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Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?

…a stunning, live-action feature? Animation was, remember, the medium to jump to when a given story couldn’t be told on real sets with real people. But, since the awkward railway…

Pottermania mach 5, plus The In-Complete Pluto

…the Potter movies seem to be following that old Star Trek pattern of the even numbered outings being the better ones. The first film was great, almost old-fashioned entertainment, but…

Renaissance

…original take on an old story rather than any innovations with the visuals. The opposite could be said when I ventured into Japanese manga territory with the stunning looking Appleseed…

Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume Two!

…so from each disc (highlighted in bold text) that stand out for originality or contain interesting ideas. Inside Out is one, and the other episodes on this first disc are:…

The New Adventures Of Superman: DC Classics

…The mighty Man Of Steel is back to fight evildoers everywhere in this gloriously old school, slightly camp, but amazingly important television series. The Sweatbox Review: The story behind The…

Archie and the Pussycats, plus Beowulf and TailSpin!

…Show Complete Series DVD set that packs in 2-discs’ worth of episodes and some welcome supplements. “Before I knew it, I was eight years old again and enjoying the adventures…

Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas

…with “high-tech toons” rendered in the “lifelike” computer animation process. Now, with Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas, the last remaining bastion of old-school Walt – Mickey himself and the gang…

And the Academy Awards went to…; plus much more in our Oscars Special!

…hundred billion trillion (give or take one or two). It was somewhat No Country For Old Men‘s night (with four wins including Adapted Screenplay, Direction and the biggie, Best Picture),…

Yabba-dabba-doo-or-don't? The Complete Flintstones completely reviewed!

…it’s been a fun trip back to the stone age! The set is great, with a bunch of bonus features that fans old and new will appreciate – that is,…

Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five

…parents and children and their friends can enjoy and get something out of. A really impressive take on a very welcome bunch of additions. The old (and I mean old)…

X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 3

…hold the secret to capturing the immortal mutant. In Cold Comfort, we see Bobby ‘Iceman’ Drake desperately trying to find the love of his life, Lorna Dane, who disappeared under…

Shawn Patterson: Composer Maximum!

…what I have seen and been asked to score, generally I have not seen any differences in the way in which the story is told and how that affects music….

Snow White: Disney’s Animation Research Library’s Lella Smith reveals the Dwarfs’ Once Upon a Time!

…to the Grimms’ version. And I know that Snow White in the original Grimms’ version was seven-years-old and the queen was her mother. And Walt Disney said, well, you know…

Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End

…was pure adventure of a gloriously old-fashioned time, with strong hints of Walt’s own Treasure Island, Swiss Family Robinson and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, brought bang up to date…

Wild about Wild Things, Up, Sister Act and more!

…is Shout! Factory’s release of Transformers: Season Two, Volume One 25th Anniversary Edition, which is the subject of Rodney Figueiredo’s latest review. I was too old when the Transformers first…

Gigantor: The Collection, Volume Two

…the old doppelganger routine, as the envious Dr. Envee is bankrolled by a lurking schemer named Lurks (you see how the naming works?) to create another Gigantor; then Lurks improves…

Star Trek (2009)

…for me, is a jump “three years later” after Kirk has joined Starfleet Academy, and the slightly old feel of a worn out franchise. This was apparently supposed to be…

Fantasia 2000

…Sorcerer’s Apprentice”, and he met with conductor Leopold Stokowski to conduct the score. The story goes that Stokowski proposed an expansion of the idea to make a feature filled with…

Peanuts: 1970’s Collection Volume 1

…to Lucy seems miscast— too old sounding, maybe. Anyhow, Lucy gets help from Peppermint Patty, but it all goes wrong when the gig Patty has lined up for Schroeder won’t…

Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure

…right place. Cynical types may rant that the themes are old, but not so for little boys and girls. The producers of this movie get it. There’s no reason to…

Merry Madagascar

…loud moment, turn out in a very funny twist to be old North and South enemies in their own “cold war”! Also proficient, on the technical side, is Heitor Pereira’s…

The Prisoner: The Complete Series

…but rather because he was off shooting his scenes in Hollywood for Ice Station Zebra! The initially baffling Living In Harmony, set in the Old West with a completely re-shot…

Monsters, Inc.

old days when such packages meant everything including the kitchen sink was thrown in. For me, Pixar’s films follow a peculiar pattern. They start off with a whiz-bang that really…

Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete Second Season

…Diego can see that something fishy is going on, concerning an “old friend” of hers that conveniently shows up. When an elopement plot is uncovered, everyone must pretend to not…

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

…trapped in a family of oddballs. He has a crabby older sister, and an older brother who still sucks his thumb and carries a security blanket. He craves a playmate…

Superman: The Complete Animated Series

…from which any mere human would not survive. Told in a film noir style, this detective story, told in narrated flashback, is a departure from the program’s format and thus…

Yogi’s First Christmas

…that the lodge is to be sold by its owner, Mrs. Throckmorton. The rich older lady, however, will be spending the season at the hotel, so they have an opportunity…

Shorts

…too predictable, they need to remember that this film is aimed at children, many of whom have not seen all the movies that came before. It’s an old story told

Warners goes Blu-combo too

…Clint Eastwood; Analyze This/Analyze That starring Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro; Presumed Innocent/Frantic starring Harrison Ford; Miss Congeniality/Miss Congeniality 2 starring Sandra Bullock; and Grumpy Old Men/Grumpier Old Men…

Super Friends: Season One, Volume One

…with older eyes, though, I still think that it was the absolutely coolest show to ever air on television. Even those who hate it have to admit that it was…