Tag: donbluth
Now Streaming: THE PEBBLE AND THE PENGUIN, Underrated Don Bluth Film
Filmmaker Don Bluth is underrated as it is, and so is this movie. Usually, when people think of penguins in movies, they think of Happy Feet or maybe Surf's Up, but The Pebble and the Penguin (1995) is an overlooked...
70s Rewind: Disney's THE RESCUERS, Fun for Kids, Diverting for Adults Too
The theatrical release of Pixar's Coco, distributed by Disney, prompted me to watch The Rescuers (1977), a hand-drawn animated artifact that, it turns out, holds up quite well. As many children of my generation did, I grew up in the...
Classic Animated movie Review: Anastasia, a classic historical musical drama from 1997!
In the 1980s, a new legend in animated movies Don Bluth made his breakthrough with the 1984 classic "Secrets of Nimh" and finished the 80s with a bang with the 1989 classic "Land Before Time". Don is also the man...
DRAGON'S LAIR: THE MOVIE Starts Crowdfunding Campaign
The budget for a modern animated movie starts in the neighborhood of $75 million, so the crowdfunding campaign for a movie version of video arcade game Dragon's Lair is not intended to raise that kind of money. No, the intention...
