Many a baby boomer sat glued to their TV sets in the 1960s, entranced by Japanese cartoon shows. Long before they were redubbed "anime, " programs like "Gigantor," "Kimba The White Lion" and "Marine Boy" were [...]
"Bambi" was never one of my favorite Disney films. It just never grabbed me the way "Fantasia, " "Snow White" or even "Sleeping Beauty" does. But there’s no denying it’s in the upper pantheon of great Disney [...]
Pixar’s latest film has just arrived on DVD in another one of Disney’s great 2-disc Collector’s Editions. This time the geniuses at Pixar have teamed up with Brad Bird, the mastermind behind "The Iron Giant" and, many of the greatest [...]
Will Smith provides the voice of Oscar, a small time fish who dreams of bigger things than working at a local Whale Wash. Trying time and time again to get rich and famous through fast failed ideas, Oscar is up to his gills in debt to his boss, a puffer [...]
It’s almost holiday season and the folks at Dreamworks are bringing the hit "Shrek 2" to DVD just in time for Christmas. Released in theaters earlier this year "Shrek 2" earned almost a whopping billion dollars in worldwide box [...]
Back in the early 90’s Disney was on a roll with its animated features. With the massive hit "Beauty & The Beast" behind them, Disney’s next project had a lot of expectations to live up to. Led by the directing-writing-producing team of [...]
In 1982 a film appeared in theaters around the globe that was magical and completely different from anything we had ever seen on the silver screen. Jim Henson and Frank Oz, the inventors of numerous puppet TV specials, including the award-winning and [...]
Pixar Studios has a reputation for putting out some of the most technically advanced and entertaining computer generated films. They seem to have the magic touch, always managing to never let technology get in the way of their storytelling, thus creating [...]
Following in the footsteps of the original 1967 Walt Disney movie "The Jungle Book" is certainly no easy task, and yet, the studio tries. "The Jungle Book 2" is not a mere direct-to-video film, though. It is a feature film that ran in [...]
As a little kid growing up in the late 1970s my afternoons revolved around the TV adventures of "Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot, " "Ultraman," and "Kimba the White Lion." So why am I blathering on about all of this? Well [...]
