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A Conversation with Terry Rawlings
…there was Ken Russell, Our Mother’s House was in there somewhere, Isadora… AV: With Winner and Russell, was that intentional to keep working alternatively on their films, or was it… |
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Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Edition
…on the Russians lowering their weapons, the Russian colonel once again, after a brief pause, raises his. The Russian army men behind him look perplexed as they slowly follow his… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete Series
…success, with NBC running the show until 1970, when a “sequel” series featuring the Flintstones and Rubbles’ grown up children aired. An alternate, futuristic version of the same premise, The… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…ruin the celebrations. The frogs launch into the main theme, We All Stand Together, a wonderful piece of animation worthy of Disney, before the owl makes his move. Luckily, Rupert… |
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Rudolph And Frosty’s Christmas In July
…little puppets movie around the screen and imbuing the watcher with holiday cheer. Rudolph, of course, had been animated in this fashion in two TV specials previously, but Rudolph And… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…run an Elstree Film Festival in the second week of festivities – something that is a lot of fun, but a lot of extra work! So, in the weeks leading… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…swapped for a CG cartoon (created by Sony Imageworks, who just can’t get away from rubbery humanoids) instead. There had been rumors that Singer had lost interest in the film… |
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Disney Blu-ray 3D Reissues: Chicken Little / Meet The Robinsons / Bolt / G-Force
…Runt and Fish with a little more background but not much else. Also from the DVD, what seems like a potted documentary, Hatching Chicken Little, runs just over a concise… |
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Ruby-Spears’ Superman: DC Comics Classic Collection
…Alas, Superman was only to run but a single season, and signalled the beginning of the end of the Ruby-Spears studio, though it did continue to turn out occasional specials… |
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Rudolph / Frosty / Santa Claus: The Original Christmas Classics
…another Rudolph adventure, and the pair teamed up for the ill-received Rudolph And Frosty’s Christmas In July. Despite the switching the animation style to stop-motion and running as a full… |
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Christmas goes Pink!
…2011 holiday period. Full details can be read here: RUBICON STUDIOS TEAMS WITH MGM ON NEW ANIMATED PINK PANTHER CHRISTMAS SPECIAL A VERY PINK CHRISTMAS Rubicon Studios is once again… |
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Rock & Rule: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
…a superb edition of 1983’s Rock & Rule from the appropriately named Unearthed Films. Rock & Rule has the distinction of being the very first animated feature that was produced… |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…detail that even the shorts received; it easily beats today’s somewhat rushed and formulaic work. On the other hand, however, Babbitt’s 1930s model for Mickey feels surprisingly “off model”. I… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1980s: Volume 1
…already an established cartoon powerhouse by the time 1980 arrived. Ruby-Spears was founded in the late 1970s as a production company modeled after Hanna-Barbera, and was run in much of… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…Of Lady And The Tramp, which runs over 52 minutes if selected as a Play All option. The piece runs though Walt’s early years in Marceline, Missouri, and its inspiration… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…video shelves. The Woodpecker cartoons did make an earlier appearance on DVD through the exclusive Time-Life collections. This anticipated 20-volume series was to have run all of the cartoons in… |
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The first Minions: The Rise of Gru trailer is here
…doesn’t go well (to say the least), and only gets worse after Gru outsmarts them and suddenly finds himself the mortal enemy of the apex of evil. On the run,… |
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Get groovy with the full Minions: The Rise of Gru trailer
…despicable crew and faced off against the most unstoppable criminal force ever assembled in Minions: The Rise of Gru. Long before he becomes the master of evil, Gru (Oscar® nominee… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two
…Christmas Carol, The Prince And The Pauper and Runaway Brain, presented on home video in their original ratios for the very first time! The Sweatbox Review: On May 15 1928,… |
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The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition
…additional “voice cast” featurette, but at least one character is outlined later on. A Play All option runs them together as an almost “alternate” documentary, running almost 41 minutes. Next… |
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The Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken trailer makes a big splash
…in the water. But when she breaks her mom’s #1 rule, Ruby will discover that she is a direct descendant of the warrior Kraken queens and is destined to inherit… |
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Despicable Me despicably on Blu-ray and DVD!
…Gru’s Rocket Builder—In an all-new game, Vector has stolen some of the most famous landmarks from around the world and replaced them with the pieces to Gru’s rocket. Players must… |
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Invader Zim: House Box Complete Set
…2D animation. The entire set runs over 650 minutes (the advertised running time is 225 minutes per volume), with individual discs running between 1.5 and 2 hours each. Each episode… |
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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…Fru Fru; Duke The Musical, exploring Duke Weaselton’s desire for success; The Godfather of the Bride, where Mr. Big narrated his backstory; So You Think You Can Prance, with Clawhauser… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Two
…time the Road Runner (and Friends, as the sleeve notes). Shorts to be found here all contain some pun on speed with their titles (a traditional Chuck Jones/Road Runner touch)… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…McGoohan was able to dictate the rules. Running from 1964 until 1967 and, stealing a page from Walt’s handbook to put out a two-part adventure as a feature spin-off, Koroshi… |
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The Incredibles
…of a city where Syndrome’s Omnidroid robot flips out and causes havoc. As this is about happen, the population runs from their cars and the sidewalks to hide, leaving the… |
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Superman: Ruby-Spears on their Man Of Steel
…popular films via an opening theme score that was remarkably similar to John Williams’ acclaimed Superman music. Ruby-Spears Productions was founded in 1977 by veteran writers Joe Ruby and Ken… |
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Plastic Man: The Complete Collection
…and Transformers ruled. One of the companies producing TV animation during the era was Ruby-Spears Enterprises, a mini-Studio who managed to churn out some decent shows among the stinkers (I’ll… |
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Transformers: 2-Disc Special Edition
…a Play All option runs all these featurettes together for a total running length of 65 minutes. Almost finally, More Than Meets The Eye: desert attack, concepts and trailers rounds… |
