Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary

lacks the striking visuals of the Jones cartoons.....And the manic Fred "Tex" Avery has maintained a reputation as a genuine artist....Here, the poor, neglected Friz Freleng, the driving force behind the "Tweety and Sylvester" films, plays Salieri to Jones's Mozart.....Also included is one of my favorites, Freleng's Rabbit's Kin (1952), which suffers from inferior animation.... ... Full Review

[Carl Fredricksen looks, um, up. ?Disney/Pixar] Hey! Listen to me! You really should take your kids to see Up! It's fantastic family fare filled with humour and action and lessons and stuff ! ... Full Article

It's not exactly a religious-art brouhaha of "Piss Christ" proportions, but a painting that uses popular cartoon characters to parody Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" is causing a bit of a stir in Old Town San Diego. ... Full Article

Looney Tunes animated shorts have insinuated into the collective consciousness of America to the point where nearly every person in this country under the age of 70 knows opera primarily on the basis of What's Opera, Doc and The Rabbit... ... Full Article

While each of the Looney Tunes characters had their own personality, even those personalities would differ depending on which era the cartoon was made, and who was directing. ... Full Article

DVD package that compiles some of the best Looney Tunes shorts of all time. There's a gimmick to this four-disc Golden Age set that you need to know about from the start: bitchy Bugs Bunny gets the first disc, the... ... Full Article

By James Keast As animation blossomed in the 1930s, one front-runner emerged: Walt Disney. But not everyone cottoned on to his clean, morally-centred, largely realistic vision of the cartoon world and a handful of his prodigies jumped ship for the... ... Full Article