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The Croods: A New Age
…its job of providing some production context, background information and exploring various aspects of the show, there’s a slight lack of pizazz among the participants, considering how many there are… |
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Lego Star Wars – The Freemaker Adventures: Complete Season One
…of things to have a “bad feeling” about. Familiar faces show up too— aside from Darth Vader, there’s Lando (voiced by Billy Dee himself!), hutts, some rebelling Wookies, Maz Kanata,… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…I experienced a very positive shock: not only was Rose answering most of the questions I had about his department, he also mentioned something fascinating, the fact that he had… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 1
…producers and writers. There is a disclosure for audio commentaries featured before the discs begins, but it only serves to get your hopes up as there is nothing included here…. |
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Mary Poppins’ Richard M. Sherman: A Practically Perfect Songwriter!
…don’t take place at the turn of the century. There is no storyline not so ever in any of the Poppins books. They’re all about wonderful characters and wonderful incidents,… |
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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…Troy Quane, Nimona is an epic tale about finding friendship in the most surprising situations and accepting yourself and others for who they are, based on the National Book Award-nominated… |
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Warner Archive: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! – The Complete Vitaphone Shorts Collection
…for this review in one or two sittings because, if there’s anything that becomes monotonous over the course of the films, it’s just the constant stream of trivia that Ripley… |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…the depiction of rockets, but it is funny to hear about the validity of science being present in a movie about a wooden boy flying through space with a talking… |
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Onward
…But there’s something special about getting to enter one of the studio’s unique world’s for the first time. In thirteen previous visits, I’ve only been disappointed once. In other words,… |
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Hanna-Barbera, The Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age To Meddling Kids
…knew there were a lot more records out there, based on house ads on the records or books themselves, as well as seeing store displays. However, I was too busy… |
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Trolls World Tour
…even if it manages to come close to them. There’s still all of the Twizzlers-friendly pleasure that you loved (or maybe didn’t) about the previous adventure, but it’s missing some… |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
…major roles, their presence lends itself to showing that there’s more than just humans, elves, and dwarves. There’s the eagle-like aarakocra and the aptly named dragonborn conversing with the characters…. |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part One
…those that already have the three previous single releases of the show, there is nothing new here, and therefore no big reason to upgrade other than to sell the other… |
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
…the title of the film for details!) When she finds out there is even more being hidden about her family than she knew, she sets off to find out the… |
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Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd
…left out there. And there is magic in Onward indeed! In every bit of it. And in every note of the score composed by Mychael and Jeff Danna. The two… |
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Santa Inc.
…that, a reference is made to the size of Prancer the reindeer’s junk. Then there’s more profanity. Lots more profanity. Then there are “jokes” about women being sexually assaulted at… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…amount of richness in the big shots. AV: When watching Oni, I thought about films like Pom Poko or Summer Days with Coo, which speak about Japanese culture and the… |
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Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One
…And Reddy was still playing along with a couple of other Hanna-Barbera shows (one with a slow-talking dog, as I recall), but there was not much else besides repeated airings… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
…dark. And no, I’m not talking about the tone. I’m talking about the screen being so shaded that I could barely tell what was going on or even get a… |
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Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra
…the comic has come to life. The animation is not quite as fluid as Disneys, but is still much better than today’s television output. There’s lots of fun to be… |
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Star Trek – Lower Decks: Season 1
…surrounds and rear speakers get a modest workout, and there is light use of bass. The English track is available in 5.1 or 2.0. There are English captions, and no… |
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Composer Henry Jackman takes us on a musical journey to Strange World
…but organic, not so technological world. It is very much a celebration of the symphony orchestra in all of its pomp and glory. That’s not to say that there’s not… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season 1, Volume 1
…the evil Hordak and his minions. The Sweatbox Review: There’s something fascinating about She-Ra as an animated heroine. After 25 years of entertaining children and adults, she has endured as… |
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Welcome…to Moana orchestrator and song arranger Dave Metzger!
…films myself. I think there’s a little part of me that just exists from listening to them so much. Those are kind of the easiest things for me to do!… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
…that wanted to make a difference with her short. I wanted that, something that was not just about making money, but making a change in the perspective of others towards… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided
…like it out there. Each episode is meticulously detailed and there are many Easter eggs embedded into the background animation that should please hardcore fans of the films. The show… |
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Director Luiz Bolognesi tells A Story Of Love And Fury
…about the intriguing film and its unlikely production, we talked about it with no less than its director, Luiz Bolognesi. Animated Views: Mr. Bolognesi, how did you come to animation?… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #44: Interviews with Alan Menken & Richard Sherman
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! A conference call with Disney songwriters and legends Alan Menken and Richard Sherman, where they talk about their upcoming concert where they’ll sing from “The… |
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Star Wars: Visions
…English dubbing. The voice acting is very good and manages to stay as much in sync with the animation as possible. There’s something to be said that some of the… |
