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Chicken Little
…along. From the start it’s clear that Chicken Little, our feathered protagonist, is despised among the inhabitants of animal town Oakey Oakes for creating a fuss with his original ruse,… |
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Watershipped Rabbits And Plagued Dogs: The Animated World Of Richard Adams
…as fairly rudimentary as they come, holds a charm that reveals a great level of work and attention and none of the cookie-cutter techniques that have marred features supposedly superior… |
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The Disney Board answers Roy Disney's Save Disney email
…years to come. Each of the company’s businesses is run by insightful, experienced and motivated executives who understand the balance between the creative process and the realities of running a… |
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The Ghost Busters: The Complete Live-Action Series
…late 1960s and 1970s when they ruled the airwaves along with their primary competitor Hanna-Barbera. Famous for their cartoon adaptations of major comic strip characters and superheroes, a move into… |
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Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition (Blu-ray/DVD)
…harm in running both at the same time. Additionally, the Blu-ray adds a similar but better device, allowing for concept art and other visuals to accompany Lasseter, Deja and Maltin’s… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
…does Beth floss, and what are decoys? Premiered on Friday, July 23, 2021 at 4pm PST Blade Runner: Black Lotus The Blade Runner franchise is coming to TV with Blade… |
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Toy Story 3
…the Toy Story universe. The rest of the film continues to run along re-running themes from the first two films: Woody is disassociated from the rest of the group, Jesse… |
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Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter & The Wolf (2006)
…century often depicted in previous film, stage and recorded versions of the tale, Templeton’s film returns the story firmly to Russia, albeit a fairly bleak, Soviet-era one, with rundown shacks,… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…two groundbreakers came out in the run-up to part three’s theatrical release, but thankfully they weren’t stop-gag editions that we all rushed out to purchase – hey, Toy Story in… |
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Over the Hedge: review, interviews, and production notes
…“Gladys is a stickler for rules and regulations. What makes her happy is having a tightly run ship. She gets very upset when things get messy, and what messes things… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition
…Pinto Colvig in the running due to his performances in many of the Disney shorts, not least as his regular guise in the character of Goofy, and Harry Stockwell (father… |
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Warner Archive: Atlantis: The Lost Continent / The Power
…help from his friend Walter Lantz, after moving from Hungary to run his own studio in Berlin, developing his patented stop-motion Puppetoon system. With the threat of war in Europe,… |
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Despicable Me 2
…tossed off the list immediately because Gru just can tell — that character is never seen in the movie again. The second is someone Gru actually knows of and we… |
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Ruby is your typical, teenage wallflower trying to get through high school without attracting too much attention. However, her reasons for wanting to avoid notice are anything but typical. (See… |
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Space: 1999: Season One
…television company for a contemporary detective action show, which became 1972’s The Protectors, successfully running for fifty-two half-hour episodes. With production on that series running down, Anderson revisited the pre-production… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…story threads and the choice of music, they all run into each other after a while, so I won’t needlessly address a complete run down of all the shows. The… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…credit in The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie and Jones offering a more pragmatic view in his Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie. With the death of Clampett, Tex Avery and… |
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Watchmen: Director’s Cut
…on the foundations established by The Dark Knight earlier that year. I am not a huge comics fan. Aside from a hard-core interest in American animation, my tastes run to… |
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Shrek 2
…daughter in her “ugly” state and wedded to a sometimes not-so-jolly green ogre. Despite trying his best, Shrek doesn’t get on too well with the King, leading to the ruler’s… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…featurette, Proud Of Simba’s Pride is some EPK-styled coverage of the production that runs a barely minimum seven minutes. It covers all the bases in rudimentary fashion, with soundbites from… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Limited 3D Edition
…Lego Animated Shorts: Captain Jack’s Brick Tales (running a Play All five minutes). Silly, but fun enough, it’s nice that they’re available here, though that they kind of basically run-through… |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…is actually labelled as a Rudolf Ising production, and neither character is named as we know them. The cat is called “Jasper” and has a distinctly more tabby appearance, while… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…the home video crowd before a given show began its television run. Into this fray stepped The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride, which can now really be seen as the… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…other voices in the film were somewhat easier to find. The Dwarfs’ roles had been given to popular radio names, with Pinto Colvig in the running due to his performances… |
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Kubo And The Two Strings
…television, with a long run of animated holiday specials, including Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town (and one feature, the very amusing Mad Monster Party),… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume Two
…are under the supervision of the same director, Charles Nichols, who here employs the remarkably detailed backgrounds and uses them ingeniously for running gags. A terrific short, this one seems… |
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Rupert coming home again!
Famed English adventurer Rupert The Bear is coming back home, with the issue of Paul McCartney’s Rupert And The Frog Song, the first time the little bear was animated on… |
