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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…Stone. Mary Poppins and Pooh Bear had brought back the Disney name as an honest to goodness household guarantee of family friendly entertainment, and the cards were well stacked in… |
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DVD news: Life with Louie, Little Pony, All Dogs Go to Heaven
…Little Pony – The Princess Promenade. Lastly, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is preparing two compilation DVDs for All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series, titled All Dogs Go to Heaven… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure Special Edition
…to hide this fact from Patch, eventually the two find themselves facing Patch’s old adversary Cruella De Vil. Seems that, although Jasper and Horace have found themselves in jail, Cruella… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…and the rest of the down and out dogs for the sake of simplicity? Here, they take the bold step of not re-introducing any of the characters they do not… |
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Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition
…features is Music & More for a pair of Sing-Along Songs: Why Should I Worry? and Streets Of Gold. Although these selections appeared on the Gold disc, these aren’t carry-overs,… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…of the dangerously close to decaying Jim Henson franchise was a triumph of appealing to old fans while bringing in new ones alike. Real magic sparked when audiences who remembered… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Five: Animation with James Baxter and Thomas Schelesny
…its heart is an inspiration drawing (no pun intended!) on its producing studio Disney’s legendary legacy, a genuinely sincere homage to the classically told fairytales of old: Snow White, Cinderella… |
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Disney says out with the old and in with the old?
Characters that Walt Disney himself worked on are still popular today and according to the Motley Fool 2015 will be the year of vintage Disney. The Fool brings to our… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…than the whole of the turgid Superman Returns, and Luthor’s greeting of his old adversary when they meet again (“It’s your old friend, Lex!”), and some of the miniature work… |
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Plague Dogs uncut DVD, plus Joy To Sky's World
…films. Running through their considerable catalog, I again noticed that the old Weintraub and Thorn-EMI libraries were now among the titles under their control, and I inquired about several films… |
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The Fox And The Hound: 30th Anniversary 2-Movie Edition
…be something of a hand-over film from the old guard to the next generation of Disney artists, with many of the remaining Nine Old Men retiring through the production, but… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition
…of a silent feature production of…Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, released by the Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation in 1914. Walt was just thirteen years old, but the hand color-tinted… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…up in Goodlettsville, TN, just north of Nashville. At 10 years old, Cook already desired to be a filmmaker. With a Super 8 camera, Cook made his very first film:… |
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A Pup Named Scooby-Doo: The Complete 2nd, 3rd & 4th Seasons
…Doo family suspects that it is the ghost of Buster McMuttmauler, an old dog catcher from the area that was charged with stealing dog’s collars. When Mr. & Mrs. Doo… |
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Who Discovered…Lyricist Glenn Slater?
…that she keep singing her old songs and wearing her old costumes. Needless to say, the old costumes fit rather differently now that Jessica has, uh, blossomed into womanhood. And… |
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Bambi: Diamond Edition
…in 1936 and artwork development began immediately. The Silly Symphony The Old Mill (found in the supplementary section of the original Platinum Edition, and thankfully carried over here if only… |
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A Christmas Carol
…Audio, Rated PG, Retail: $39.99 Storyboard: Miserly old skinflint Scrooge is visited by three spirits one Christmas Eve, who show him that his money-grabbing ways are not the things he… |
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume One
…use of old Hanna-Barbera characters, I could not help finding this show something of a riot. Like other original [adult swim] shows on Cartoon Network, Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law… |
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Fred Grandinetti: Talking With Popeye’s No. 1 Fan
…to withhold distribution of the older Popeye cartoons. It is your contention that the confusion over home video rights stems from an incident in 1983, when the then-current rights owner… |
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Looking back at Watership Down and the uncut Plague Dogs on DVD
With the release of Martin Rosen’s animated adaptations of Richard Adams’ novels Watership Down and The Plague Dogs to Region 4 DVD in Australia, {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/features/78 DVD Toons looks back}}… |
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The first trailer for Isle of Dogs is here
…animated comedy. It barks into theaters March 23rd. ISLE OF DOGS tells the story of ATARI KOBAYASHI, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When, by Executive Decree, all the canine… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…When Scamp pushes things once too far with the dogs’ owner Mr Darling, he is tied to a post in the yard until he can calm down. Breaking his leash… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure
…the eye view of a bunch of dogs, the featurette takes us to meet the director and voice stars. It’s all been seen before, but the dogs’ perspective makes it… |
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Bruce Broughton: The Great Prince of Bambi II‘s Music
…non-thematic? BB: I have absolutely nothing against synth scores, but in a movie like this, when one is trying to reconstruct an old musical and an old emotional style, one… |
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When You Wish Upon A Star: The Musical Making of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio
…Korngold or Frank Waxman in the 30s. Through Leitmotives, the interiority of a character or the evolution of an idea can be particularized at its closest. That was embryonic in… |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…able to get hold of an old print years ago before it was re-issued on LaserDisc and DVD. The scenes at the end, where he’s walking in that spooky castle,… |
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Beowulf: Director’s Cut
…PG-13 for violence and sexual imagery), Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: The epic old Anglo-Saxon poem gets as faithful an adaptation as the movie medium gets: an ultimate edition of sorts rendered… |
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A Muppet Christmas: Letters To Santa
…have to declare, but the old Muppets magic has finally and sadly faded in A Muppet Christmas: Letters To Santa. The Muppets have always been among the most heart-warming characters… |
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A Conversation with Andreas Deja
…as, you know… AV: No indication that anything was going to happen. AD: None whatsoever. The only thing I heard was he told his granddaughter, who was staying with him… |
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A Conversation With Andreas Deja
…about for two reasons. The first one, they wanted to fold the French studio, which was with TV animation at the time, they wanted to fold that into Feature Animation,… |