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Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities
…Geisel/Seuss’ Whoville designs and wordplay to the limited animation style that UPA would make their own. Each running just over a minute, we’re offered four samples here. Animated Theatrical Commercials… |
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Cool World
…makes it even harder to follow. At the “full” 101-minute version, it obviously runs a little better, but still feels loose. However, there are a rumored 40 or so minutes… |
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Frank Walsh: Setting The World of Narnia
…as a ruin in an almost inaccessible part of New Zealand, building large Castle in depths of a Prague winter, to building a massive bridge over a raging river in… |
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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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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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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…“choice”, which of course is a fallacy — we all have to pay taxes, drive with insurance, not kill our neighbors, etc, so why not just follow “the rules” and… |
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Iron Man: Armored Adventures: Volume 2
…up and running. Setting a popular character in high school is also not something new, and had been done previously with X-Men: Evolution (which was a natural transition since there… |
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2010 Oscar nominations, Up up for Best Picture
…International), An Inosan Production, Israel • El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Sony Pictures Classics), A Haddock Films Production, Argentina • The Milk of Sorrow, A Wanda Visión/Oberon Cinematogrà/Vela Production, Peru… |
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Home
The Boov are a race of aliens on the run from their mortal enemy. They move from planet to planet trying to find the perfect hiding spot. Which obviously brings… |
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Cinderella
…source material (to the point where it was marketed in theaters as Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book), rather than as a repeat of what the studio had done before with… |
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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…a consummate thrill-ride, and just how does Tom Cruise and Chris McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible run keep getting better and more layered with each new outing!? I can’t wait for the… |
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The First Easter Rabbit: Deluxe Edition
…a hugely successful series of television perennials including Santa Clause Is Comin’ To Town, Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer and Jack Frost among many others. As those kinds of productions… |
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Disney Legend Floyd Norman writes (and talks) about his Animated Life
…once told me that he felt sorry for Walt Disney because the Old Maestro must have had the weight of the world on his shoulders running the company. This person… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…want to confuse him with the ruler of Haiti with that same name. A few of the song ideas evolved as well. Louis’s song originally was about how much he… |
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Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey
…two Rugrats movies) keeping things well paced. The overall story may be slighter and more child-friendly than the more densely packed plots of some animated films, and some of the… |
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The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
…air after seeing poor Toth’s work mangled for so many years. Aquaman maybe benefited the most, looking much more rugged with messy hair rather than the dated wavy hair he… |
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A Bug’s Life: Collector’s Edition
…found in Toy Story in terms of the texture of the characters where many characters had a rubbery-looking complexion (granted most of them were toys). While some characters, particularly the… |
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Superman – Doomsday
…come clean with her comes off as revolting. While still finding it morally fine to have her running around his pad in a towel, he does not wish to let… |
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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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Plot summary released for The Bob’s Burgers Movie; PG-13 rating confirmed
…The story begins when a ruptured water main creates an enormous sinkhole right in front of Bob’s Burgers, blocking the entrance indefinitely and ruining the Belchers’ plans for a successful… |
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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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Darkwing Duck: Volume 2
…on this set, which were episodes 28-37 by airdate order, the production numbers run 27, 23, 41, 46, 43, 55, 42, 49, 26, and 20. To make things more confusing,… |
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The Tick Vs. Season Two
…is especially unfortunate, since it means we never see how the face of the moon was altered (again) in the series’ longest-running continuity sight gag. However, there are still twelve… |
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Fred Grandinetti: Talking With Popeye’s No. 1 Fan
…show which was on WMUR, channel 9. He used to run Dick Tracy, Mr. Magoo, and Popeye. He ran all the World War Two ones, all the racial ones. AV:… |
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Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest For Pappy
…a running gag while never becoming an integral part of the story. The rest of the characters launch into a not-bad We’re Off To Rescue Pappy song that did not… |
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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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Star Wars – The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions
…that meant that the Warner-distributed Clone Wars was no longer a priority. Still, rumors persisted that further episodes had been worked on, and eventually it became known that a further… |
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Star Wars Rebels on Blu-Ray and DVD September 1st
…Bridger joins the clever but motley crew of the starship Ghost in their resistance against the Empire. As the series begins, Imperial forces have occupied a remote planet, ruling with… |
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Spirited Away
…up in a diner where they encounter heaps of food, which the parents quickly devour. Their gluttony literally turns them into pigs, and Chihiro frantically tries to run away but… |
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Madame Tutli-Putli vs. The Crazy Locomotive
…has its own rules. And we thought that a short film like that had more to deal with poetry than with romance or anything like that. A poem has structures,… |
