A Hare Grows in Manhattan
Director: Friz Freleng Release Date: May 22, 1947 Stars: Bugs Bunny Rating: ★★★ Review: ‘A Hare Grows in Manhattan’ starts with a great premise: Bugs is a Hollywood star who has it made. He is visited...
View ArticleHurdy-gurdy Hare
Director: Robert McKimson Release Date: January 21, 1950 Stars: Bugs Bunny Rating: ★★½ Review: In this cartoon Bugs Bunny apparently lives in Central Park, New York. He buys a hurdy-gurdy with a monkey...
View ArticleMouse in Manhattan
Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera Release Date: July 7, 1945 Stars: Tom & Jerry Rating: ★★★★★ ♕ Review: Tired of the country life, Jerry heads for Broadway, where he admires the big...
View ArticleSocial Lion
Director: Jack Kinney Release date: October 15, 1954 Rating: ★★ Review: In this narrated short a lion deliberately gets himself caught to scare the people in New York. Unfortunately, he’s all but...
View ArticleOliver & Company
Director: George Scribner Release Date: November 13, 1988 Rating: ★★ Review: Oliver and Company’ is the Walt Disney studio’s third film about dogs, after ‘Lady and the Tramp‘ (1955) and ‘One Hundred...
View ArticleFarmer Al Falfa Sees New York
In 1915 Paul Terry joined the Bray studio and introduced a character of his own called farmer Al Falfa.
View ArticlePhantom Boy
2015 was a good year for French animation. June already saw the release of the great movies ‘Avril et le monde truqué' (April and the Extraordinary World) and ‘Tout en haut du monde’ (Long Way North),...
View ArticleJames and the Giant Peach
Based on the children’s book by Roald Dahl from 1961 ‘James and the Giant Peach’ is, in fact, a hybrid, starting and ending as a live action movie, with the middle forty minutes (ca. half the movie)...
View ArticleThe Wind of Changes
Based on the reminiscences of violinist and composer Alex Balanescu 'The Wind of Changes' is one of Phil Mulloy's longest and most poetical films.
View ArticleDig: A Journey into the Earth
'Dig' is a children's film about geology and paleontology.
View ArticleHeavy Traffic
Ralph Bakshi arrived on the scene when American classic studio animation was in steady decline, reaching its low point in the 1970s and early 1980s. In this dry period, Bakshi tried to reinject classic...
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