Kiki’s Delivery Service: Special Edition
March 11, 2010
Witches are traditionally presented as evil ugly hags in films and television. Sure, there are the notable exceptions but for every Charmed or Practical Magic (1998), there are countless negative portrayals, like Suspiria (1977) or Drag Me to Hell (2009)....
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...
Return from Witch Mountain: Special Edition
March 30, 2009
With the success of Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) a sequel was inevitable and three years later it became a reality with Return from Witch Mountain (1978). Tony (Eisenmann) and Tia (Richards) return to Earth to experience life in a big city. They beam...
Escape to Witch Mountain: Special Edition
March 25, 2009
One of the good things to come from the release of Race to Witch Mountain (2009) is that Disney has gone into their vaults and given the original and much beloved children’s classic Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) the special edition treatment. Disney,...
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...
The Sword in the Stone: 45th Anniversary Edition
June 25, 2008
While not regarded as one of Walt Disney’s animated masterpieces, The Sword in the Stone (1963) is the 18th animated feature in the Disney animated features canon and still a highly regarded film in its own right. This film is the Disney-fied version...
The Spiderwick Chronicles: Two-Disc Field Guide Edition
June 24, 2008
Like The Golden Compass (2007), The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) is an adaptation of a series of popular children’s novels and made in the hopes of kick-starting a lucrative franchise a la Harry Potter. The film received mostly positive reviews and...
