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Star Trek (2009)

…ever consider myself to be a Trekker, though I have followed all incarnations of the show over the years and know enough of the in-jokes to pick up the references…

Up:rising with Story Artist Enrico Casarosa!

They’re all quite accomplished musicians, so they fancied themselves as entertainers and all the residents loved it! In the meanwhile they were also studying quite carefully their audience, looking at…

Oscar reactions from Coraline, French Roast

…LAIKA and Focus Features very proud. And the diversity of the nominees in both storytelling and animation techniques gladdens my heart: The Princess and the Frog and The Secret of…

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition

…Vince Guaraldi, which was what always made the TV specials stand as their own phenomenon. At least the voice cast for the kids was kept young; the actors’ young voices…

My Neighbor Totoro

…black creatures in the house, which they learn are “soot sprites,” and thus they are introduced to the magic present around them. The soot sprites are the least of the

Iron Man: The Complete 1994 Animated Television Series

…was formed, why it formed, or who the heck these people are. For the record, those characters included The Scarlet Witch (though not really the one from the comics), Spider-Woman…

Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1980s: Volume 1

…Kids. In the case of The Flintstones, I think that the kids show brought the classic dynamic between the famous characters into a new situation allowing them to break free…

Peanuts 1970’s Collection: Vol. 2

…And there’s no insert this time. As before, though, the disc contents are described in greater detail on the reverse of the front cover, readable through the inside of the

Alice In Wonderland

the themes of the story and make many insightful observations. The Mad Hatter (6:02) explores Depp’s take on the quite literally “mad” character, with the actor expressing his desire to…

Toy Story 3

the Toy Story universe. The rest of the film continues to run along re-running themes from the first two films: Woody is disassociated from the rest of the group, Jesse…

Don Hahn discusses Fantasia 2000 and Waking Sleeping Beauty

…of the Animals with the watercolor style, and the flamingos and the yo-yo. You may not do it a whole feature, but you can take there amazing artistic liberties in…

Scooby-Doo: Where Are You! The Complete Series (Mystery Machine Edition)

…work, since they’re usually featured in montage sequences that have the gang interacting with the monster of the week, though they’re the biggest thing to date the shows today, like…

Yogi Bear’s All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper

…of the last times where the classic H-B characters really felt like themselves. The bonus special on the disc could have easily been the headliner itself, with the 1960s versions…

Jabberjaw: The Complete Series

the sea against perils of the deep… in the future! The Sweatbox Review: Jabbajabbajabbajabbajabbajabbajaw!!!!…. Dang, I’ll never get that theme song out of my head. Ah, the 1970s, home of…

Tales From Earthsea

…plot that encompasses magic and mystery. It also utilizes the notion of the use of magic leading to a loss in the balance of nature. The theme of maintaining nature’s…

Gnomeo & Juliet

…as the upcoming new Winnie The Pooh to theaters, The Lion King’s 3D BD debut (making the Elton John connection),Dumbo: 70th Anniversary, The Fox And The Hound: 30th Anniversary, plus…

Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles: The Complete Series

there seems to be little attempt at hiding their “secret” identities. In civilian life, they form a rock band called The Impossibles, and then they switch (often in plain view)…

Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos

…stereotypical characters with flat personalities. They are standard archetypes – the tomboy, the fighter, the fat guy, the kid that gets into trouble, and the young apprentice. These can work…

The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones

their machinations (say it with me now) result in the retrieving of the wrong family. Now, with the Flintstones and the Rubbles in the future, and the Jetsons stuck in…

Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!

…Moms was partially inspired by your great grandfather, H. G. Wells. SW: There’s a semi-quote at the beginning of the book, as I recall. The opening page has, “Across the

Mars Needs Moms

…I’m not the greatest proponent of the motion capture technique may well be expecting me to blast the film outright simply because this is the method used to animate the

Disney and Pixar announce four 3-D re-releases

…will put it back in theaters just a few months before the film’s prequel is the following June. And finally, The Little Mermaid will see its second re-release to theaters…

Pixar founder Steve Jobs dead at 56

…far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined. Steve…

Frosty’s Winter Wonderland

the trendsetter and popularized the building of snowmen by children around the world (at least where there was snow). Sprinkled throughout the featurette are some great historical photos and footage…

William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg read The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore!

…adults after Hurricane Katrina and then Hurricane Rita. It was amazing to see these kids. They had lost their homes. They didn’t know when they would ever get back; they…

Justice League: Doom

…organizations as the Injustice League of the comics, or the Legion Of Doom from the Challenge Of The Super Friends TV show (and later the final season of Justice League:…

X-Men Anime

…mutants in order to harvest their organs. They find their former adversary Emma Frost, and then young Hisako, who joins the team as Armor, getting training back in the United…

ParaNorman: an art in the making, with filmmakers Chris Butler and Sam Fell

…that style but then the style became further developped by our production designer, Nelson Lowery, and the rest of the team. Nelson brought the different concepts together in the fim…

Pocahontas: 2-Movie Collection

the rest of the songs, anyone who has seen the film will know they are equally up there with the best of them, though I have to say that I…

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted

the second Madagascar just warmed up and repeated more that audiences liked of the first, without giving them anything new. You liked the little old granny who slapped the big…