‘Yellow Submarine’ – An Animation Thesis

Fifty years ago, feature animation and popular music came together, and created something glorious. My next pick for "Animation Thesis" is, unlike the three films before it, something that the House of Mouse was never involved with in any way... Yet, the House of Mouse considering doing a remake of it at one point in …

The Many Logos of Disney Home Ent.

I'm a long-time Disney VHS collector who is fascinated by the little details that differentiate tapes, from all the different eras of Disney's home media division. In a way, it's kind of odd... Walt Disney Home Video had a logo before Walt Disney Productions proper. Walt Disney's films, up until the mid-1950s, had been distributed …

When Computer Animation Stopped Being Exciting For Me

Days have passed. A lot of the recent, unfortunate news concerning Pixar has somewhat blown over, though many fans - such as myself - are still in some state of mental disarray. A rumor concerning John Lasseter's actual exit from The Walt Disney Company as a whole - leaving the top chairs vacant at Pixar, …

It’s Time to Stop: An ‘Incredibles 2’ Rant

First thing's first... This is not a rant about the existence of Pixar's Incredibles 2. I'm very much looking forward to the sequel to one of my all-time favorite films. Sorry if the title gave you a near jolt! No, this is more a rant about something that happens almost every time a popular Pixar …

Little Obsessions: Finding a Song

One of my weirder little interests is production music. What is production music? Recordings meant for anyone to use, like stock music. To my understanding, you get to use it for a small fee in whatever it is you're making, be it a TV show, film, what have you. As such, it's very common in …

‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ – An Animation Thesis…

My next pick for animation thesis isn't an all-animated film, but it contains a lot of animation... Pure animation, too. Not VFX trickery and lifelike creations. Who Framed Roger Rabbit... A Walt Disney Pictures/Amblin Entertainment film released under Disney's Touchstone banner, spearheaded by Back to the Future trilogy director Robert Zemeckis and executive producer Steven Spielberg, …

The Odd Parallels Between Disney’s Animation and The Beach Boys…

Maybe I'm totally reaching with this, but I'm gonna go for it... Disney Animation and The Beach Boys are very similar to each other... Like, really similar. Both are American, both have hailed from California, and both are as iconic as baseball, apple pie, and the red, white, and blue. Both also are more than …

‘The Thief and the Cobbler’ – Another Animation Thesis

Weeks back, I wrote about how Walt Disney's 75-year-old animated feature film Bambi not only holds up, but is an animation thesis that argues why animation is an incredible medium. Some of animation's most special qualities are rather ignored today in the world of American mainstream animation, as we are pelted year after year with …

‘Bambi’: An Animation Thesis, 75 Years Later…

A nice little break from the more personal stuff and ramblings, I wanted to talk about Walt Disney's Bambi... Yesterday, August 9th, marked the 75th Anniversary of the film's world premiere in London, which predated the general American wide release by a few weeks. Disney recently re-released the title on Blu-ray to celebrate, in an edition …

Imitation? Part 2

A few months ago, I was inspired to write a piece after discussing a very derivative movie with my blogger/reviewer friend Rachel. She had then recently seen the Canadian/South Korean animated feature Spark, which saw a brief limited theatrical release here in North America in the middle of April. It came and went, no one …