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A Conversation with Ben Balistreri
…Crash Nebula movie was also considered? BB: Yah, Butch and Steve had some plans but I’m not sure how far it went. AV: What was working on Jack & Ben… |
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Author Tim Hauser’s “axioms” on The Art Of WALL•E
…the movie? TH: An observer. My role is to help convey the intentions of the filmmakers to readers, providing context for all the wonderful art. AV: Considering your experience in… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…projects with Walt Disney Animation Studios. Roundtable Interviewer: Could you tell us what your contribution to the movie – and to the Maleficent character in particular – was? Burny Mattinson:… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…but there are other important considerations in making films of any kind. Making sure you have an audience for your movie is paramount. Disney just felt that Aristocats 2 was… |
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WALL•E: Animator Victor Navone gives soul to a bot, and Cars a Toon-up!
…animators, and who happened to work on some of the key scenes of the movie, like WALL•E’s day at work, the red laser chase, WALL•E showing EVE his stuff (such… |
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Peter & The Wolf: A Bird’s-Eye View (With A Balloon!)
…musical tale, a stunning stop-motion short movie, that was honored as the Best Animated Short Film by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the 2008 Academy Awards…. |
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Lorraine Feather & George Griffin on You’re Outa Here
Do you know what a “Neo-Soundie” is? To tell you the truth, neither did I before talking with short animated movie You’re Outa Here creators Lorraine Feather and George Griffin!… |
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The Prince Of Egypt: Signature Selection
…using the hieroglyphic paintings of the palace walls, is one memorable highlight. The only disappointment with the movie was its running time. I thought the mid-section could have possibly been… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…shorts, complete with front and end title cards, and presented un-cut in their entirety. Intercut between home-movie footage of the animators in action (and playing a few pranks along the… |
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Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland
…hybrid appearance that is not quite Disney and not quite Manga-styled Anime. Most surprising is the amount of talent that was involved in making such an un-engaging movie! Directed by… |
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Balto
…traditional 2D. The movie is strong on dramatic situations, and the main reason that the dog team must continue through the snow has not been dumbed down just because the… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…but you get the idea) we are becoming used to seeing the voice talent pushed as poster attractions and reasons for seeing a movie, not that it sometimes seems to… |
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Walt: The Man Behind The Myth
…the only thing that marks against this disc, as there are plentiful bonuses that even big fans and admirers will have not seen before, including some very rare home movies… |
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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…could easily have been a cheesy cuddly animal buddy movie. Ultimately, this “season” of films that filled the early multiplexes lasted between 1980 and ’85, when the expensive failures of… |
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The Plague Dogs: (1983 US Edited Edition)
…annoys me, since when is good animation anything but experimental?), then The Plague Dogs is perhaps the most prime example of a narrative animated art house movie. Once again, and… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…Rosenblatt don’t really have anything else to their credit other than The Garbage Pail Kids Movie and Teen Wolf between them that are anywhere near approaching Starchaser’s genre, and director… |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Great Clubhouse Hunt
…the back of the sleeve actually also encompasses the “never before seen” bonus episode Donald’s Hiccups and a music video clip, rendering the actual “movie” not much more than a… |
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The Complete Adventures Of The Little King
…welcome – surprise when I went to the Bonus Features and was presented with no less than seven choices of production notes, biographies, home movie release images and Soglow information… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
…Looney Bugs Bunny Movie. Back in the 30s and 40s, the Oswald cartoons had continued under the auspices of the Walter Lantz unit at Universal, where he became something of… |
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Warners on new toon DVDs, plus the DisneyLand…bootleg!?
…Ferrell remake of Land Of The Lost. As The Hollywood Reporter says, “the question is whether he wants to do a space movie or a dinosaur movie”, but the thought… |
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Scully on Simpsons, plus good reviews galore!
Well, it looks like The Simpsons Movie is going to be the blockbuster that everyone’s been expecting for 18 years or so…previewing in theaters from today, it’s been blazing a… |
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The New Adventures Of Superman: DC Classics
…lavish animated shorts through economical but affectionately remembered movie serials and flew onto television. National Periodicals producer Whitney Ellsworth had shepherded the phenomenally successful George Reeves series The Adventures Of… |
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Recommended books; Potter beats Bond; plus that Tron sequel!
…that, with $4.47 billion in the bank generated from just five Harry Potter movies, their franchise is now the most lucrative in film history, beating out James Bond’s 22-movie total… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie and The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie led to commissions for completely newly created programs. Although the classic characters had never really been missing from… |
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It's The AristoCats, Charlie Brown! Plus contest winners!
…Thomas O’Malley in a silent 8mm home movie print only a few years after the movie originally came out, and I still think it holds up well today. For those… |
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It's Kung Fu Monday!
…and a very rewarding recipient of its $60 million opening box-office weekend! Kicking us off is James R Whitson’s full Toon Review of the movie, which eagle-eyed readers will spot… |
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Howard Ashman, and 304 Dalmatians!
…Likewise, I was surprised to find myself liking the 1996 live-action movie, 101 Dalmatians, the Glenn Close-starrer where she makes Cruella DeVil her own. Some quality staging and a tight… |
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Monsters Vs. Aliens! Smurfs! Plus the WB Archives open up!
…helmed the movie with Rob Letterman. DreamWorks’ latest animated movie took a little while to get me juiced up about seeing it, having given the look of being highly derivative,… |
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Snoopy! X-Men! The Calgary Expo!
…has changed a little!) Superman: The Movie was a milestone in my life. I saw it at Christmastime in 1978 when I was eight years old, and my whole family… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 2
…silent movie bloopers, and the Freakaclone – an exact replica of our blue boy, thus fulfilling every superhero’s need to come up against his own doppelganger. It’s a matter of… |
