I confess I was concerned about Kung Fu Panda 2. I was expecting the good things the trailers showed, and it had the same excellent production values as the first film, but still… I’m usually not big on sequels, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just saw this sneak preview of the Lorax and I have to say I am skeptical as hell. It looks technically well done and I liked previous work by Illumination Studios, (Despicable Me rocked) but what I’m seeing so far[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I always like to give superhero shows and movies the benefit of the doubt. It is one of my favorite genres after all. Regrettably, this leaves me even more likely to get disappointed when they fail my expectations. So having[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes… I admit it… I’m going with Liszt’s second Hungarian Rhapsody again! But since I did it with Bugs Bunny earlier this year in Rhapsody Rabbit. I thought I’d share it’s great rival The Cat Concerto with Tom & Jerry.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A very happy birthday to Mr. Tex Avery one of the great pioneers in animation. I’ve always loved his surrealistic slapstick. So to celebrate here’s his 1950 MGM classic, Ventriloquist Cat.
Well I finally got my copy of Hotel Transylvania from the library which since I’d been getting constant tastes of it from the film section at the local Barnes and Noble I’d been looking forward to quite a bit. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For the next item in our Halloween playlist we have the opening to The Nightmare Before Christmas composed by Danny Elfman. I’m not a big fan of Elfman’s work,most of the time he sounds like he’s quoting himself, but when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Due to deadlines I’ve been behind on my Pony fix for the last couple of weeks. So I managed to to start playing a little bit of catch up starting with Season 4 episode 10 “Rainbow Falls.” It was a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s Rhapsody we have something fun. Full disclosure here, I’m comfortably sure this doesn’t count as a rhapsody. The score is one of Carl W. Stalling‘s brilliant arrangements (in this case based mostly on Modest Mussorgsky‘s Boris Godunov I think.)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to give myself a nice break and sat down to enjoy some films from one of my favorite animation studios… Aardman Animation. I’ve been a fan of Aardman since Creature Comforts, and have been enjoying their work eversince. Along[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
