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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… |
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Monsters, Inc.: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…Peterson at the Pixar employees favorite hangout, the Hidden City Café, as they reminisce on production stories, the impact and repercussions of the 9/11 attacks, and elaborate on the inexplicable… |
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Open the door to The Art Of Monsters University!
…the book, everything is pretty much at one’s fingertips. The production designer oversees the selection of work from the art department, and the story supervisor does the same for the… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete First And Second Seasons
…them and holds them prisoner while he decides which one to marry. Naturally, it’s Finn and Jake to the rescue. There is a dark undercurrent to the series, though the… |
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Robotech 2-Movie Collection
…So, the Invid leave. This, though, is just the prelude to the next battle. The Invid go, but they take Protoculture with them, leaving humankind without their essential power source…. |
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Director Stephan Franck tells The Legend Of Smurfy Hollow
…Raja Gosnell storyboard sequences for The Smurfs 2, and I had a great time reconnecting with the characters. I felt that I knew them and what they were about —… |
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Director Jimmy Hayward talks turkey about Free Birds
…steal the time machine S.T.E.V.E. and travel back to 1621, to stop their kind from ever being the main course at Thanksgiving – if they and their new fowl friends… |
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Oscar nominations announced
…and the Boxer Dirty Wars The Square 20 Feet from Stardom Best Foreign film The Broken Circle Breakdown – Belgium The Great Beauty – Italy The Hunt – Denmark The… |
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Green Lantern: The Animated Series
…the first half of the season. In the next thirteen episodes, the writers further explore the comic’s legacy, melding the cosmic threat of the overwhelmingly powerful Anti-Monitor with the ghosts… |
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Maleficent
…and their approach to translating the Disney original and wanting to remain faithful to it (although the question of why they then changed certain elements goes answered). With the script… |
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The Boxtrolls
…theatricality throughout the film that’s also present in the intricate design, where a little Hammer Horror filters through the foggy streets, and the trolls themselves are often reminiscent of Sleeping… |
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How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote as he pleased…
…explain why? Didier Ghez: In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, most artists around the world were unemployed. One of the only places that was hiring artists at the time… |
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Dragons: Race To The Edge
The How to Train Your Dragon series is one of the most revered franchises under the DreamWorks Animation banner. The two films have been box office successes and are the… |
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Kung Fu Panda 3
…ever produced. They may not be quite up there with the How to Train Your Dragon films (arguably the jewels in the studio’s crown), but with breathtaking animation, lovable characters,… |
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Open Season: Scared Silly
…in the forest–including the “retired” hunter Shaw–is lead into believing that a werewolf is terrorizing the land. The Sweatbox Review: I’ve decided there’s no need to do an overly lengthy,… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…rampaging dinos of the biggest film of the summer, Jurassic World, had had their fill of the creatures (and were waiting for the spectacle of Star Wars: The Force Awakens)?… |
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X-Men ’92 Vol. 0: Warzones!
…consideration for pacing so that the action is not splashed together for the sake of being there. But while the look, the characters, and the action recapture of the spirit… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero
…Then Shrek 2 became the first animated feature to gross nearly a billion dollars worldwide, positioning the company to possibly dethrone Disney at the top of the industry mountain. The… |
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Sausage Party
…of the film, but listening to it in isolation afterwards was a surprising treat. The song The Great Beyond was good but marred by the terrible voices singing it! The… |
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Pete’s Dragon
…into the list of more lackluster Disney productions of the 1970s. On the other side of the fence, you’ll find a whole generation who saw the film on original release… |
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Trolls: Party Edition
…film in which all of the characters–with the exception of the villains–are ultimately sympathetic. Even the supposedly nasty Bergens, who wish to gobble up the film’s heroes, are only trying… |
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Wonder Woman
…finally managed to make the movie happen. The film retells her origin story, finding her as Princess Diana of Themyscira. Dreamy eyed about the purpose of the Amazons as the… |
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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
…of the movie, not only saving the day but the film as well. For the most part, I really liked the animation. It fit the tone of the story perfectly… |
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Despicable Me 3
…with The Secret Life of Pets and dazzled them with the almost shockingly great Sing last year, it’s hard not to see the film as a bit of a step… |
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Pixar Shading Art Director Bryn Imagire reveals the “incredible” art behind I2
The Incredibles are back! Almost 15 years after their first adventure, we retrieve them in The Incredibles 2 just where we left them. The film’s crew also features some of… |
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Mary And The Witch’s Flower
…When Marnie Was There. Given this, the viewer might expect Mary And The Witch’s Flower to be reminiscent of the Studio Ghibli output, and the viewer would be correct. Even… |
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Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
…threatening in the overall scheme of things. They’re still great set pieces, but they were more of obstacles for the heroes to overcome. And I did sometimes wish they explored… |
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The Grinch
…Grinch are great friends. The animation in The Grinch is absolutely beautiful. The bright colors and lights and decorations of the holiday pop off the screen. Even the Grinch himself… |
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Looking at the Critical Role animated Kickstarter campaign with Sam Riegel
…their interest. Titmouse was our first meeting, and right off the bat we clicked with their whole way of operating. Chris P’s passion for the genre, and the whole studio’s… |
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Spies in Disguise
…the good guys are actually responsible for the actions of the bad guys if they are too violent. The main villain in the film actually states this as his motive…. |
