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Henry Selick speaks about Moongirl and more
…Coraline, well, it could just as well tilt to all-stop-motion versus all-CG or a combo of both. We’re running tests and crunching numbers. Can you tell us a little about… |
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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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Henry Selick talks Moongirl and more
…both. We’re running tests and crunching numbers. AV:Can you tell us a little about the origin, the genesis, of Moongirl? HS: There had been a contest at the studio for… |
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James And The Giant Peach: Special Edition
…technically these are shown in HD, they’re all just the standard definition 16:9 frames dropped into an HD backdrop. Since the native HD format prides itself on being at least… |
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Father of the Pride images and review
…that Father of the Pride can turn into another long-running comedy series in the same vein as The Simpsons, since it does not have as broad of a focus and… |
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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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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,… |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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My Neighbors The Yamadas
…Yamadas are a typical Japanese family consisting of hard-working dad Takashi, his housekeeping-challenged wife Matsuko, disapproving son Noboru, noisy daughter Nonoko, and a blunt-speaking grandmother named Shige. In sitcom style,… |
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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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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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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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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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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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Cinderella: Platinum Edition
…running. Fortunately, the film that would be released in 1950 was a major hit. The Charles Perrault version of Cinderella was an obvious choice. The story of Cinderella had much… |
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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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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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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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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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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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Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?
…including dramatic live-action, musicals, animation (including, of course, Zemeckis’ Roger Rabbit pal Richard Williams’ version and Disney’s own Mickey-take) and even an all-around applauded Muppets movie. Now rubber face Carrey… |
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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… |
