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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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When You Wish Upon A Star: The Musical Making of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio
…visuals and the music. And Pinocchio is far beyond being an exception to the rule. It is even more a precursor. As well as this narrative complexity, the music is… |
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The success story of Disney On Ice
…in New York. Consider Russia. Disney, like many companies, sees the potential for lavish growth in the Russian market, where its presence is limited. The problem is that Disney’s typical… |
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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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More Peter & The Wolf, Madagascar 2 – and a quick catch-up!
…run up to the Academy Awards, if you wanted to check out what took away the prize last year, this disc does it all and more! We’re also able to… |
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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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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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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume Two
…all of the same run, with little continuity except for within sets of three or four episodes at a time that feature the same villain or plot points. One shouldn’t… |
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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection
…turning you off of seeing them; and two, to go into greater detail in order to go beyond the simple descriptions could ruin the surprises that you have waiting for… |
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Frankenweenie
…visual poke at Disney’s, via a ruined fairytale castle). The rest of the locations, even the digitally extended ones, just don’t seem that inspired, despite the no doubt impressive amount… |
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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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The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume Two
…Harkening back to a sci-fi classic, Batman & Robin and Wonder Woman face an attack of The Fifty Foot Woman. Zan and Jayna help a cross-country runner who runs into… |
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Get ready for The Snow Queen, but not Disney’s version
…the film. Western fans might recognize the Russian distributor and co-producer Timur Bekmambetov, with credits to his name as 9 and Kikoriki Team Invincible. He released the film in Russia… |
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Bambi Diamond Edition: an interview with Donnie Dunagan, the original “Young Prince of the Forest”
…sensed that and I was proud to know that I helped change that. Walter Brennan treated me like a grandson. Ruby Keller was a gentle queen. I think she just… |
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Directors Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco introduce The Croods
…you joked that John Cleese is terrified of technology. KDM: Exactly! He’s completely convinced that technology is going to ruin the world – that it’s already ruined society to the… |
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James And The Giant Peach: Special Edition
…he went on to other Brit-tinged projects as Chicken Run. Here his words mesh perfectly with the voice cast (also featuring Susan Sarandon, Jane Leeves, and David Thewlis, now best… |
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Bolt: Joe Moshier – one bold, Bolt designer!
…a rough inbetweener at Disney for maybe two weeks or so. At the time, Tony Fucile and James Baxter were designing all the characters. They were kind of running out… |
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Superman Unbound
…stories found in DC comic books over the past several years. Many fans have loved his extended runs on titles such as JSA, Flash and Green Lantern. This is largely… |
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Michael Jackson’s This Is It
…run for the This Is It concerts. The answer is that this is a very slick package, as one might expect given the Michael Jackson organisation’s connection, though not one… |
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Last remaining of the Nine Old Men, legendary animator Ollie Johnston dies at 95
…“like they were one person”, as Glen Keane put it. Indeed, in the same year’s Mickey Mouse short Runaway Brain, one character is named Dr Frankenollie in tribute to the… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…that had seen a theatrical feature emerge as something of a series capper for the original run, which ended in the same year, 1966. A year later, Hanna-Barbera teamed again… |
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Cartoon Network announces 2008 programming
…Ahsoka. Sinister villains—led by Palpatine, Count Dooku and General Grievous—are poised to rule the galaxy. Stakes are high, and the fate of the Star Wars universe rests in the hands… |
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Welcome The Rotoscopers!
…podcast, which usually runs about ninety minutes, consists of a news roundup, a nerdy mini-segment (that can cover anything from animation principles to industry history), and a main discussion where… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part One
…is exactly the Batman of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. The title of the show is itself a reference to a long-running Batman team-up comic book which concluded its run… |
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Nana’s back! Elisa Gabrielli on Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…Actually, both my Grandmothers…the Russian one, Lilly, who was tough and smart, and my Hungarian Granny, Elsa – whom I adored – who was all of that and had a… |
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The Care Bears Movie
…running to find the others to tell them about two children who are lonely. Friend Bear and Secret Bear are then sent down to Earth on the Cloud Mobile, which… |
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G.I. Joe: The Movie – Special Edition
…is an ancient civilization who used to rule the Earth until the last Ice Age when they retreated high into the Himalayas. They are masters of bio-organic technology and are… |
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Stronger Than Spinach
…Fleischer Studio, when their distributor, Paramount, decided to muscle the Fleischers out and simply run a cartoon studio themselves. Many of the same folks stayed on to direct, draw, and… |
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The Transformers: Season Two, Volume One (25th Anniversary Edition)
…in Attack of the Autobots (where Decepticons basically take over several Autobot members), Auto Beserk (where Red Alert malfunctions and teams up with Starscream), and in The Autobot Run (when… |
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ParaNorman
…the movie with Universal’s excellent HD supplements. Heading the list is a nine-minute series of Preliminary Animatic Sequences with optional commentary from directors Butler and Fell, essentially running through three… |
