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Season One of Lackadaisy gets teaser trailer, crowdfunding announcement

Earlier this year, the online pilot for Lackadaisy–based on the web comic of the same name–arrived on YouTube to great critical acclaim and millions of views. Now a first season…

2003: ’Tis The Season To Buy Presents!

great addition to the collections of long-time Disney animation fans, this almost makes up for the lack of those Treasures tins. Here’s what I thought of the film, the disc,…

Jonatha Brooke and Joel McNeely: the Pixie-Powered Music of Return To Neverland!

…another flying theme, like you did? JMN: It was the choice of the filmmakers in that they wanted to give respect to the original at the beginning and at the

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Platinum Edition

…away deep into the forest where she finds the home of the Seven Dwarfs. The Mirror betrays the Huntsman, so the Queen devises a wicked plan and disguises herself as…

The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition

…a nice look at what the actors really look like and how they approached their characters. The Ogre’s Lair presents the three stages of computer animation that the animators went…

The Sword In The Stone: Gold Classic Collection

The Stone (their first animated picture) and how they came to write the songs for the movie. Running around eight minutes, this is a great piece, similar to their accounts…

Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection

…to the screen, and the result is Señor Droopy (1949), with the pooch up against The Wolf in the bullring for the hand of the lovely Latin star Lina Romay….

Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1

…available for viewing on the web in their entirety alongside outtakes from the features and their original theatrical trailers. They weren’t officially able to be saved, and the site nowadays…

The Prisoner: The Complete Series

the series, these episodes raise certain questions that are left to the audience to decide their own answers, such as the election theme of Free For All, or the quite…

A Christmas Carol

they need to do is make the eyeballs themselves more moist looking, and they might be on to something! But there is good and, like Monster House, this time Zemeckis…

James And The Giant Peach: Special Edition

…vocalists providing the insects’ tones, chief among them Simon Callow as the violin playing Grasshopper. The center of it all is Paul Terry – no, not the chief of the

2003: ’Tis The Season To Buy Presents!

…A great addition to the collections of long-time Disney animation fans, this almost makes up for the lack of those Treasures tins. Here’s what I thought of the film, the

The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One

…toons, the selection here is (slightly) more reaching. Unlike the sometimes uniform approach of the Disney shorts, the best Warners cartoons were often the results of individual directors and their…

Lilo And Stitch: 2-Movie Collection

…due to their six and the often-included hardbound books) their eventual DVD and even BD cousins in the sheer amount of extras they offered. The trend continued even as DVD…

Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land

…brought down. Not that the quality suffered: the 60s brought us Mary Poppins, of course, and the classic The Jungle Book. After the renaissance of the 80s, and the dawn…

Bambi and the Great Prince, Tarzan 2, Lilo & Stitch 2 movie stills

The Disney Database has three new movie stills from Bambi and the Great Prince, Tarzan 2, and Lilo & Stitch 2. The exact release dates for these films have yet…

Bambi and the Great Prince of the Forest screen shots

The Disney Database has just updated with over a dozen screen shots from next year’s Bambi and the Great Prince of the Forest which is being produced by Disney Toons…

UPN and The WB to cease operations, CBS and Warner Brothers to create new network

…with each company owning 50%. The WB and UPN will continue to broadcast their respective network schedules independently until the fall. The CW will broadcast the schedule of children’s programming…

Enchanted

there’s no doubt the remaining animated scenes (now at 2.40) look better than the opening. Dramatically, the switch itself doesn’t seem to aid the change to live-action – the transformation…

Seeing is Beelieving! Plus two new great contests!

…for the privilege. Next, we’re launching a couple of new contests, for the next in Genus Products’ Archie series, the original Sabrina The Teenage Witch: The Complete Series, and the

It's a great DVD, Charlie Brown

TV Shows on DVD has posted the new cover art for the September 2nd release of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition. This DVD will include a…

The world loses a great: Stan Winston (1946-2008)

The effects master helped bring the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park, the extraterrestrials from Aliens, the robots from Terminator and even Edward Scissorhands to the big screen. He also won a…

Enrico Casarosa’s The Venice Chronicles

…little daughter with [above right: Enrico painting the cover art of The Venice Chronicles holding his baby, Flo]. AV: In the book, you pay homage to Hugo Pratt (the creator…

Teen Titans: The Complete Second Season

…dog, thinking it is Beast Boy. The revelation of its true identity to the Titans alone makes the episode worthwhile watching. Terra: This is the other “serious” episode in the

The Legend Of Prince Valiant: Complete Series, Vol. Two

they move, painfully awkward. On the other hand, some scenes do look pretty great, even if the animation is stilted due to the low budget. The show obviously prided itself…

Dinosaurs: The Complete Third And Fourth Seasons

…include a finale that featured the end of the dinosaurs, with the creatures finally succumbing to the results of their abusing the planet for so long. So, Changing Nature finds…

Aladdin: Platinum Edition

…as the now classic “A Whole New World.” This song became the one of the biggest hits of the year, propelling the movie’s soundtrack to the top of the charts….

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Two-Disc Special Edition)

…show talk about the idea behind the project and the stories they are going to tell during the first season of the show. They go into detail about the proposed…

Director Kevin Munroe on TMNT

…of the day, we realized, “Let’s just make the whole thing lore.” Basically, they’ve lived all these adventures, and they’ve defeated all these villains. Now they find themselves without direction,…

Dream On, Silly Dreamer

the system with red tape, then things began to slide. The biggest business-related tragedy depicted in the film is that the executives could not see the end result of their…