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Snow White week begins at AN&V!
…copy of the 3-disc BD/DVD combo pack as well as nothing less than a signed photo of Snow White’s live-action model Marge Champion herself, with some lucky runners up also… |
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Dopey speaks: Snow White‘s characters and legacy!
…Research Library’s Lella Smith for a roundtable discussion on the development of the Dwarf characters, from their initial appearances to the picking of their eventual names. If you haven’t rushed… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…the first time Robert recalled experiencing the loss of life. He recalled Valentine’s Day, at the age of four, losing his great-grandmother in a tragic hit and run. The loss… |
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11 Animated Movies Eligible for Oscar
…it wanted to train its people in this genre of animation. Clifford’s Really Big Movie John Ritter voices Clifford, the Big Red Dog who runs away to join a carnival… |
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The Animated Games of E3
…Digimon Rumble Arena 2 – BANDAI – GC/XBOX Choose among 40 different Digimon in this fighter, along with three friends for multiplayer mayhem. Disney’s Aladdin – CAPCOM – GBA A… |
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Tropic Thunder: 2-Disc Unrated Director’s Cut
…as the inadequate know-all, lost more than he knows, Black as the “jelly-bean”-addicted clown and Downey Jr as a Russell Crowe-like thesp who doesn’t break character until the DVD commentary… |
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Popeye (live-action movie)
…E. C. Segar, who created the characters for his Thimble Theater comic strip way back in 1929. The strip had run ten years earlier, but when Popeye appeared he was… |
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Animated Bauer Power!
…that turned out! Produced by Flash animation content studio Icebox, the only drawback to all this is the length, with webisodes only running just over a minute in new content…. |
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Pirates continues to plunder box-office booty!
…has done so faster than any other title released internationally. It’s tracking better than last year’s sequel Dead Man’s Chest which puts the rumors of a fourth (fifth, sixth?) film… |
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Giveaway crazy! Plus the old American Dog/Bolt switcheroo!
…been getting from the Mouse House. With John Lasseter rumored to be no big fan of Sanders, he didn’t waste much time in removing this original director from his, excuse… |
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WDFA becomes WDAS. Not the same, is it?
…but done with a black marker effect that looks rushed, lazy in spots and messy in others. Points of irritation: the weak right swish on the W (which looks worse… |
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Annie Award nominations announced
…– The IncrediblesWill Finn & John Sanford – Home on the RangeStephen Hillenburg – The SpongeBob SquarePants MovieMamoru Oshi – Ghost in the Shell 2 Directing in an Animated Television… |
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The new Despicable Me 3 trailer is here
…next summer. The team who brought you Despicable Me and the biggest animated hits of 2013 and 2015, Despicable Me 2 and Minions, returns to continue the adventures of Gru,… |
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Pete’s Dragon
Walt Disney Studios (August 12 2016), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (November 29 2016), Blu-ray plus DVD, 103 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition widescreen 2.40:1, DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, Rated, Retail:… |
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The BFG
…here, making the stagey sets feel all the more less real. Here we come across an orphanage and meet young Sophie (Ruby Barnhill, slightly too old and not quite cute… |
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Weekend wrap-up…
…the third spot over bigger hits Bee Movie and The Simpsons Movie. Any argument that Shrek The Third should have been in the running hasn’t been raised by anybody… Ratatouille… |
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The New Adventures Of Superman: DC Classics
…“staff”, with several people filling in as artists and animators “working” on the Journey Back To Oz movie even though many had never held a paint brush! The ruse, however,… |
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Recommended books; Potter beats Bond; plus that Tron sequel!
…the original’s director Steven Lisberger (also of the frustratingly unavailable but brilliantly entertaining Animalympics feature), Joseph Kosinski (also linked to the Logan’s Run remake at Warners) will pick up the… |
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Possible new director for \\The Fantastic Four\\
{{link http://vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=3631a5a1&atype=news&id=10076 VFXWorld}} reports that Sean Astin (Samwise Gamgee in \\The Lord of the Rings\\) has mentioned in an interview that he is in the running to direct the film… |
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Ghosts, ghouls and goblins? Either our reviewers or it must be Halloween!
While we don’t have much new to post this All Hallow’s Eve, howsabout a run down of some of our more ghoulish titles’ reviews? I crept down into the old… |
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Trolls
…minute each. Fortunately, Trolls has at least four showstopping musical numbers spread throughout its running time of an hour and a half, climaxing with a rousing grand finale featuring a… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Sixth Season
…seasons, I guess I’m in until the end! By then, the Adventure Time crew will have produced enough episodes to run continuously for nearly three days. The mind fairly boggles…. |
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Kristen Bell implies that Frozen 2 might be a long way off
…in for a long wait. “They are not rushing the script,” Bell said. They have the luxury to not rush because everyone is going to be excited whether it comes… |
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Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!
…the main players in the game set up and running, it’s down to co-writer (with British comedy legend Jack Davies) and director Annakin to unleash any and all situations on… |
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X-Men ’92 Vol. 0: Warzones!
…animated series was reborn in the from of a new comic book series titled X-Men ’92. Vol. 0: Warzones! collects the initial eight issue run of the series. For several… |
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Dragonball Z Meets Superman
Dark Horizons reveals the newest rumor concerning a live-action, movie version of the animated series, Dragonball Z: Smallville‘s Tom Welling is being rumoured to play “Goku.”… |
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Prep & Landing
…my childhood as Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and A Charlie Brown Christmas. Today, studios continue in their attempt to create the world’s next Christmas classic,… |
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Justice League: The Complete Series
…five year run on the Cartoon Network across 14 discs. The Sweatbox Review: The cartoons from the DC animated universe have become something of a cartoon staple for Warner Bros…. |
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Additions old and new; reviews and a new Media section!
…it sound fun! Next up, Rodney’s been running the Justice League: The Complete Series marathon through all 91 episodes of the show’s five year run of 15 DVDs. The most… |
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Merry Madagascar
…feature quality regularly throughout. Highpoints, as always, are those darned Penguins, this time engaging in a hilarious battle with Santa’s Russian accented reindeer who, in the special’s major laugh out… |
