Dark Horse and Middle-earth Enterprises have officially unveiled a new 3-piece collectible figure set featuring Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee and Aragorn, inspired by the appearance J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved characters from Ralph Bakshi’s classic 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. The collectible set is available to pre-order now, priced at $89.99; check out […]
Ralph Bakshi: A Forgotten Pioneer
Simon Thompson takes a deep dive into the career of pioneering animated filmmaker Ralph Bakshi… This is only tangentially related to the topic at hand but I’m going to draw this parallel anyway; when the great American author Hubert Selby Jr died and a documentary was made about him and one of the talking heads […]
Blu-ray Review – The Lord of the Rings (1978)
The Lord of the Rings, 1978. Directed by Ralph Bakshi. Featuring the voice talents of Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Scholes, John Hurt, Simon Chandler, Dominic Guard, Michael Graham Cox, Anthony Daniels, and David Buck. SYNOPSIS: It says “Remastered Deluxe Edition” on this new Blu-ray release of Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings from […]
Shout! Factory bringing Ralph Bakshi’s Cool World to Blu-ray
Director Ralph Bakshi’s (The Lord of the Rings) cult 1992 live-action/animated hybrid Cool World – starring Brad Pitt, Kim Basinger and Gabriel Byrne – is coming to Blu-ray this September with a special Collector’s Edition release from Shout! Factory. Check out the artwork here, along with the bonus features… When ex-con cartoonist Jack Deebs (Gabriel […]
Sony hires Robert Rodriguez to direct live-action Fire And Ice
Robert Rodriguez has been tapped to direct the live-action version of Ralph Bakshi’s Fire And Ice with hopes of a franchise. This marks a reunion of sorts for Rodriguez and Sony as El Mariachi (the film that launched his career) was picked up by Columbia Pictures, a division of the entertainment company, back in 1992. […]
