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El Terrible Toreador
Director: Walt Disney Release Date: September 7, 1929 Rating: ★★★ Review: ‘El Terrible Toreador’ is the second entry of the Silly Symphonies. It has been far lesser known than the first, ‘The Skeleton...
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Bully for Pink
Director: Hawley Pratt Release Date: December 14, 1965 Stars: The Pink Panther Rating: ★★★ Review: In ‘Bully for Pink’, the Pink Panther wants to be a bull fighter and so he steals a magical cape to...
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Señor Droopy
Director: Tex Avery Release Date: April 9, 1949 Stars: Droopy, the Wolf, Lina Romay Rating: ★★★★★ ♕ Review: ‘Señor Droopy’ is one of Tex Avery’s most classic cartoons and arguably the best bullfight...
View ArticleA Spanish Twist
Directors: John Foster & George Stallings Release Date: October 7, 1932 Stars: Tom and Jerry Rating: ★★ Review Somehow Tom and Jerry are shipwrecked and plagued by an evil octopus. Lucky for them...
View ArticleI Eats My Spinach
'I Eats My Spinach' is the first cartoon in which an instrumental version of Popeye's theme music accompanies the opening titles. The short opens with the very walking cycle with which Popeye appeared...
View ArticleBulldozing the Bull
In 'Bulldozing the Bull' we suddenly find Popeye in either Mexico or Spain, fancying a latin version of Olive Oyl. Popeye follows the Spanish Olive into the arena, but is suddenly forced to fight the...
View ArticleLittle Pancho Vanilla
'Little Pancho Vanilla' is one of Frank Tashlin's particularly Silly Symphony-like Merrie Melodies. Indeed, the short's star, Little Pancho Vanilla, looks like a grumpy cousin of Disney's Little...
View ArticleFerdinand the Bull
This gentle film is based on the children's book 'The Story of Ferdinand' (1936) by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson, and tells about Ferdinand, a gentle Spanish bull, who loves to sit quietly and smell...
View ArticleHollywood Matador
Director: Walter Lantz Release Date: February 9, 1942 Stars: Woody Woodpecker Rating: ★★★ Review: ‘Hollywood Matador’ is Woody Woodpecker’s contribution to the bullfight cartoon, a trope that comes...
View ArticleFerdinand
The classic children’s book ‘The Story of Ferdinand’ by writer Munro Leaf and illustrator Robert Lawson appeared in 1936, and already in 1938 Walt Disney turned, quite faithfully, the story into an...
View ArticleCzerwone i czarne (The Red and the Black)
'The Red and the Black' is a rare attempt at a gag cartoon in a Polish studio. True, the film's designs are no less avant-garde as that of other contemporary films from the era, this time featuring...
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