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Beaumont and Kerry: Peter Pan‘s Leading Ladies

…release, engaging on a promotional tour. Two weeks after the tour ended, Disney cast Beaumont once more, this time in the part of Wendy Darling for Peter Pan (1953). Similar…

Director Kevin Munroe on TMNT

…extent was Peter Laird involved with your film? KM: He was really involved, from day one. We worked on the story treatment for a good four or five months with…

Directors Miller and Hui on Shrek the Third

…so well, but he’s not there today. So we’d get together with him every four months or so, depending on the availability. Andrew could come in, and we’d show him…

A Conversation with Andreas Deja

…years has brought to life scores of Disney heroes and villains. Having recently completed overseeing animation on the direct-to-video Bambi follow-up, the talented artist reminisced on his long and distinguished…

How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!

ourselves in terms of animation, in terms of the look of the characters, skin textures, hair, all that kind of things. We kept asking ourselves: what is the balance? If…

Floyd Norman: Story Of A Storyman

…have to engage our audience and if we fail to do that then we’ve failed to do our job as writers. AV: Are you bringing your expertise to any current…

Get Enchanted! Chapter Three: Musical minstrels Alan Menken and Danny Troob!

…buy now from Amazon.com With our deepest admiration to Alan Menken and all our gratitude to Kevin Lima, Floriane Mathieu and Rick Kunis. Our deepest admiration and appreciation to Danny…

The Great Mouse Detective

…four years in planning, and that pre-production time made sure that the artists were working with a tightly structured story, and set the blue-print for how future Disney features were…

Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land

…child, whatever your age, especially when she’s the only one who can help Peter after Hook double-crosses her! Jane’s adventures in Never-Land stand her in good stead when she finally…

The Rescuers

…can finally add The Rescuers to our region one collections, but don’t start the celebrations just yet… As mentioned above, The Rescuers is often overlooked, both by fans and by…

Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)

…most Disney villains, he easily snags the best lines. Also among the Disney-friendly cast is David Ogden Stiers, though you’ll be hard pressed to recognise him as he slurs and…

Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition

…brothers. Luckily, Rex Steele was produced, if not by seasoned industry veterans, then by individuals with some degree of professional experience behind them. It isn’t strictly your first home movie…

Tarzan II

…a comedy performer here in the UK, but he gives a heart-warming reading here, which surprised and impressed me. As for the new gorillas, well these comedy villains come off…

Cars

…film charts his character’s arc to “good guy” rather than painting him as such from the outset and having him come up against someone meaner. Pixar “doesn’t do villains”, but…

Cinderella III: A Twist In Time

…but one that proves all too frantic for so early in proceedings. This has the effect of the villains – Lady Tremaine and the stepsisters Drisella and Anastasia – getting…

Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume One!

…a number of episodes) and to the very beginnings of time in part four, The Secret Of Mastadon Valley. The series opener concludes with the fifth and final part, The…

New Hardy, Scanner Reviews; Snakes On A Plane; Post Updates

Wow! What a crazy week! Sincerest apologies for the lack of updates…I guess you could call it burn-out after spending the recent holiday preparing our tour of the Disney Paris…

The pirate movie that's no crime…

…even if you have seen the last two Pirates you may still be in for a lot of confusion as the plot swings wildly from heroes to villains. Throughout the…

Meet The Robinsons

…spins its many wonders much more confidently in its second time out, not least because the fates of heroes and villains are both known up front, allowing for these extra…

Spooky! Doomsday, Mickey reviews and Pixar contests!

…stores next week, here’s your chance to grab both Ratatouille and The Pixar Shorts Collection on DVD ahead of next Tuesday’s release! As usual, our reviews for both titles are…

Ghosts, ghouls and goblins? Either our reviewers or it must be Halloween!

While we don’t have much new to post this All Hallow’s Eve, howsabout a run down of some of our more ghoulish titles’ reviews? I crept down into the old…

Underdog (live-action movie)

…concept, Underdog appeared in 1964 to fight the crazed comic villains of Capitol City, perhaps based on the success of Paul Terry’s Mighty Mouse, who had become a hit all…

One on one on One Hundred And One Dalmatians!

…the box is our own Jeremie Noyer! I’m sure you’ve been enjoying his many interviews recently, and he’s got four for you this week, which we’ll be unleashing each day….

One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Platinum Edition

…as well as some very funny supporting characters, and a big dose of high adventure. Betty Lou Gerson’s Cruella, along with Marc Davis’ tour-de-force visual interpretation, is one of Disney’s…

Freakazoid!: Season 1

…out Dexter Douglas, nerd computer ace. Went surfing on the internet and was zapped to cyberspace. He turned into the Freakazoid, he’s strong and super quick. He drives the villains

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

…hear his take on some of his lesser successful or intimate work, but as he refuses, let’s take our own run through Indy’s fourth screen outing. Set your DVDs or…

Pinocchio: Platinum Edition

…you wish upon a star your dreams come true, or so the song says, and it finally seems that my wish has been granted, as I’ve been waiting a good…

Shawn Patterson: Composer Maximum!

…What are your memories of Monkeybone and of your collaboration with Henry Selick? SP: That was great fun to do and talk about experimental! Very free using bizarre percussion, weird…

X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 4

…four. Also, after being a main figure in season two, Magneto finally makes a comeback with episodes heavily featuring his character. Of course, the younger X-Men also get their time…

Snow White: The Characters And Legacy Of The First And Fairest Of Them All!

…sketches from Disney’s Animation Research Library! So it’s heigh-ho, heigh-ho, to meet the Dwarfs we go… The Dwarfs “The seven dwarfs, we knew, were ‘naturals’ for the medium of our