Zathura: A Space Adventure
June 14, 2006
It’s not the most likely of pairings. Take an actor who made his name in Swingers, give him the director’s chair for the sequel to Jumanji, throw in two unknown child actors as leads and hope for the best. Funny then, that that’s just...
The Scooby-Doo / Dynomutt Hour: The Complete Series
May 25, 2006
The Scooby-Doo! Dynomutt Hour originally aired on ABC every Saturday morning and was packaged as an hour-long show with the first half featuring 16 new Scooby-Doo adventures with Scooby-Dum, Scooby-Doo’s dumber cousin (if that’s possible) joining...
Little Manhattan
April 20, 2006
One of the genuine surprises to be released in 2005 was Little Manhattan, a charming, precious (without overdoing it) Woody Allen-esque ode to New York City for the elementary school set. It asks that age old question do girls mature faster than boys...
Howl’s Moving Castle
April 20, 2006
Each new film from world-renowned Japanimator Hayao Miyazaki has become an event and Howl’s Moving Castle, a tale of magic, curses and lost identity doesn’t disappoint. Miyazaki was first brought to mainstream western attention in 2003 when...
My Neighbor Totoro
March 30, 2006
Hayao Miyazaki’s movies have the ability to put you back into that innocent mindset when you were a child and that is was makes them so superior to the current crop of meager Disney fare. His films are filled with beauty and wonder and this is no more...
Mirrormask
March 10, 2006
With Ghost World (2001) and Sin City (2005), comic book creators are taking a more active role in the cinematic adaptations of their work. Following in the footsteps of people like Daniel Clowes and Frank Miller, comic book legends Neil Gaiman and Dave...
The Best of the Electric Company
March 10, 2006
The 1970s were a great time to be a kid. You had the holy quartet of kids’ shows: Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Zoom and The Electric Company. Anyone who remembers watching the Electric Company knows the show’s catchy theme song that starts off...
Corpse Bride
March 7, 2006
Tim Burton returns to the kind of darkly comical gothic material that helped establish his career and reputation with Corpse Bride (2005). He’s also gone back to the same kind of stop motion animation that he utilized so memorably in The Nightmare Before...
Creature Comforts, Vol. 2.2
March 7, 2006
In 2005, Aardman Animations lost a lot of their 30 year history when a storage unit went up in flames destroying irreplaceable storyboards, awards, props and pieces of film memorabilia. Also damaged was material for some of Aardman’s popular projects...
The Polar Express
February 21, 2006
Based on the book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg, it’s something of a mystery why The Polar Express (2004) did not connect with audiences when it was released in theatres last year. Perhaps people weren’t ready to accept that kind of animation...
