Yogi Bear (Blu-Ray)
April 8, 2011
Yogi Bear, or, Is A Bear Shit In The Woods? It’s fair to say that the dearly departed William Hanna and Joseph Barbera had a knack for creating memorable cartoons characters. The list is as long as your arm – Top Cat, Hong Kong Phooey, Wacky Races,...
Fantasia/Fantasia 2000
November 29, 2010
It seems amazing now but in the late 1930s Mickey Mouse’s popularity was waning. Donald Duck was proving to be more popular with movie-going audiences. However, Mickey was Walt Disney’s favourite character and he devised a special short film that...
The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery in the Mist Edition
April 12, 2010
Based on the series of children’s books entitled Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus, The Great Mouse Detective (1986) came out at a time when Disney was at one of its lowest ebbs, both creatively and commercially. They were a directionless studio in...
Fantastic Mr. Fox
April 6, 2010
When it was announced that Wes Anderson would be adapting Roald Dahl’s short story Fantastic Mr. Fox, it came as something of a surprise. Up to that point, Anderson had only made films based on original material that he created himself or with a co-collaborator....
G.I. JOE: Season 1.1
July 17, 2009
The early 1980s was a good time for cartoons. Not only were several shows from the 1970s still in syndication but a whole new wave of cartoons emerged, including The Transformers and G.I. JOE. Supported by an impressive line of actions figures and an...
The Transformers: The Complete First Season (25th Anniversary)
June 12, 2009
When The Transformers debuted on American television in September 1984 with the episode “More than Meets the Eye,” a whole generation of kids fell in love with transformable robots and the accompanying toys became all the rage, spawning a legitimate...
Gulliver’s Travels
March 23, 2009
In the 1930s, Walt Disney’s most formidable competition was the Fleischer brothers, Dave and Max. They pioneered numerous innovations in animation as is evident in the short films that they made about Popeye and Superman. In the ‘30s, they embarked...
Pinocchio: 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition
March 13, 2009
Pinocchio (1940) marked Walt Disney’s second foray into animated feature film territory, after the phenomenonal success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Based on Pinocchio: Tale of a Puppet by Carlo Collodi, early drafts stuck closely to the...
Sleeping Beauty: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
November 13, 2008
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, lived a beautiful princess. CGI was a phrase unknown to mankind. Hollywood introduced us to computers, giant boxes with blinking Christmas lights, their workings a mystery to everyone except Martians. The moniker...
Code Monkeys: Season 1
September 12, 2008
Code Monkeys is a television show for anyone who owned a Commodore 64 personal computer or played Pac Man for hours. It’s a show for people who can remember seeing Tron or E.T. in theaters back in 1982 and yet with a nod to contemporary gross-out humour....
