Frank and Ollie is a highly controlled glimpse at a unique friendship. Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two of Walt Disney's famous Nine Old Men original animators, are such naturals on camera, they'll put a smile on any audience member. The two met at the Stanford Art School in 1931. Sixty years later the next-door neighbors are so close they meet when taking out the garbage. They have seldom …
If you ever played a video game back in the late '80s or early '90s you'll get a sense of what Computer Animation Festival has to offer. In this day and age of virtual reality and a more accomplished Nintendo and Playstation mentality, this DVD is strictly shareware and historical archive. Though it contains 19 of the "best" of computer animation shorts, almost everything in the volume feels da…
A recurring theme in the ongoing tale of this unhappily happily married British couple (seen regularly on Comedy Central after winning a Best Animated Short Oscar) is their repeated debate about having kids, even while all about them they're confronted with living, breathing, squealing reasons to avoid life's little miracles. This volume explores that topic in-depth--the first episode concerns …