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Black Cauldron DVD details
…as they travel into the depths of the earth and meet the Fairfolk. • The Witches’ Challenge Game—In order to defeat the dark powers of the Horned King, players must… |
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Fifty Years With Brutus!
…Bluto, and his many incarnations throughout various media. Fred is the author of Popeye: An Illustrated Cultural History, and is a lifelong supporter of the famous sailor. Originally Bluto In… |
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Santa Inc.
…Max without too much of a marketing push, and the only headlines the show seems to be making for itself are based off of how much people don’t like it…. |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…red panda. “It’s kind of like ‘The Incredible Hulk,’ but cuter,” says director Domee Shi. To imagine with her the look of that one-of-kind world, Shi appealed to the same… |
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Technicolor’s Atomic Puppet
…hand), as they travel cross country with Joey’s eccentric family in a run-down trailer, meeting dark forces along the way, while vigilantly fighting for truth, justice and quality goof–off time…. |
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The Lord Of The Rings (1978) Blu-ray clip: “Mount Doom”
…comes to life in Bakshi’s brilliantly animated tale of the enchanted land of Middle-earth – and the brave band of hobbits, heroes and wizards who set out to protect it…. |
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The trailer for Genndy Tartakovsky’s Unicorn: Warriors Eternal is here
…reawakening of our heroes manifests in the bodies of new unsuspecting hosts, they must find a way to protect the world against the prevailing darkness. “This show is truly a… |
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The Bad Guys
…reformed. The story centers around a heist, and the filmmakers have gone out of their way to get the various tropes of the genre right. Adult fans of films like… |
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The Secret Of Kells BD/DVD Combo Pack – Winner Announced!
…carry humanity through dark times. In a remote medieval outpost of Ireland, young Brendan embarks on a new life of adventure when a celebrated master illuminator arrives from foreign lands… |
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Day & Night
…one of them displays the “right” state of play: light, or dark? Eventually, as each one opens up a little more to the other, the many wonderful aspects that make… |
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Darth Vader returns (briefly) in new Obi-Wan Kenobi trailer
A new trailer for Obi-Wan Kenobi is now online, and it looks pretty intense. There’s also a brief tease of the much-anticipated return of Darth Vader. The Disney+ series arrives… |
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The Lord Of The Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…true animation in Bakshi’s Rings often outclasses the work from any other studio’s animation of the time, from the punk grunge of Heavy Metal to the naturalistic approach of Watership… |
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Guillermo del Toro heading to The Haunted Mansion
…decent enough box office hit earned a mixed response from critics and audiences. “Dark imagery is an integral part of the Walt Disney legacy,” del Toro said. “I couldn’t be… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1980s: Volume 1
…rest of the timeslots were often filled up with bottom-of-the-barrel shows. Many of these were hoping to capitalize on the success of a similar show by rival production companies and… |
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Iron Man – Armored Adventures: The Complete Season One
…an invincible suit of armor to foil the plans of an industrial megalomaniac, a would-be king of the world, and a mad scientist or two. The Sweatbox Review: Today’s popularity… |
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Plympton over at Chuck’s
…films often focus on the state of humankind and the responses to the forces of our nature that not only impede but also propel our future stories. His hand-drawn films… |
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Simpsons opening causes controversy
Last night’s episode of The Simpsons has been the cause of a surprising ammount of discussion, thanks to an almost shockingly dark opening sequence directed by street artist Banksy. The… |
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The Secret Of Kells: Special Edition
…snake-like incarnation of the dark forces of the forest. Ultimately, I found it rather hard to engage with The Secret Of Kells, mostly down to a plot where things just… |
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Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina enlist DC animation’s Phil Bourassa as lead character designer
…Critical Role and Titmouse. The reveal was made via the latest installment of Critical Role’s behind-the-scenes digital series, The Legend of Vox Machina. It was also announced that Phil Bourassa… |
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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…how we handled and maintained the simplicity. Because for our theme, we really wanted to avoid designing caricatures. We wanted a clear expression of the kind of core spirit of… |
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The Lord Of The Rings (1978) Blu-ray clip: “In The Darkness, Bind Them”
…comes to life in Bakshi’s brilliantly animated tale of the enchanted land of Middle-earth – and the brave band of hobbits, heroes and wizards who set out to protect it…. |
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Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies
…best gunslinging cartoons), and this Easter special from 1977 is one of the best of the bunch. Until Chuck Jones returned to reclaim some kind of part ownership over the… |
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You are what you eat in the new Venom: Let There Be Carnage trailer
The full trailer for Venom: Let There Be Carnage is now online, and from the looks of things, it’s going to be as full of mayhem as its title would… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…processed it. But the other side of the tribe theme is the idea of family. The fun part of that theme was finding a way to marry the idea of… |
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The Lord Of The Rings (1978) Blu-ray clip: “The Chase”
…comes to life in Bakshi’s brilliantly animated tale of the enchanted land of Middle-earth – and the brave band of hobbits, heroes and wizards who set out to protect it…. |
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The Art Of Disney’s Tangled: an interview with author Jeff Kurtti
…the making of the movie through The Art of Tangled, certainly one of the most artistic “art of” books ever done! We spoke to Jeff about getting caught up in… |
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Scooby-Doo / Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Double Feature
…smart choice of property to adapt. With a largely human cast, the film could rest on an ensemble, while taking some heat off of the computer rendered Scoob, and much… |
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Star Wars: Visions
…the start. The Ninth Jedi offers arguably the most epic story in the series. Seemingly set many generations after The Rise of Skywalker, Kamiyama’s approach to hitting many of the… |
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The Lord Of The Rings (1978) Blu-ray clip: “Winged Lion”
…comes to life in Bakshi’s brilliantly animated tale of the enchanted land of Middle-earth – and the brave band of hobbits, heroes and wizards who set out to protect it…. |
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Inside Job
…into a massive monstrosity. The thing that really makes the look of Inside Job stand out from other shows is the visualization of the conspiracies at the heart of the… |