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Our extensive Sleeping Beauty review is up!

…Princess Aurora • Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent • Sara Duran-Singer on Sleeping Beauty‘s Restoration • Disney’s Fun Film Facts goes behind the scenes of the film Right, now…

Ratatouille opens

…the genre; it tells a story, it’s very much of our world but it never goes for the cheap, easy gag”), and especially its director (Slate: “Brad Bird’s best movie…

Mickey’s House Of Villains

…are treated to several cartoons built around ghosts and ghouls. The show starts off with the customary introduction by Mr Mouse, after which we are invited to see the classic…

Bolt of lightning! Our coverage starts here!

…Vaz about the artwork included and how he goes about documenting a production for these types of tomes. Lasseter’s been given a bit of a short-thrift over the switching of…

Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition

…good quality, but cheap, animated adventure show. So the story goes, Lou ushered in the Superman comics guys, who witnessed a studio hard at work on their latest feature film,…

Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 2

…that really harks back to some Looney Tunes staples, asking who framed Daffy Duck when Bugs goes missing, though it may have been even better had they used a truly…

Speed Racer: Widescreen Edition

…a more audience-friendly two-hour mark. However, when the film hits the open road, for a Wacky Races, anything goes-style trek across desert, mountains and other dangerous driving conditions, Speed Racer…

Peter Pan: Platinum Edition

…entire picture. Best of all is Hans Conried, suitably snarling and menacing as Hook, and sympathetic as the post-Never-Land Mr Darling. Conried would become an animation favorite and went on…

Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition (Blu-ray/DVD)

…moppet Emily Osment. It’s a typically over produced version that goes MOR with the classic song, integrating some new material to pad things out to three and a half minutes,…

Rumor ruins Disney, NC School of Arts relationship?

…Co. and the North Carolina School of the Arts. In a podcast from The Movie Show, a representative comments, “I have a friend who goes to the School of the…

Arthur And The Invisibles

…Invisibles, a seven minute featurette that goes behind the microphones. It’s actually a fair piece for what it is and though we don’t hear from bigger-than-big performers Madonna and David…

Hi-def, Blu-Ray, and all that Jazz…

…it’s only a matter of time before Universal buckles under the strain. Once a certain Mr Spielberg sees how well his Paramount distributed DreamWorks Animation titles perform (and the fact…

The Chosen One

…when it comes to dealing with the Really Big Issues that tackling religion demands, The Chosen One backs out and goes for the plain option, resulting in a film that…

Ariel’s Song: Jeanine Tesori and James Dooley, two fortunate composers under the sea!

…her, before she goes back to Disney animation with Glen Keane’s most anticipated Rapunzel. Animated Views: What led you to being part of The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning? Jeanine Tesori:…

Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities

…a sore thumb! Final Cut: As someone who loves to put on a show and share material with audiences myself, I’ve great respect for anyone who goes the whole hog…

Ariel’s Song: Tony Pulham, a fortunate art director under the sea!

…as guide to the layout artists as to how to draw the location. Click on picture to enlarge AV: And all this goes into the background artwork. How is a…

ChubbChubbs Save Xmas to premiere before Daddy Day Camp

…Bodyfelt for Sony Pictures Animation, The Chubbchubbs Save Xmas will also be included as a bonus feature on the DVD of Surf’s Up, which goes on sale Oct 9, 2007….

Looney replacements; New reviews: Darkwing and TMNT!

…Duck: Volume 2, which Rand goes really in depth over accounting for original episode numbers, which began to make my head spin! But it’s clear he had fun watching the…

Recommended books; Potter beats Bond; plus that Tron sequel!

goes missing compared to a previous DVD release, this collection swaps it for two other films and has much better picture and audio quality. Halas & Batchelor Cartoons: An Animated…

Bravestarr: Volume Two

…Is An Island). A partially disabled boy goes after criminals, while in another episode a young hotshot learns of his own limitations. Stampede returns in another tale, where he finally…

Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Edition

…Gone are the (mostly) real bugs from the previous films, replaced with CGI scorpions: as Indy and Mutt enter the Temple Of…oops, sorry, the chamber of secrets, Mutt is bitten,…

Cost-cutting, Hollywood style…

…untitled Bourne 4 and the long-gestating Jurassic Park IV, obviously under Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. Just goes to show that even the big hitters are feeling the crunch, even if I…

I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition

…for a dog. He goes to Charlie Brown to discuss Snoopy some more, and learns more about Snoopy’s family. Peanuts fans should get a kick out of seeing flashbacks to…

Caprino animation DVD contest winners announced

…some pretty cool concept and storyboard art, and an extensive look in to what goes in to making the puppets, sets and animation for a Caprino film. Think of it…

A Christmas Carol: director Robert Zemeckis’ season’s greetings!

…a blend of art and technology. A close-up is a special effect. Sound used to be a novelty. But no one thinks about what goes into recording a voice while…

Docter and Peterson go deep into Up

Newsarama has a two-part interview with Pete Docter and Bill Peterson, who (not so coincidentally!) are the men behind today’s DVD and BD release of Up. The piece goes into…

Classic characters to run marathon with Boomerang

…Family, Richie Rich, Baby Bugs Bunny of Baby Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo of What’s New, Scooby-Doo?, and Batman of Justice League. More details on the marathon, running July 21 – 30,…

Going under the hood of \\Cars\\

{{link http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2900 Animation World Network}} goes in-depth into the technical aspects of the making of \\Cars\\, which they call “John Lasseter’s most mature and personal” film yet. Talking with the…

A Fantastic debut

Despite playing at only four locations nationwide, Fatastic Mr. Fox was still able to make over $265,000 during its opening weekend in America, giving the movie an extremely impressive per-screen…

Disney new release Tuesday: It's a Small World of Fun

Mr. Hoshi, where the stars are made. He discovers that Mr. Hoshi has hidden away the stars because he’s disturbed by all the pollution that people have caused, which has…