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The Secret Of The Magic Gourd
…of the later 1950s films and television anthology specials) – films that were specifically aimed at filmgoers in the UK or that Walt could feature on his US television series… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…Adventure turned the tide a little, being rudimentary and ultimately inconsequential feature, but with a brisk light touch that recalled the tone of the older films, with Patch at least… |
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Cars: Ultimate Gift Pack
…itself up strongly enough to abide by its own rules. It’s the same problem that Chris Wedge’s Robots had to some degree, though that film never placed a time frame… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…Best Of BraveStarr Filmation/BCI/Eclipse (July 3, 2007), 2 discs, 230 mins plus supplements, $25 Without question, BCI have been doing an amazing job with their Filmation titles, reaching far into… |
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The Boxtrolls
…world, however deep the similarities may run, and as The Boxtrolls played out it was refreshing to also spot clear influences from classic Disney, Aardman’s films, Fantastic Mr Fox (perhaps… |
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Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death
…Wallace & Gromit being two characters that mean a great deal personally to Nick Park. It was a shorter than we have become accustomed to film, running under 20 minutes,… |
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Puss In Boots: composer Henry Jackman’s Spanish Hour
…and Maurice Ravel, another brilliant example of Henry’s ability to approach such a wide range of film genres with a fresh point of view… Animated Views: Listening to your score… |
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The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney
…at the United Film Ad Service Company, which created rudimentary commercials for theatrical showing. Walt had already been bitten by the movie bug, producing several home-made live-action shorts featuring inventive… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Platinum Edition
…to Film Comparison recreates some of the film’s memorable scenes and allows you to use the angle feature on the DVD remote to switch between the original pencil sketches and… |
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Raya And The Last Dragon
…runtimes. So I decided to only watch the first teaser trailer that comes out for any film. As someone who goes to the theatre a lot (pre-pandemic, of course) and… |
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
…reflect their original (pre-sequelized) first films. However bad a second film in a trilogy can get it wrong in trying to either bring us more of the same or going… |
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Happily N’Ever After: Widescreen Edition
…good story crew and time to finesse is an imperative part of any animated film; certainly something that Williams’ partners on the Shrek films at DreamWorks understand. I wonder what… |
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Real Steel
…a franchise then the film only has its own ending to blame for the lack of success that could have led to word of mouth success, but the film doesn’t… |
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The Animatrix
…humanoid robots that want to resemble humans out of respect, to very ruthless, inhuman robots by the end. Kid’s Story, is one of the most visually creative films, and all… |
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Toy Story 3: Pixar writer Michael Arndt tells the story behind the story
…encouraged to let our imaginations run wild, and (I hope) the film reflects that. RI: The creative process for an animated film is quite different from a live-action one. Did… |
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A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story Of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman
…Pythonesque fashion and proclaiming the movie to be “the best film I have been in since I died – Graham Chapman”, the full subtitle of the film and the participation… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Composer J.A.C. Redford!
…So, I’ve been writing for television and film since 1976. I started out doing educational films and documentaries in Utah and then, after a few years, I moved here to… |
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Tarzan II
…the complex adult in the original film), this latest addition merely expands on a concept that is usually glossed over in the original films of this kind for a reason…. |
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The Emperor’s New Groove: 2-Movie Collection
…Audio, Rated PG, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: The vain, powerful and comically flippant ruler of an Incan empire learns a few rules about life and friendship, in an epic and very… |
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Harry Gregson-Williams: Scoring the Return to Narnia!
…23 for instance, the last Joel Schumacher film that I did. It’s kind of a scary film, almost a horror film and in this genre, it’s necessary to keep the… |
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Sing
…animated pictures during the year – we were treated to a new animated film from the major commercial studios each month, from Illumination’s own The Secret Life Of Pets in… |
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The Road To Broadway And Beyond: Disney’s Aladdin – A Whole New World
…infamous “Black Friday” test screening of the animated film in which Jeffrey Katzenberg effectively killed off many of the characters and songs and turning the film into “Aladdin meets Indiana… |
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Shrek the Musical World Premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre
…DreamWorks. Mendes, a big fan of the first Shrek film, suggested the idea of creating a musical to DreamWorks’ Jeffrey Katzenberg around the time the second film was in production…. |
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NBFF Volcom Call for Teen Film Entries Press Release
…IMMEDIATE RELEASE: TEEN FILMMAKERS WANTED! 2008 NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES CALL FOR TEEN FILM ENTRIES Volcom Embraces Creativity of Young Filmmakers with Sponsorship of Youth Film Event Newport Beach,… |
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Ratatouille
…Disney’s Beauty and the Beast can I ever remember watching an animated film from a major American studio and feeling that way. And things ended well for that historic film!… |
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Up’s Pete Docter and Michael Giacchino to intro the Academy’s Oscar Concert celebration of film music
…director Pete Docter, who will explore the challenges and rewards of film scoring, utilizing music from the Oscar-winning film Up. Organized into vignettes, the program explores the emotions and excitement… |
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Apple lands animated short film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Apple Original Films announced that the animated short film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, based on the internationally best-selling book of the same name by celebrated… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…plus supplements, $35 Rumors of Robert Zemeckis’ motion-capture remake be gone – here’s the original looking like never before! After MGM’s non-16:9, degraded film print DVD from several years ago,… |
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A look at Oscar's Animated Short Films
…about life”. \\Harvie Krumpet\\ is narrated by Geoffrey Rush. The film was directed by the young celebrated Australian filmmaker Adam Elliot, best known for his short film trilogy \\Uncle\\, \\Cousin\\,… |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…1996 special effects film Dragonheart), beloved Jepoardy host Alex Trebek, Shrek 2 co-director Kelly Asbury, Chadwick Boseman, Kobe Bryant, and Scooby-Doo! creators Ken Spears and Joe Ruby — both departing… |
