Viewed December 1, 2006
Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmas is an anthology film that tells three Christmas-themed stories in Disney style.
The first is a story featuring Donald Duck and his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie. It has some similarities to the classic film Groundhog Day as the nephews wish that every day was Christmas and […]
Viewed November 28, 2006
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut is a project I feel like I’ve waited for my whole life. (In reality, I only learned about it five or six years ago.) I could go on and on about why I loved this movie and why it’s so much better than the […]
Viewed November 7, 2006
Mater and the Ghostlight is a cute little short that is included on the Cars DVD and features a new adventure for Mater, Lightning McQueen and the gang from Radiator Springs. It’s not Pixar’s best DVD exclusive short (that would remain, IMHO, Mike’s New Car), but it’s still a good one.
The key […]
Viewed November 5, 2006
One of the biggest hurdles that most Disney straight-to-video sequels have to clear is maintaining the tone of the original film. Some fail spectacularly (The Lion King 2), while others are surprisingly strong (Alladin and the King of Thieves, Bambi II). Of course, some ignore the original tone completely and […]
Viewed October 28, 2006
Superman: Brainiac Attacks is a straight-to-video animated movie that carries on stylistically from Superman: The Animated Series while reworking the basic characterizations. In fact, these changes to the characters has caused quite a stir amongst fans of the series, who feel that this movie doesn’t properly follow the precedents set.
Okay, I […]
Viewed September 28, 2006
Bambi II is a film I honestly never thought they would make. I mean, it’s one thing to trot out The Lion King 2 or The Little Mermaid II or even Cinderella II: Dreams Come True. But a sequel to Bambi? Well, I prepared myself for the worst and […]
Viewed September 11, 2006
Classic Albums: Pink Floyd - The Making of ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ does a fine job of digging into Pink Floyd’s creative process, while displaying how connected to their work the members of the band have remained over the years.
There is plenty of the classic music of Dark Side of […]
Viewed September 6, 2006
I treid. I swear I tried to go a week without watching an animated film, but I just couldn’t do it. I needed a relatively short film to watch (it ws late and I was tired) and there was a DVD of Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers just sitting […]
Viewed August 14, 2006
As you may know, Toy Story 2 began its life as an intended straight-to-video release, until Disney got a look at what Pixar was cooking up and upgraded the production to a theatrical release. But eventually Disney did produce a straight-to-video movie featuring the characters of Toy Story. […]
Viewed July 16, 2006
Now, just about everyone knows Mark Hamill from the Star Wars saga. Some may be aware that he has a flourishing career in voice-over work (Batman, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Justice League). Some might even know that he is a huge comic book fan. All of these elements […]
Viewed July 5, 2006
Artifact from the Future: The Making of ‘THX-1138′ is the “making of” documentary available on the DVD release of director George Lucas’ first feature film, THX-1138. It follows the development of the film from its earliest incarnation as Lucas’ school USC school project Electronic Labyrinth: THX-1138 4EB (1967). It then follows […]
Viewed June 11, 2006
In the ever-increasing field of CGI animated films, only Ice Age (2001) from 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios comes close to achieving the quality of the Disney / Pixar pairing. Gone Nutty is Blue Sky’s original DVD short about the crazy little “sabre-tooth squirrel” Scrat from Ice Age and […]
Viewed June 7, 2006
I’m not going to kid you. Making Nemo is not a full-fledged documentary on the scale of Empire of Dreams or RKO Production 601. But it is a fairly in-depth look at the production of Finding Nemo (2003), with lots of behind-the-scenes footage and insight into the creative process behind […]
Viewed June 3, 2006
With the release of Pixar Animation Studio’s new film Cars mere days away, I decided (in addition to re-watching all my favorite Pixar stuff) to try and track down all the Pixar material that I had not yet seen and watch it before going to the new film. Turned out there […]
Viewed June 2, 2006
The Characters of Star Wars is a documentary on, well, the characters of the Star Wars trilogy. (Wasn’t that obvious?) I’ve seen many of these kinds of featurettes and documentaries over the years (my favorites: From Star Wars to Jedi (1985) and When Star Wars Ruled The World (2005)). […]
Viewed May 26, 2006
G.I. Joe: Ninja Battles is little more than a promotional film for the G.I. Joe line and the commercial DVD release G.I. Joe: Valor vs. Venom (2004). It’s “animation” is limited to mildly animated still drawings and occasional clips either lifted from Valor vs. Venom or done during that production. […]
Viewed March 22, 2006
G.I. Joe - Spytroops: The Movie was a free giveaway with the purchase of certain G.I. Joe 3 1/4″ action figures back in 2003. While I like the G.I. Joe line, I was never that big into it, so I didn’t get this at the time. However, late last year […]
Viewed March 17, 2006
The debate rages on as to whether Disney devalues its films by releasing straight-to-video sequels like The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000) and Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002). Often, these films lack the spark that made the original so beloved. There are usually several key cast […]
Viewed February 1, 2006
Okay, so it’s not fair to expect much from a “skinemax”-type superhero movie, whose main focus is (quite naturally) the sex. The problem is, I’ve seen good films in the genre, even from the people who made SpiderBabe.
A little over a year ago, my brother told me I should see this […]