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Bill Plympton returns!
…York on Wednesday, October 6th. Screenings of “Idiots and Angels” (run time 78 mins.) will be preceded by Plympton’s new, multi-award winning animated short film: “The Cow Who Wanted to… |
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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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Bambi II: Special Edition
…To Never-Land was a delightful surprise in theaters after a poor run of sub-TV styled “features” such as Pocahontas II, Hunchback II and the downright frankly awful Cinderella II (notice… |
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Yogi Bear’s All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper
…a little girl who has run away from her rich but neglectful father. The Sweatbox Review: Sometimes Christmas specials are just stories with your favorite characters doing things at Christmas… |
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SWAT Kats – The Radical Squadron: The Complete Series
…Enforcers jet, they had Dark Kat targeted, but their superior officer Commander Feral demanded that they let him fly in and save the day. Feral ended up ruining everything, as… |
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Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter
…dropped. If the movie was to come in at a reasonable run time at all, then that extraneous bit of writer’s conceit would certainly have to go. …Unless it didn’t… |
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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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The Smurfs, Vol. 1: True Blue Friends
…run. Johan is a young squire who travels the countryside looking for adventures with his sidekick Pewitt, a dwarf. In The Haunted Castle, Brainy, Papa Smurf, and Smurfette are in… |
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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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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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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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2010 Annie Award nominations announced
…Sylvain Chomet The Illusionist – Django Films Pierre Coffin Despicable Me – Illumination Entertainment Mamoru Hosoda Summer Wars – Madhouse/Funimation Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois How To Train Your Dragon –… |
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Rockin’ With Judy Jetson
…sufficiently impressed to agree to perform the song later at his concert. However, after receiving the lyrics from Judy, he has a run-in with two henchmen of Felonia Funk, and… |
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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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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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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 Garfield Movie
…against Garfield’s long lost father. She forces them to run a heist at a dairy farm and steal a huge amount of milk in return for their freedom. Yes, the… |
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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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Valley Of The Dinosaurs: The Complete Series
…competing with one of their own shows, with Devlin being run at the same time on ABC. Meanwhile, H-B’s prehistoric live action show Korg, 70,000 BC failed to click with… |
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Hanna-Barbera, The Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age To Meddling Kids
…Fred Flintstone & Barney Rubble In Songs From Mary Poppins. When I saw the cover for that one, it truly astounded me. Not only did it confound me by appearing… |
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Jem’s Popularity is Truly Outrageous
…rumor has circulated for a few years about a Jem movie (Hasbro trying to cash in on their older properties), but legal issues are still a problem. Rumors are still… |
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Annie nominations for 2011 films announced
…— FX Productions Green Lantern: The Animated Series — Warner Bros. Animation Hoops & YoYo Ruin Christmas — Hallmark MAD — Warner Bros. Animation Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole Season 2 —… |
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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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Mad: Season One, Part Two
…had given the comics industry a controversial name in the 1950s, the satirical Mad Magazine offered a humorous counterpoint to those publications and over it’s continuing, almost 60-year run, has… |
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The Tigger Movie: Bounce-a-rrrific Special Edition
…this selected series of ten “shorts” are potted, re-voiced, re-scored and slightly rushed oddities, running around two and a half minutes each. Winnie The Pooh’s narrator John Cleese now narrates,… |
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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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Disney documentary DVD exclusive offer!
…STREETDATE: November 30, 2010 Rated: PG Run Time: Approx. 86 minutes Video: Widescreen (1.78.1) Audio Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound DVD Subtitles: English SRP: 1-Disc DVD $29.99 THE BOYS: THE… |
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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 Secret Of Kells: Special Edition
…notices. The only problem with The Secret Of Kells was that, with a somewhat limited release schedule, audiences couldn’t immediately rush out and see what the fuss was about without… |
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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… |
