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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume One
…the manga by Mitsuteru Yokoyama told of how Japan was developing a super weapon in World War II, only to see their 28th attempt finally bring success— just in time… |
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Warner Archive: Freebie And The Bean
…in 1974, we had already seen tough cops throw out the rule book to dispense justice, with Steve McQueen as Bullitt and Gene Hackman in The French Connection, and tough… |
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Danger Mouse: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2
…the biggest rush I got out of viewing this set was seeing the old Thames Television ident. Man, that brings back memories! I remember that ident from The Tomorrow People… |
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All Things Must Pass: The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records
…or shop in even the hugest record store, the documentary’s approach itself doesn’t exhibit too many unique touches, running fairly linearly through the life of the company without too many… |
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Snow White: Marge Champion, a Model Princess!
…MC: They would show me the storyboards and I would get an idea of running through a forest because they hung a big clothes line across between two stands and… |
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Super Friends: The Lost Episodes
…created a syndicated package of the series’ old shows, and ABC chose to not complete with the older programs. They likely had also felt that the show had run its… |
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The Lego Batman Movie
…to admit it, that last rule is a rule because the Dark Knight has a fear of getting too close to people after losing his parents. But in The Lego… |
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All*Star Superman
…him now, and he runs with it in his own way. Morrison is gifted with an immense imagination, too; so the old ideas still manage to come out fresh, with… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!
…the song that isn’t just an end. Work in a shot trucking out of the house. Truck back and show animals shaking rugs out of the windows – little characters… |
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Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season Two
…initial season, the small band of rebels from the planet Lothal found their destiny, joining the larger group of rebel cells that was previously only known to them by rumours… |
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Pay TV being outflanked by web creators
…is accelerating and that traditional media industry gatekeepers run by executives such as Brian Roberts, Rupert Murdoch, Bob Iger, Sumner Redstone, Jeff Bewkes, etc. do not hold the same grip… |
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Happily N’Ever After
…films. But then another… and another… and at this point you almost think it is a joke, but no, there is one more. FIVE different production company logos run before… |
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Sin City: Blu-ray Disc (plus Recut, Extended & Unrated Edition)
…Rodriquez and Miller is now supplemented by Disney’s Cine-Explore feature, in which the original commentary runs, with new behind the scenes material and comparisons to Miller’s frames popping up on… |
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Moana
…Frog scoring at least 85% with the critics on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s a run reminiscent of Pixar or Marvel, not coincidentally both owned by Disney now. But can they keep… |
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DreamWorks Animation Preview
‘Bobbie’ on the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=651#post651 AN Forum}} posts a press release from the upcoming 21st {{link http://www.rustycon.com/ Rustycon}} convention (running January 16th through January 18th in Seattle) that announces that… |
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Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman
…latest plot, Batman tries to discover the identity of the mysterious Batwoman. The Sweatbox Review: Even as fans hear rumors of the newest (and hopefully better than the last) big… |
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Peanuts Double Feature: A Boy Named Charlie Brown & Snoopy, Come Home
…got something right. Of course this couldn’t be a Charlie Brown story if it ended there. That would ruin the whole character, and he still had another few decades of… |
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Television Academy hypocrisy allowing live action writers into animation categories?
…categories after foregoing a chance at the animation awards over the years. But now the Television Academy has them riled up again with their latest ruling allowing the live action… |
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Dragon Ball Z tops Japan’s box office
The latest entry in the long-running Anime series, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, topped the box office in Japan last weekend, with the movie earning about $7 million in… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete Second Season
…also kept to shorter stories. The plots were still serialized over multiple episodes, but did not necessarily run for as long. Fans could then jump into a new story more… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 1
…a comedy. For more serious stories, there was Filmation’s The Hardy Boys that same fall on ABC. This show, based on the long-running juvenile book series, also had what may… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?: The Complete First and Second Seasons
…never too tough to solve. In fact, in most episodes, there was only one suspect introduced! Occasionally, the writers (mostly Joe Ruby and Ken Spears) would throw out a red… |
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Lego Star Wars – The Freemaker Adventures: Complete Season One
…on DVD and Blu-ray. The Freemaker Adventures concerns two brothers and a sister, the Freemaker family. They run an outfit that, in addition to making repairs to ships, also salvages… |
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Perils of Penelope Pitstop: The Complete Series
…make one wonder why the villain didn’t just use a gun and get it over with. Of course, that would ruin the fun of seeing Penelope escape from a ridiculously… |
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Meet the flockers: the Animated-News Valiant review
…pigeons were really used during the war effort to deliver important coded messages, Valiant pretty much follows the standard rules of army-based comedy for the first half an hour or… |
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The Disney empire strikes back
…run by insightful, experienced and motivated executives who understand the balance between the creative process and the realities of running a business in the 21st century. The Disney management team… |
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Will the real Chicken Little please stand up?
…search of hundreds of U.S. chicken farms for the perfect “real-life” poultry star, chicken finalists were flown to Hollywood, where they strutted their stuff down a special chicken “runway” to… |
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Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween Movie (Limited Edition with Plush)
…children’s story, all woods have that air of mystery and danger lurking beneath the shadows. The overhanging branches and howling wind rustling through the leaves only add to the atmosphere…. |
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
…Ann Miller, Ricardo Montalban, Walter Pidgeon, The Ritz Brothers, Dean Stockwell, Rudy Vallee, Johnny Weissmuller and Henny Youngman among many more “hey I know that face” faces. The film was… |
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Dragons: Race To The Edge
…great deal of personality in their expressions. Just watching Tuffnut and Ruffnut engaging in their antics and looking at their faces as they react with mischievous glee and delight is… |
