Disneyland U.S.A. Walt Disney Treasures (Disney-2001) The Disney Company, in all its market-hogging magic, can trace its TV legacy back to the medium’s inception, in 1954. It was that year in which the fledgling, struggling ABC network invested millions of dollars in the construction of the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California. In return, Walt … Continue reading
Category Archives: Animation
Chris Rock is a Busy Man
CHRIS ROCK IS A BUSY MAN By Brad Balfour However busy actor-comedian Chris Rock is, he never gets so worn out that he can’t crack a joke. And he has enough excuses to be exhausted, having both summer blockbusters, The Longest Yard and Madagascar, coming out on the same Memorial Day weekend. Yet Rock, one of the most … Continue reading
Astro Boy – The Complete Series (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
Astro Boy – The Complete Series (Sony Home Video-2005) Growing up in the sixties, I remember rushing home after school to catch all my favorite shows on local Philly UHF TV stations; Channels 48, 29 and 17. The reception was always a bit fuzzy, the commercials wereatrociously cheap and tacky, but the warm and cozy memories of those cherished shows remains hardwired … Continue reading
The Flintstones – The Complete Third Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
The Flintstones The Complete Third Season (1962-1963) (Warner Brothers-2005) YABBA DABBA DOO … Everyone’s favorite modern stone age family are celebrated on The Flintstones – The Complete Third Season. Focusing on construction worker Fred Flintstone and his curvaceous wife Wilma, his “bestest” buddy Barney Rubble and his better half Betty; the Flintstones took the changing mores and sexual and financial landscape of the early sixties and transplanted … Continue reading
Pooh’s Heffalump Movie (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
POOH’S HEFFALUMP MOVIE (2005) Starring the voices of Jim Cummings, John Fiedler, Nikita Hopkins, Kath Soucie, Ken Sansom, Peter Cullen, Brenda Blethyn, Kyle Stanger, Jim Bennett, David Ogden Stiers and Carly Simon. Screenplay by Brian Hohlfeld and Evan Spiliotopoulos. Directed by Frank Nissen. Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. 68 minutes. Rated G. It’s impossible to … Continue reading
Sky Blue (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
SKY BLUE (2004) Featuring the voices (English Version) of Catherine Cavadini, Marc Worden, Kirk Thornton, David Naughton, Karl Wiedergott, Rebecca Wink, Bob Papenbrook, Andrew Ableson, Sunmin Park, Marc Scarpa, Jamie Simone, Jeffrey Winter and Mark Lindsay. Screenplay by Moon Sang Kim, Jun Young Park and Sunmin Park. English Language Screenplay by Sunmin Park, Howard Rabinowitz … Continue reading
Elf (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
ELF (2003) Starring Will Ferrell, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen, Bob Newhart, Zooey Deschanel, Ed Asner, Daniel Tay, Faizon Love, Peter Dinklage, Amy Sedaris, Michael Lerner, Jon Favreau, Andy Richter, Kyle Gass, Artie Lange, Claire Lautier and the voices of Leon Redbone and Ray Harryhausen. Screenplay by David Berenbaum. Directed by Jon Favreau. Distributed by New … Continue reading
Beauty and the Beast (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
BEAUTY & THE BEAST (1992) Starring the voices of Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury, David Ogden Stiers and Richard White. Screenplay by Linda Woolverton. Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise. Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. 84 minutes. Rated G. How do you take a nearly perfect piece of entertainment and make … Continue reading
Tarzan (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
TARZAN (1999) Starring the voices of Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, Rosie O’Donnell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Hawthorne, Lance Henriksen, Wayne Knight, Alex D. Linz and Taylor Dempsey. Screenplay by Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker and Noni White. Directed by Kevin Lima and Chris Buck. Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. 88 minutes. Rated G. After the … Continue reading