Recent Reviews

Animation at the Olympics

Art Culture and Technology (ACT) is attempting to bring animation to this year's Atlanta Olympics as part of an innovative multimedia installation. Mark Segall reports.

The Great Adventures of Izzy--An Olympic Hero for Kids

A look at the making of the first TV special based on an Olympic games mascot.

Transfixed and Goggle-Eyed

R.O. Blechman, who has long charmed us with his films and illustrations, takes a humorous and often sardonic look at the resurgence of all things Disney and what it all means.

Ghost In The Shell

Do You Hear A Whisper In Your Ghost?

Shifting Realities: The Brothers Quay--Between Live Action and Animation

The Brothers Quay, those enigmatic masters of stop motion, have now come forth with The Institute Benjamenta, their first "live-action" feature. Suzanne Buchan takes a look at the film and their career.

Plympton's Metamorphoses

Bill Plympton, the master of the outrageous, is in the midst of making his newest feature, I Married a Strange Person., in which, as Mark Segall reports, the noted animator puts us through some strange changes.

Cartoons On The Bay

Cartoons on the Bay--The International Festival of Animation: Films, TV Series and Fairy Tales is the English name of an Italian international festival held April 15-18 in Amalfi, Italy...

Peaches N' Dreams: Henry Selick's James and the Giant Peach

Before being adapted to the screen, Roald Dahl's children's book, James
and the Giant Peach captured the imagination of several generations of readers since it was first published in 1961.

Cartoons On The Bay

Cartoons on the Bay è il titolo inglese di un festival italianissimo, ma tutto orientato a un grande mercato planetario: quello del disegno animato televisivo di qualità, novità strutturale destinata a scrivere (come del resto già sta facendo) un capitolo totalmente nuovo della storia del cinema d'animazione...

All Dogs Go To Heaven 2

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld
Frankie Kowalski discusses why All Dogs Go to Heaven2 surpasses Bluth's original.