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Charles Nelson Reilly dead at 76

…award winning actor did voice work for many animated projects during the last two decades of his life. He appeared in the films All Dogs Go To Heaven, Rock-a-Doodle, and…

Balto

…the husky riders as well as the dogs that the medicine arrived in time). The presentation of the 78-minute feature on the disc is more than adequate, although being a…

Peanuts Double Feature: A Boy Named Charlie Brown & Snoopy, Come Home

…doubt that tragedy will follow, and the fun comes in seeing it unfold, and in seeing just how close Charlie Brown can get to victory before ultimately failing. The scenes…

Gnomeo director Kelly Asbury gets “pooched” to Sony Pictures Animation

…popular syndicated comic strip, Pooch Café. The strip stars Poncho, a cheese-loving, squirrel-fearing, toilet-drinking mutt who joins his canine friends at the Pooch Café, a neighborhood hangout where dogs can…

Where Did These AWOL Animated Movies Get To?

…course, Song Of The South. Sometimes a movie may be out in a totally unacceptable Region 1 edition (think The Last Unicorn or The Plague Dogs) while a better version…

The Star

Do I really need to synopsize the greatest story ever told? OK, maybe with The Star I do! A donkey named Bo and his bird buddy Dave long to leave…

Regal Entertainment Group's Free Family Film Festival

…movies, such as Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, are from the last year or two, but some, such as Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown, are decades-old gems. Follow the…

Animated coverage of the 78th Annual Academy Awards

…versions of the bowties were provided by the duo, for their Oscars to wear as well. Appropriately, Park and Box paid tribute to 85-year-old British actor Peter Sallis, who has…

The Fox And The Hound 2

…Really, who would care? With all the stories left to be told about Basil Of Baker Street or The Rescue Aid Society, why would Disney choose to bring back Copper…

Lorraine Feather & George Griffin on You’re Outa Here

…discographic successes like New York City Drag, Cafe Society and more recently Language, along with cinematographic and television participation in ABC’s Dinosaurs, Touchstone’s Dick Tracy, MGM’s All Dogs Go To…

Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra

…a while Don Bluth housed his animation facility in Ireland, producing All Dogs Go To Heaven and Rock-A-Doodle (a shameless re-working of Disney’s own failed attempt at the Chanticleer story)…

The Complete Adventures Of The Little King

…over every frame and even “blows cold” when the wind comes in the first cartoon, and the exchanging of standard-issue moustaches when substituting the guard in the second. The punching…

Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1980s: Volume 1

…shows. Disc One Goldie Gold and Action Jack (1981) Goldie Gold and Action Jack was one of the original Saturday morning adventure shows produced by Ruby-Spears. Attempting to appeal to…

Tom And Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 2

…occurs. Tom, however, is knocked out a few times and is revived by a St. Bernard bearing alcohol. Lastly in Somebody Loves Me, Jerry is out on a cold, cold

Frankenweenie

…feature where Burton’s own characters came to the fore along with his Rick Heinrichs production design elements. As is now well told, the two had both started at Disney in…

Animation Addicts Podcast #68: One Hundred and One Dalmatians – Do You Got Any Chloroform?

…the different prospects. Gotta love dogs looking like their owners. • If they are so poor, how can they afford a housekeeper? • The nonsense version of Cruella De Vil….

DVD news

…Mr. Duck Steps Out, Put-Put Troubles, Donald’s Vacation, Window Cleaners, Fire Chief, Timber, Golden Eggs, A Good Time for a Dime, Early to Bed, Truant Officer Donald, Old MacDonald Duck,…

Pixar to revive traditional animation after Disney and DreamWorks abandon it?

…very mainstream, but Hollywood saw it as being almost experimental, like, “Whoa, what the heck is this?” In animation, you’re always fighting against, “Well, that might upset a 5-year-old.” My…

Curious . . . 2D is NOT Dead

…proved that the old-fashioned Woody and the new-fangled Buzz Lightyear can peacefully co-exist and both have a child’s affection so can old-fashioned hand-drawn animation and new-fangled computer animation do likewise….

A look at Oscar's Animated Short Films

…Luckey \\Here’s a story on how strange is life with its changes. And it happened not long ago…\\ So begins Pixar’s latest short, told in song, \\Boundin’\\ is “”. The…

APRIL FOOLS STORY: Two Pinocchio sequels in the works

…the Caribbean sequels will be done.” According to ‘anonymous,’ Pinocchio II: Chip Off The Old Block will be the first of the sequels and has the storyline of, “Nearly twenty…

Dad gets animated

Floyd Bishop, a Dad of two (a four year old and a one year old) who is fed up with the “junk that passes for educational or entertainment nowadays”, has…

DVD Toons on Teacher's Pet

…of life: “It’s refreshing to see good old-fashioned cartooning again, without the obvious CG distractions – everything here is refreshingly ‘lo-tech’. The story’s scope certainly opens things up and the…

Howl's Moving Castle gets warm welcome at Venice Film Fest

…the story describes the romance between a sorcerer named Howl and an 18-year-old girl, Sophie, who is turned into a 90-year-old crone under a spell on the eve of war….

Fox, Cube, & Cohen Team-Up For Rap Toon

old-school rap crew with a comically large number of members, whose leader is Grandmaster Flash, a 17-year-old high school student. Cube will likely voice a character, but not that of…

Harvey Birdman flies again

…glamorous as his old gig. His boss, Phil Ken Sebben, is a total hard-ass. His legal assistant, Peanut, is probably a psychopath. Harvey’s got an empty personal life and an…

Walden Media takes on Tortoise and Hippo

…[click “More” to view] of the close bond between a 100-year-old tortoise and a baby hippo that was rescued from the Indian Ocean following last December’s tsunami. Hence, Tortoise and…

Cinderella Grab Bag

…is included but no new footage is shown. The “Middle-aged Mob” discuss the Nine Old Men. This still is from a 22-minute bonus feature with Don Hahn, John Musker, Ron…

\\Cars\\ impresses theater owners and reviewers

…cowboy movie) \\Brokeback Mountain\\ for more conservative red-state audiences.” Film Daily wrote, “Pixar’s \\Cars\\ surprises industry audience at ShoWest. Animated effort is company’s most sentimental, old-fashioned work to date, agree…

Over the Hedge: review, interviews, and production notes

…Larry Sanders Show, It’s Garry Shandling’s Show) voices the overly practical turtle named Verne. Rounding out the voice cast of Over the Hedge are: Steve Carell (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, TV’s…