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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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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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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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Dr. Seuss’s Holidays On The Loose!
…than a few Looney Tunes specials – when theatrical shorts stopped being made. Created towards the tail-end of DePatie-Freleng’s run of Seuss television shows (which included The Lorax in 1972),… |
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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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The Essential Daffy Duck
…than Bugs and Daffy bickering about how Daffy’s plan to run for President and sanction Rabbit Hunting 365 days of the year is doomed to fail. It is, ultimately, a… |
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Director Gore Verbinski wrangles up Rango!
…to rave reviews. Critics praised Verbinski’s direction as well as the stunning visual design and intelligent dialogue. By the end of its theatrical run, Rango had collected more than $245… |
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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 Halloween Tree
…of Saturday morning cartoon fare we may be more accustomed to. Perhaps because it is clear that holiday specials can become perennials that can be re-run each year, producers tend… |
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Real Steel
…decides to eventually, and inevitably, remove it, like say if their DreamWorks distribution deal runs out? Well, thankfully, it seems the creators of the Real Steel disc have thought of… |
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Artist Bob Camp recalls the ill-fated Space Jam 2
…Bugs shouldn’t have all the fun on the court and introduced a line of collector’s cups pairing Daffy, Taz, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner with NBA… |
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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 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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Hotel Transylvania composer Mark Mothersbaugh’s DEVO-tion to animation
…of Meatballs, Enlightened, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Pee Wee’s Playhouse, and the hugely successful Rugrats television, stage and film franchise. Mothersbaugh received the BMI Richard Kirk Award… |
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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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Wallace & Gromit’s World Of Invention
…films featuring the pair, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, before DreamWorks came a calling. Aardman turned out Chicken Run, but it wasn’t long before Wallace and Gromit made… |
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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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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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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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Secret Of The Wings
…winter, she is disappointed to find out that warm fairies are not allowed to cross over to the cold domain. This is a long-standing rule enforced by Lord Milori of… |
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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… |
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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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Turbo
…is always looking for a gimmick to bring more customers to his rundown strip mall. Together they set out to prove themselves and live their dreams — at the Indianapolis… |
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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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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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Kachow! The Cars 2: Agents On A Mission Tour
…the vehicles in the 2006 Cars: Road Trip promotional tour were gasoline-powered, each new vehicle is powered by four automotive-style batteries at 48 volts, able to run 30 minutes at… |
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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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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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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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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…social rules, and that Institute mentality. PI: It also shows in the overall design of the kingdom, people, and places alike. AS: We had an opportunity to reinforce this theme… |
