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Oscar Night 2024
The 96th Annual Academy Awards are tonight and we’ll be discussing it live with readers like you in our chat room. Join us as we talk the people, the story-lines, and the awards… and keep track of who’s winning our Oscar Contest. |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
Time to relive the past year again, which kind of, sort of, not really quite got us back on track but still served up some treats. We share our faves, and your picks too! |
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The 2023 AV Readers’ Choice Poll
Critics, the Academy, Hollywood guilds, and even the Animated Views staff will tell you what they think. But now it’s your turn to be the critic! What was the the best animated film of 2023? |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
The veteran composer, arranger, and orchestrator discusses composing the score for Disney’s latest film, intended as a celebration of the studio’s 100th anniversary year. |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
Thunderbean’s greatest achievement is here, as Steve Stanchfield and his team bring Ub Iwerks’ 1930s creation to high definition disc, with all shorts lovingly restored and accompanied by scads of quality bonus features. |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
With 21 stop-motion puppet films and seven hand-drawn animated shorts, this third volume of George Pal’s classic cartoons is overflowing with creativity, fun, and simply amazing artistry! |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
Whether you started reading in 2003 or found us in the years since, how well do you actually know the writers who bring you Animated Views? For our 20th anniversary, the AV staff answers 20 questions about the site, their opinions, and themselves. |
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From the Archives: The Animated News Weekly
After some excavation deep into the embarrassingly cluttered AV archives, we discovered some long lost content: the newsletters we published in the years after our 2003 launch! |
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Best Animated Year Poll – 20th Anniversary Edition
On our 10th anniversary we asked you to pick the best year for animation during our existence. Now it’s time to vote again, this time for the top annual slate of movies during our second decade. |
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Twenty Years of AV
Wow. Twenty years. There’s no way we’ve been doing this for two decades! But it’s true. Animated Views turns 20 today. That puts us among the ranks of Wikipedia, YouTube, and Twitter – in terms of longevity, at least! |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
An exclusive recap of the annual convention, including coverage of The Owl House, the Sand Land world premiere, Tiny Toons Looniversity, Critical Role, Fleischer Studios, and the X-Men Hellfire Gala. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Cowabunga! Mutant Mayhem should please newcomers and longtime fans alike with its endearing characters and brilliant animation. |
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Pixar production designer Don Shank in his element with Elemental
The new Pixar film had the challenge of presenting a livable world that could accommodate four different types of beings. Read how this was approached, in our exclusive interview. |
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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
Aside from a great tale, much of Nimona‘s success lies in its visual design. Read how the production designer brought the graphic novel to life. |
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is a beautiful looking film, featuring a predictable plot, some irritating characters, and a too-easily-wrapped-up ending. But none of that drags it down too much for kids. |
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Elemental
Elemental continues Pixar’s recent trend of middling movies that, with the addition of a few important missing elements, could have been great. |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Alright, let’s do this one more time. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse looks great and its actors are outstanding. But we’ll have to do this one more time again before we know where it’s going. |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Honor Among Thieves doesn’t just succeed in being an excellent adaption of Dungeons & Dragons. It rolls a critical success on being downright fun! |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
Make a history check with this exploration of the few adaptations of Dungeons & Dragons that made it to the screen ahead of the upcoming theatrical adventure. |
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Oscar Night 2023
The big night is here! Oscar statuettes will be bestowed on lucky filmmakers this evening at the 95th Annual Academy Awards. And we’ll be covering it as part of our annual Oscar event, now in its 19th year! |
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Animated Views’ 2023 Oscar Contest
Animated Views is giving away $50 worth of movies — your choice of either an Amazon or Fandango gift card — during our 19th Annual Oscar Event! Enter today for your chance to win! |
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Meet My Dad The Bounty Hunter‘s Dads
Netflix is set to debut another quality animated series. Meet the creators in this exclusive interview. |
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Popeye The Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons
See why one of the most popular cartoon TV shows in history had such variable quality, in this informative and insightful book from Popeye expert Fred M. Grandinetti. |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
Join us for our annual recap of the highlights and lowlights of the past twelve months, including your Readers’ Choice of the top animated movies of the year! |
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The 2022 AV Readers’ Choice Poll
Critics, the Academy, Hollywood guilds, and even the Animated Views staff will tell you what they think. But now it’s your turn to be the critic! What was the the best animated film of 2022? |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
Read about the latest animation to appear soon on Apple TV+, as a book transitions to become a lovely and charming short film. |
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Composer Henry Jackman takes us on a musical journey to Strange World
Learn what makes the accomplished composer’s music for the Disney film so appropriately unique. |
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Disney historian Christian Renaut presents volume two of his Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
Read our insightful interview with the respected Disney author about his new book! |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
Learn how two working musicians with no television experience ended up scoring the latest entry in the toy-inspired franchise. |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
Tonko House has another exciting project to share with the world, with this one a Netflix series inspired by Japanese folklore. |
