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Bambi II: Special Edition
…minutes for television with commercials, making it perfect filler). Taking one of cinema’s greatest moments of loss as its starting point offers up enough scope to develop an often wondered… |
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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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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…solace of any kind could be difficult, but it arrived in the unexpected form of the second season of Bluey [right], an Australian toon about a family of talking dogs… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpts: Parts V and VI
…last decade. Indeed since the debut of “Toy Story” in 1995, Pixar has consistently set the standard and pushed the envelope of computer animation with each of their subsequent films…. |
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New The Wild Life trailer
A new trailer for The Wild Life is now online, and can be viewed in the player below. The movie opens everywhere September 9th…. |
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A look at the life of Ralph Bakshi
The Forward looks at the life of legendary animator Ralph Bakshi who is “working on his latest project, Last Days of Coney Island. The first segment of the film, which… |
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Harryhausen's Animated Life
Legendary stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen looks back on his extensive career in a new book, An Animated Life, due out November 22. With a couple of his classic films also… |
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The Book of Life opens
Reel FX’s The Book of Life opens today in 3,069 theatres, according to Box Office Mojo. The film is doing well with the critics, earning a 74% rating from Rotten… |
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Tombstone
…Lawman, the first “official” account of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Numerous remakes and reinterpretations of those events and the life of its legendary personalities would begin a steady… |
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Books: Life of Walt Disney, Art of Ray Harryhausen
The official website for Turner Classic Movies spotlights two publications for animation fans. The first of these books is The Art of Ray Harryhausen, now available. “Concise essays and lavish… |
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Life, the Universe, Everything…and Box Office!
…of the chart and took more than $21m (£11m). Whether fans will make anything of this figure is debatable, but it’s unlikely to go un-noticed that it’s half of 42″…. |
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Superman Unbound
…up for his shortcomings by the end of the story, in an ending that blew the comic’s dénouement out of the water in terms of satisfaction. This is one of… |
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The Regular Show: The Complete First & Second Seasons
…why you would forsake goof–off time with him for the sake of spending time with a girl. The boys’ lack of work ethic is an ongoing source of frustration for… |
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A Christmas Carol: season’s greetings from Jim Carrey’s Scrooge!
…of someone who doesn’t feel loved and therefore doesn’t return love. Scrooge is faced with looking at his life, at the life he’s had and how his life is going… |
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Annie Awards nominations for 2014 films revealed
…The Book of Life, The Boxtrolls, The LEGO Movie, and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya. ASIFA-Hollywood Executive Director Frank Gladstone said. “We had a steady increase in submissions this… |
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Readers walk out on Pokemon, Waking Life
…Weekly has published some memories from its readers regarding why they walked out on certain movies. Two of the movies mentioned involve animation: Pokemon: The First Movie and Waking Life…. |
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Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition (Blu-ray/DVD)
…cleverly matching up its visual perspective with the different moods and movements of the music, there’s a hint of the True Life Adventures as the various indigenous wildlife is given… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Diamond Edition
…on the production of any number of theatrical releases of the time, Walt Disney Presents: The Best Doggoned Dog In The World (1961 Version) is one of the more basically… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: 2-Movie Collection
…film, and the exuberance of Quasi’s rescuing of Esmeralda and cries of “sanctuary, sanctuary!” is matched by way of those elaborate, pre-Deep Canvas melding of character animation and background. Then… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part One – Ogres Are Like Onions!
…outside of Disney. With it comes two decades’ worth of films that have built a legacy of quality stories that have been entertaining and technically awe-inspiring. In honor of this… |
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Real life Wall•E coming to Disney parks?
…popped up in just any streets of L.A., says Newsweek. Real life replicas of Wall•E will apparently be coming soon to theme parks as part of Disney’s “Living Character Initiative.”… |
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Bee Movie: A Very Jerry 2-Disc Edition
…bee Barry B. Benson (voice of Jerry Seinfeld) feels ready to break out of the monotony of black and yellow striped life and finds his way out of the hive… |
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Spider-Man: The ’67 Collection
…of the latter seasons. The change in story direction was mirrored by the look of the show as well. Backgrounds in the initial season were often simple. The sky was… |
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Watch the trailer for The Wild Life
Apparently just added to the release calendar for 2016, Summit Entertainment has revealed the trailer for The Wild Life online. Telling the story of Robinson Crusoe from the perspective of… |
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Enchanted
…page offers up the majority of extras, the most interesting of which are 18 minutes’ worth of three Fantasy Comes To Life featurettes, detailing what went into three of the… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpts: Parts III and IV
…the voice of Violet, Bird made a most unusual choice as a result of an epiphany. “I’m a big fan of the National Public Radio show, ‘This American Life,’” he… |
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Play the game of life . . . insurance
An article in The Orange County Register attempts to articulate which famous cartoon, comic, and movie characters are most in need of a life insurance policy. The piece reports on… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpt: Part II
…to Pixar creative VP John Lasseter, and a glimpse at the technologically groundreaking aspects of the production of the film. An Incredible Undertaking: How The Incredibles Came to Life The… |
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Persepolis in motion and life during wartime
…AWN also has an extensive interview with the creators of the film Persepolis wherein they talk about fundamentalism, growing up in Iran, and the unexpected success of their groundbreaking film…. |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…who secretly dreams of a life she’s never known: as a pet with a loving family. Soon Scamp is forced to decide between the wild life and the home life… |