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HO-HO-HO!!
Just zooming through with a quick pit-stop message to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! Have fun, and we’ll be back real soon with some cool updates. Season’s Greetings… |
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Happily N’Ever After: Widescreen Edition
…Disney but dumped in a busy summer with little promotion due to their own birdy movie, Chicken Little, waiting in the wings. With Happily N’Ever After, Williams is supposedly back… |
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Meet The Robinsons and take them home – Winner!
…forward and never stop believing in himself. Blast off with Meet The Robinsons – complete with never-before-seen bonus features, including an all-new game, deleted scenes and much more. It’s an… |
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Cinderella II: Dreams Come True: Special Edition
…DVD collection. But, I’m a stickler for not having any gaps in my franchise collections and, even though I’ll stop following a series if later films don’t live up to… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…Smee and their crew get ready for their ambush of the Lost Boys. The touches never stop: as well as Tink we’re presented with first-time views of the “real” Darlings’… |
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Aardman's new home; Treasures still a comin'; new contest and more reviews on the way, plus a recharge to the site coming soon…
…updating the site more often is something we’re working on. While I have been absent, the news doesn’t stop coming, of course, and I’d like to welcome a new member… |
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Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition
…trick. A late, late, almost movie’s end attempt to inject some character emotion in a way that actually connects with anything set up in Mumble’s core story falls flat when… |
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Spidey's tangled web…
…a stop until it motors up again. And just what was with the female TV reporter – was she supposed to be taken seriously? These off-putting elements really didn’t help… |
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Hero High here!
Howdy! Just a quick pit-stop for now to point you in the direction of our latest review, this time for another sterling job by BCI with their Filmation catalog that’s… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…breaking the “fourth wall” to stop and talk directly to audiences. MGM had been releasing cartoons well before Avery came to them in 1942, with their regular suppliers being Hugh… |
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Arthur, Invisibles, and Tex Avery too!
Hey guys…just a quick stop on this Memorial Day to flag up my last two reviews, for the DVD release of Luc Besson’s live-action/CG adventure Arthur And The Invisibles, added… |
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Join the 300 on DVD and online!
…Unfortunately, the Blu-Ray spec isn’t yet up to that little pic-in-pic gimmick, though that’s not going to stop me joining those in the BR camp soon. This edition of the… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume Two
…would continue to show up in other series. In this one, Cleo is substituted for singing canary Frankie, who gets on the little cat’s nerves. When Figaro tries to stop… |
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Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities
…what was that about!? PM Picnic (1948, 6:51), like the Kool Penguins, pushes the boat out to use an animated cartoon aimed squarely at adult eyes. This promotion for PM’s… |
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Recommended books; Potter beats Bond; plus that Tron sequel!
…attempt to stop this world domination of a magical kind! Finally…a birthday wish come true: a sequel to the groundbreaking Tron is finally in the works at Disney. Produced by… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…back approach to life that the futurians live. But then that ending, a brilliantly gauged, wonderfully executed moment, comes along and it’s instantly clear that all the heart and emotion… |
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Back and "looking" better than ever! Plus Super Powers and Pirates!
…to keep an eye out (haha, stop laughing at the back!) for his latest review, The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, which packs in the final run of episodes featuring… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…shorts and a selection of terrific bonus features. I’ll stop quibbling about the inclusion of the Chuck Jones documentary Extremes And Inbetweens and award it the points it deserves for… |
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What's New Scooby-Doo? The new Indy trailer, that's what!
…at much to come! Whatever else, this is going to be an earnest crowd pleaser, that’s for sure. To see the teaser, don’t bother with the stop-start nature of Yahoo’s… |
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WALL-E: 3-Disc Special Edition
…Running that’s the film most evoked in pitch and subject matter. With his video camera eyes, switching lenses from wide angle to telephoto to draw emotion into the performance and… |
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The Wild
…those in bed with Mickey didn’t look as rosy. The Wild, for one, did not receive the promotion it should have, and quite where this leaves CORE is a mystery,… |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
…to the conclusion that the characters (and the filmmakers) are just going through the motions. The uneven animation is perhaps the result of splitting production between three facilities (in Toronto,… |
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Snoopy! X-Men! The Calgary Expo!
…nothing’s going to stop me from getting that drawing. Farewell to this Watchman…until next year? • Read about Rand’s Comic-Con 2008 adventures with the rest of the Animated News &… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 2
…right is a big show-stopping number, which happens to take place right where Dexter has taken his sweetheart Steff! The Hello Lobey sequence has to be seen to be believed… |
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Spider-Man 3
…that seems well out of place, and indeed brings the otherwise exciting climax of the film to a crashing thud of a stop until it motors up again. And just… |
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Wild about Wild Things, Up, Sister Act and more!
…select 20 moments when some features like… (oops – stop – no influencing anyone!) already contain at least 20 great moments. That’s why I have decided to split it all… |
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Michael Jackson’s This Is It
…Can’t Stop Loving You. Highlights include a typically mischievous Hollywood tough guys montage, where Jackson is inserted into classic movies to shoot off a few rounds opposite the likes of… |
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Up:rising with Story Artist Enrico Casarosa!
…is a most unique blending of inspired whimsy with powerful emotion, the hugely successful feature film an artistic and entertaining tour de force for the entire family. For which we… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1970s: Volume 2
…Scent-imental Reasons/Stop, Look, And Hasten/Hare-way To The Stars/Duck! Rabbit! Duck! VALLEY OF THE DINOSAURS is, a relatively little remembered Hanna-Barbera show from 1974. Its premise is oddly similar to another… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…Tokyo Disneyland (7:56), showing the development of the Ride And Go Seek attraction. While this is basically company promotion, it doesn’t come across as such, offering not only a peek… |


