A Disney classic and sequel bring the adventure of being in a computer to life Tron: Legacy *** 3 Stars/ Tron the Original ****4 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

Tron Legacy, Olivia Wilde kicks electrons

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 4/19/2011 – “Whenever I see a big epic film where the character has aged from being a young boy to an old man, traditionally there are different actors playing him in those stages,” says Tron star Jeff Bridges. “That’s always a little bump for me as I’m sitting there, when they change from one actor to the next. But now as an actor it’s very gratifying to know that I can play myself or the character that I’m playing at any age, from an infant to an old man. That’s really exciting, especially to be part of this groundbreaking technology.”

The Blu-ray set includes the original Tron and the sequel.

In the original Tron movie, Jeff Bridges gets diced by an experimental laser and sucked into the master computer. To get out he forms alliances with programs developed by his coworkers. He must get back to the outside world to save the company and the world from (more…)

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Disney brings adventure, humor, music and romance to Tangled fairytale  **** 4 stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

Tangled, the fiftieth animated feature from Disney, now on Blu-ray

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 3/29/2011 – “Rapunzel is a young woman who is on the eve of her 18th birthday,” says Tangled star Mandy Moore., the voice of Rapunzel. “She’s becoming an adult and she finds herself in a situation where she’s able to go beyond the tower walls that have shielded her all her life. She ends up on a crazy adventure with a young man called Flynn Rider. She has the time of her life.”

Rapunzel is Disney’s 50^th full-length animated feature film. It’s a modern twist on the classic story of Rapunzel, the girl who has long magical hair. Rapunzel spends her (more…)

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Final season shows Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus growing up  *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

Hannah Montona final season on DVD

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 3/8/2011 – “Fans of the show around the world deserve a really respectful ending,” says Hannah Montana Miley Cyrus. The Disney Channel aired the series finale in January 2011 to 6.2 million viewers, the channel’s highest ratings ever in the hour for total viewers and kids age 6 to 11.

Hannah Montana premiered in 2006, shot over 100 episodes and was aimed for tweens. The humor was silly and corny at times, but fun. As Miley Cyrus grew up her character had to grow up too. At times the humor stayed the same and didn’t age with the character and audience. In this the last year it did improve. They all seemed to (more…)

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Great music with songs sung by Cher and Christina Aguilera, and the dancing is fun to watch*** 3 Stars

by Gabrielle Pantera

Burlesque, great dance numbers, Aguilera and Cher can sing

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 3/4/2011 – “I could relate to Ali as a whole: having this dream, being denied, getting a chance, and getting people to take you seriously,” says Burlesque star Christina Aguilera. Ali, a small-town girl with a big voice, comes to Los Angeles looking for fame. Instead, she gets a job as a waitress at The Burlesque Lounge. Tess, played by Cher, is the club’s stubborn owner who isn’t ready to give anyone a break.

Ali learns the dance routines on her own and becomes friends with the bartender Jack, played by Cam Gigandet. Tess’ partner Sean, played by Stanley Tucci, gives Ali her break. Peter Gallagher plays Tess’ ex-husband and co-owner of the club. “This is my mother-in-law’s world,” says Gallagher. “She danced at Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe and the Latin Quarter and at Radio City in the ballet (more…)

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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment releases Bambi  Diamond Edition on Blu-ray **** 4 stars

 

by Gabrielle Pantera

 

Bambi restored to Blu-ray

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 3/4/2011 – Bambi was Walt Disney’s fifth animated full-length feature film. First released in 1942 during World War II, it took approximately five years to make. Animators modeled anatomical studies using live animals including a pair of fawns named Bambi and Faline. The exquisite artwork was created by many of the Disney “nine old men”,  including Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, Marc Davis, Milt Kahl and Eric Larson. The forest home received the same painstaking attention to detail. Background artists painted hundreds of landscapes based on extensive field research and nature photographs.

 

Walt Disney cast child actors as (more…)

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Alice In Wonderland  60^th Anniversary Special Edition released on Blu-ray and DVD  **** 4 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

Disney's Alice in Wonderland a children's hit

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 2/18/2011 – “I think the book Alice in Wonderland is popular because it’s completely absurd,” says Disney supervising animator Eric Goldberg. “It doesn’t grab your heartstrings the way Bambi or Pinocchio or Dumbo does, but it’s sure fun.”  This is the original Disney Alice more suited to families than the darker version of Alice in Wonderland created by Tim Burton for Disney.

Alice’s Wonderland, 1923, was Walt Disney’s first successful short film, the film that launched his career. Walt tried many times over the years to make a feature-length Alice. An attempt with Ginger Rogers was abandoned but became a record. Walt’s plan to make Alice his first feature was shelved in order to make Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937. Walt wouldn’t make his Alice feature until 1951.

This 60th Anniversary Special Edition of Walt Disney’s original animated version of (more…)

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Interview with Jim Carrey and Colin Firth describes making this classic tale of Christmas greed, but it may be too scary for little ones *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

A Christmas Carol, Disney motion capture of Dickens classic

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 12/2/2010 – “The wonderful thing about this digital process is that I can be cast in roles that I would never be cast in,” says A Christmas Carol star Jim Carrey, the voice of Scrooge. “If I have it in my soul to play a character, it doesn’t matter what my face looks like, or my age. I find that really liberating.”

“The process of being scanned before you start acting is quite an extraordinary experience to go through,” says A Christmas Carol star Colin Firth, the voice of Scrooge’s nephew Fred. “You have to put your head in a pink, gummy thing that’s normally used to (more…)

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Powerful ocean documentary narrated by Pierce Brosnan is released on Blu-ray and DVD **** 4 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

Disneynature Oceans, a baby sea turtle makes a dangerous daylight dash on the beach

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 11/1/2010 – “In a very real sense, the ocean is alive,” says Disneynature Oceans narrator Pierce Brosnan. “As hard as we try, as far as we look, nobody has ever spotted an ocean like ours out in space.”

Oceans beautifully chronicles the mysteries that lie beneath the sea. Directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud sent cameramen on dives around the world with advanced rebreather aqualung technology  that allows them to stay underwater for five hours and doesn’t create distracting bubbles. It features new (more…)

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Miley Cyrus struggles in leap from child star to female lead ** 2 stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

Miley Cyrus mad at dad in The Last Song

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 10/11/2010 – “I think it’s really important to look for roles that are challenging,” says The Last Song star Miley Cyrus. “This came up at a crazy time. I had a tour. I was working on the show. I thought it might be impossible to fit this in, but it all fell into place. I love music and I love entertaining.”

The role required Cyrus to learn to play the piano, which she says she picked up quickly. “Maybe it was easier because I already play guitar. I learned not just how to play a song but how to play it like a classically trained musician…the way to sit, the way you look when you’re at the piano, the posture, the fingering. The learning experiences are a part of my job I really love.”

The Last Song is Miley Cyrus’ jump from child star to female lead in feature films. The concept is good, but unfortunately it (more…)

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25th Anniversary Special Edition of the story of a pig keeper with a psychic pig against Tim Burton’s scary villains *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

Tim Burton left Disney after The Black Cauldron

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 10/11/2010 – Tim Burton left Disney soon after his work on the creative art of The Black Cauldron. His dark style didn’t mesh with the trademark style at Disney. The Black Cauldron is a mix of animation styles.

The Black Cauldron, based on the Chronicles of Prydain books by Lloyd Alexander, is the fantasy adventure story of Taran, an apprentice pig keeper who dreams of becoming a great warrior. Taren may regret what he wished for when Hen Wen, a pig he’s been caring for, becomes the key to finding the long lost Black Cauldron, a supernatural prison for an ancient king so evil the gods feared him. Now the evil Horned King wants to find the (more…)

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