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A London Rendezvous! Plus printable posters Up for grabs!
…caution to the wind and decided to meet up in person for the first time, marking the fifth anniversary of the site. The destination was San Diego’s annual Comic-Con, and… |
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Halo video game becomes animated disc debut
…bonus materials, including all the great extras from the 2-disc Special Edition as well as Halo: The Story so Far, an overview of the Halo universe up until the end… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…her to the real world. However, Randall has discovered the kid, and the longer she stays in their world, the better his chances remain that Sulley will be found out… |
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Pixar Short Films to debut on ABC Family
…manages to turn the tables. There’s Geri. And then there’s the other Geri. You’d swear they were twins who didn’t get along since birth. In reality, it’s only one very… |
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Plastic Man: The Complete Collection
…shows of Hanna-Barbera, and fondly remember the likes of Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, The Kwiki-Koala Show, The New Schmoo, the list is endless. Added to that was my interest in superheroes,… |
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The Art of Princess and the Frog: Down in New Orleans with author Jeff Kurtti
…the great Disney classics. But I prefer the way Ian Gooding puts it at the end of the book, saying that they were “trying to reinvent everything.” It’s not just… |
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Zorro, Zorro, Zorro…and memories of Richard Todd
…discuss his earlier Disney career, when he was the lead in Walt’s first forays into live-action with the historical epics The Story Of Robin Hood And His Merrie Men, The… |
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Yogi’s First Christmas
…on Richie Rich (The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show), movie monsters (Drak Pack) and the Fonz (The Fonz And The Happy Days Gang), but they also kept their sights on the characters… |
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The Princess and the Frog
…decision for this film. Despite the Cajun accents and the voodoo themes, what really sells the setting as New Orleans is the music. And while Menken is a great composer,… |
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Happy New Year and all the best for 2010!
…the 3D goggles would put the viewer onto Cameron’s planet of Pandora as if one were there, the film remains visually impressive enough, and whatever the extra dimensions, they wouldn’t… |
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Disney/Marvel brings Stan Lee into the fold
…them in the coming years. In addition to the huge creative opportunity this affords POW!, it also provides for the next positive stage in the expansion of the company itself.”… |
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Godzilla stomps back onto the big screen
…films worldwide. Legendary intends to approach the film and its characters in the most authentic manner possible. The company will, in the near future, announce a filmmaker to helm the… |
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The First Easter Rabbit: Deluxe Edition
…their name for this sometimes strange hand-animated origin of the Easter Bunny, but the results are rather crude and Warners’ disc is missing the “deluxe” element of the cover’s banner…. |
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Warner Archive: The Amazing Captain Nemo
…the case with one of the latest titles in the line, The Amazing Captain Nemo, the amazingly kitsch television movie that saw a limited theatrical release when a proposed TV… |
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Armageddon
…At La Ciotat Station, which created the myth of the then-stunned audience, seeing such sights on a screen for the first time, screaming out of the theater in panic! Destruction… |
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The Art of Toy Story 3: animation historian Charles Solomon tells about his “Favorite Toys”
…generous about sharing their memories of the earlier Toy Story films, as well as their thoughts on the new movie. I hope the Introduction helps readers understand the progress of… |
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Shrek Forever After
…for the writers, Rumpelstiltskin continues the tradition (only soiled in the third film) of great villains. The beauty of Shrek bad guys is that they are not the bad guy… |
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Toy Story 3: Animator Victor Navone talks about his “Favorite Toys”
…who can help the newer animators. There was a lot of work upfront in pre-production to document the classic characters and create guidelines for the new animators in the form… |
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Toy Story 3
…lost in the historical aspects is the fact that is was a really great movie in its own right. The second film topped the first, and earned the Golden Globe… |
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8 minutes of next Tinker Bell movie now online
…who’s always believed in fairies despite being told that they don’t exist. The voices from the first two films in the series are returning, with Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon) joining the… |
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The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons
…writer and the notability of the particular cartoon. In a rare occurrence for these kinds of lists, I don’t think there’s one cartoon in The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons… |
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The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo: The Complete Series
…the show, the Mystery, Inc. gang (Daphne, Shaggy, Scooby-Doo, and Scrappy-Doo) are on their way to Honolulu when they end up high in the Himalayan Mountains. There, they find a… |
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Disney documentary DVD exclusive offer!
…were actually there. The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story is an intimate journey through the lives of Robert and Richard Sherman, the astoundingly prolific Academy Award-winning songwriting team. While their… |
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Prep & Landing landing again
…making the first ‘Prep & Landing’ special, and the response from the audience and our colleagues in the industry was so terrific, that we wanted to bring these great characters… |
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The Art Of Disney’s Tangled: an interview with author Jeff Kurtti
…the early Studio as was classical art. With the new generation of artists, the mistake for those observing from the outside is to overstate the idea of their inspiration. The… |
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SWAT Kats – The Radical Squadron: The Complete Series
…interesting discovery: With all the military hardware that ends up there, they have the means to build their own jet and continue their policing work as vigilantes. They construct their… |
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The Looney Tunes Treasury
…The sturdy, red “obi” type of strip on the back cover gives the book a nice touch of class, even if it obscures some of the artwork. (There is no… |
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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…the ship. There is little for Nausicaa to do to prevent the crash, which is blunt in its terrible destruction. The mystery of the airship is enhanced by the discovery… |
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Peanuts Double Feature: A Boy Named Charlie Brown & Snoopy, Come Home
…has been fairly aggressive in bringing the TV specials to DVD, Paramount has been extremely lame in their handling of the films. They released two bare-bones DVD releases, for the… |
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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snoopy’s Adventures
…the youngest of the Van Pelt children. The first story, Snoopy’s Foot, is probably the best of the bunch. Snoopy breaks his foot while clowning around, just prior to an… |


