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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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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… |
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Despicable Me 3
…jealous of Dru’s wealth and apparent success (not to mention his hair), the brothers become fast friends when Gru learns that their father was secretly one of the greatest supervillains… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 1
…speakers Tom Ruegger (Senior Producer), Freakazoid’s voice Paul Rugg and writer John McCann, though unfortunately creator Bruce Timm, who from the sounds of things had left the project before it… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions
…kind of thing that’s been done to death. The rest of the film continues to run along re-running themes from the first two films: Woody is disassociated from the rest… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…a test run to see how to best approach running the convention through an ongoing pandemic. The back-to-basics approach provided organizers with insightful information while it also gave attendees a… |
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Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition
…notion that the medium had been all to happy to accept and become stuck in a rut with. That film had outperformed Disney’s offerings in several markets, the slightly more… |
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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…the movie that came out the following week: Chicken Run. Chicken Run opened one week after Titan A.E., and it killed it. It was a huge hit, whereas Titan A.E…. |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Dr Syn, Alias The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh
…Original Mono, Not MPAA Rated (some suggested aggression but nothing offensive, Canadian Home Video: G Rating), Retail: $32.99 Storyboard: In the King George III-ruled, heavy taxation Britain of 1736, The… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…he could given the limited budgets. Both these Behind The Tunes fill their running lengths to good effect. On Disc Three, the audio commentaries rule, with no less than nine… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 1
…Puss Gets The Btaken. There were other fellows in the early days, like Jay Ward and Bob Clampett, but Hanna-Barbera RULED television animation for years. And for every turkey they… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…wasn’t won by a Disney cartoon. It is very Silly Symphony like, as were many of the Hugh Harman-Rudy Ising shorts of the time, this one following the dream of… |
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The Muppets
…celebrities; by the end of the run, being lampooned on The Muppet Show meant you had really made it!). The show would have to be made in England, specifically at… |
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Home On The Range
…a running selection, running four-and-a-half minutes, with limited animation that fits in well the Three Pigs short, but looking much, much better. I have to say that, given the poor… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
…the vocal talent of Open Season, with a handy Play All option running the two together. Behind The Trees runs just over 15 minutes and is as good a packed… |
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The Minions have Gru’s back in yet another trailer
…villain, but then Gru outsmarts (and enrages) them, and he suddenly finds himself the mortal enemy of the apex of evil. With Gru on the run, the Minions attempt to… |
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Lady And The Tramp
…the seven-part documentary Lady’s Pedigree: The Making Of Lady And The Tramp, which runs over 52 minutes if selected as a Play All option. The piece runs though Walt’s early… |
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Rumored Rumblings: Pixar's Up chasing windmills?
As with everything in Rumored Rumblings, take the following with a grain of salt. Several different web sites around the net are buzzing that Pixar’s slightly mysterious 2009 release, Up,… |
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D23 Expo 2019 Exclusive
…He skipped out on notating what the possible monetary value would be. He would also pick out a few people in the audience and run them through trivia challenges before… |
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Brother Bear: 2-Movie Collection
…Studio’s last traditional animation (for a while at least), but the powers that be from Disney-on-high commanded that the film be shorn of six-months production time and rush-released to coincide… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume One
…with our favorite bunny, with a bunch of clips and new interviews digging under and revealing his character. The 5:37-minute clip features Ruth Clampett (daughter of Bob), Stan Freberg, Friz… |
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Flushed Away
…seedy rats of the underworld. They’re all after a valuable ruby, with which Rita wants to set herself up for life. When Roddy proves the ruby is a fake but… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…was really great to have that background.” At age 14, Cook created his very first animated film, The Saga of Benny Caru. In the short, the title character gets lost… |
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Home On The Range
…due to lower rates brought on by cattle rustler Alameda Slim. Turns out that Slim and Odel are one and the same, with Slim’s boys downing the land price by… |
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Team America: World Police – Unrated
…rudimentary, though it progresses as the clips play out and there are even some “real world” tests that are peculiarly amusing in themselves. All told, the tests run just over… |
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Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition
…stuck in a rut. That film had outperformed Disney’s offerings in several markets, the slightly more mature story and enormous success and appeal of Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram’s smash… |
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Peter & The Wolf: A Bird’s-Eye View (With A Balloon!)
…modern day Russia. Suzie and the co-writer Marianela Maldonado traveled to Russia, and took 14 hours of video footage, 3,000 stills, and got arrested by the FSB, and all sorts…. |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 2
…with a completed storyboard for a show called Ruff And Reddy. Fall of 1957 saw them getting commissioned for the first Ruff And Reddy trial segment, just months after being… |
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Director Roger Allers on The Little Matchgirl
…RA: For one thing, I think the buildings in Russia are incredibly beautiful. And certainly we associate snow with Russia. The winters there are incredibly hard. So, from a standpoint,… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
…of the time by going for an asymmetrical approach with André and a very rubbery cartoon look for Wally B, the buzzer. It’s actually impressive how much the models resemble… |
