful animation companies to rival Disney, the Studio had given us Bugs, Daffy, Tweety and Sylvester, and the Tazmanian… |
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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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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure
…from the returning cast, and there are plenty of “hidden Mickeys” in the artwork for those looking for them! Perhaps it’s not quite top dog in its attempt to duplicate… |
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Treasure Planet: Special Edition
…soon at work on the Studio’s next production, The Great Mouse Detective (1986), with that film’s use of computer graphics urging the two to ask for development on their Treasure… |
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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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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…takes a look back to Walt’s creation of Mickey Mouse and the Studio’s affinity to animal pictures throughout the years. Featuring some great and previously unseen archive footage, this featurette… |
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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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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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The Complete Adventures Of The Little King
…the soundtracks hold up amazing well too. Anyone who has caught an early Mickey Mouse short – to call on a more mass distributed product as an example – will… |
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The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney
…unique route of incorporating themed cartoons into well-rounded documentary styled programs. We all know the often told genesis of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse, and a fair few will have been… |
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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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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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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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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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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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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…as the Cowardly Lion, Ethel Merman as bad witch Mombi, Mickey Rooney as the Scarecrow, the incomparable Paul Lynde as Pumpkinhead, and Margaret Hamilton – an original Oz cast member… |
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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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Recommended books; Potter beats Bond; plus that Tron sequel!
…art exhibitions that pointed to the many influences the Disney artists drew upon in their formative years and beyond, stretching from Ub Iwerks’ original pencil drawings of Mickey Mouse to… |
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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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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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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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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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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…. |
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A Christmas Carol
…notable are Seymour Hicks’ first talkie version in 1935, Sim’s 1951 edition, Mr Magoo’s 1962 special, Albert Finney’s 1970 musical, Richard Williams’ 1971 animation (again with Sim), Mickey Mouse’s take… |
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New trailer for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
…live-action movie starring Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel is a modern version of the story that Mickey Mouse made famous in 1940’s Fantasia. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice hits theaters next summer…. |
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Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies
…programming. It was a Mickey Mouse cartoon that was interrupted on British TV when World War II broke out and screens went dark (only for it to be the first… |
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Giacchino to host AMPAS animation music event
…Whether serving as the soundtrack for a Mickey Mouse comedy like The Band Concert (1935), a Bugs Bunny operatic parody like What’s Opera, Doc? (1957), or the symphonic and visual… |
