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Gulliver’s Travels
…I have a few 35mm trailers which are in terribly beaten up condition having been run at my local theater. But, you know, they’re 35mm and all that, so they… |
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Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic
…hired by the U.S. government to help as a deterrent against the Russians during the Cold War. The final main character is The Comedian/Edward Blake, a ruthless and cynical vigilante… |
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Top Cat: The Complete Series
…4 features the third and final commentary, this time on “The Late T.C.”. By this time, the contributors started to run out of steam, even being reduced to “bum-dee-dum” through… |
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Superman soars! Gulliver sinks! In a double dose of Fleischer fun!
During the 1930s there was but one outfit that could lay legitimate claim to rivaling Walt Disney in the animated cartoon stakes: the Paramount-sponsored Fleischer Studios, run by producer Max… |
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The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest: Season One, Volume One
…the Jonny Quest franchise, adding a rock man to the otherwise human group of characters for a thirteen episode run of 1986’s The New Adventures Of Jonny Quest, which ran… |
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FernGully: The Last Rainforest: Family Fun Edition
…contents are quite satisfying. The first featurette is From Paper To Tree, a new “Making of” piece running about half an hour. It begins with author Diana Young, but it… |
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Twelve films submitted for animated Oscar
…not yet had their required Los Angeles qualifying run. All the submitted films must be found to fulfill the rules and requirements for an animated feature before they will be… |
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Dinosaurs: The Complete Third And Fourth Seasons
…to syndication, without bothering to give them all proper network runs. It wasn’t that the ratings for Dinosaurs were all that bad, it was just a pretty expensive program to… |
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The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh: The Friendship Edition
…tale. Winnie The Pooh runs out of honey at his home, and using an unusual amount of ingenuity, he borrows a balloon from Christopher Robin. He then rolls himself in… |
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Ariel’s Song: Tony Pulham, a fortunate art director under the sea!
…of Ariel’s Beginning, which has Ariel finding an underground club, running away etc. I didn’t really refer to the second film or the TV series. Click on picture to enlarge… |
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$6.2 million weekend intake for Monsters oversees
Variety reports that Monsters Vs Aliens has grossed $6.2 million over the weekend oversees from 644 locations, with the majority of the profits coming in from Russia. The decision to… |
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The Sky Crawlers DVD in May
DVDActive reports that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced DVD and Blu-ray releases of Mamoru Oshii’s The Sky Crawlers for the 26th May. The only extra material on the DVD… |
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Popeye 75th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…this one, Olive has her black-dot eyes, but Popeye still can’t decide which eye to squint. The stories run from such very pedestrian set-ups as a car wash or picnic,… |
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The Legend Of Prince Valiant: Complete Series, Vol. Two
…contrast, when you watch Valiant and Rowanne running in this show, they look leaden. Still, it is mean to overly criticize a show that tries so very hard and is… |
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Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo
…run, Teen Titans won over many of the skeptics who were initially put off by the show’s anime-inspired style and its targeting of a lower-aged demographic. Once the show grew… |
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Please welcome Glago's Guest
…later this year with Disney’s animated comedy-fantasy Bolt), Glago’s Guest follows the intriguing and thought-provoking story of a lonely Russian soldier stationed in a remote Siberian outpost. When the soldier’s… |
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Ambitious plans for Portland-based animation studio Laika
…on three more projects to be pitched in future months: The Wall and the Wing, adapted by Lost co-creator Jeffrey Lieber from the novel by Laura Ruby. Story is about… |
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Grave Of The Fireflies: Collector’s Series
…but also discusses other details about the film restoration. An Art Gallery follows, once again video-based, and running a couple of minutes (it is also in the ROM features). I… |
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The Smurfs coming to the big screen
…known in the United States for the long-running Hanna-Barbera cartoon, the Smurfs were created in 1958 by Belgian cartoonist Pierre Culliford, known throughout the world as Peyo. The Smurfs, originally… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 3
…Cartoon Network, which started broadcasting in 1992, and both Bill and Joe directed some new shorts. A quick (and incomplete) rundown of the 1990’s shows demonstrates the shift from network… |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey Saves Santa
…done by DQ Entertainment, Limited, in India.) While there is little allowance for squash and stretch, there is a fair bit of “rubber hosing” built into the models. The computer… |
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The Complete Uncensored Private Snafu
…are making a contribution too. There’s quite a funny “nuts” gag in this one that would not be in any Looney Tunes cartoon. Rumors – Well, rumors are dangerous. Booby… |
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
…television, not to mention the nature of organized fandom. When Star Trek ended its three-year run in 1969, it left behind a legacy of thought-provoking, groundbreaking futuristic drama. As we… |
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Enrico Casarosa’s The Venice Chronicles
…let them run over it. I just wouldn’t feel like a good person, husband or dad. So, I definitely try to strike a good balance in my life between family… |
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A Scanner Darkly
…America’s most respected and adapted sci-fi authors. Having seen good Dick movies that were nonetheless weak adaptations (Blade Runner, Minority Report) and cheesy Dick movies that were also weak adaptations… |
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X-Men animated DVD volumes details released
…the two-disc sets will present the episodes in chronological order, with none of the programs missing in the first run of 32 shows. For a first look at the cover… |
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Monsters Vs. Aliens vs. Zeta vs. Captain Toontastic?
…to the classic 1960s man on the run series The Fugitive, here rebooted as a robot on the run and set in the Batman Begins universe (its main character being… |
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The Muppet Show: Season Two
…Elton John, Steve Martin, Madeline Khan, Rudolf Nureyev, Bernadette Peters, Rich Little, Dom Deluise… good grief!! That line-up just cannot be beat. And it all pays off, too. This season… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: Season One, Vol. 3 – Hello Mummy
…that the castle’s caretaker has run away after being chased by ghosts. When they reach the castle gates, they are immediately confronted by a vampire, but they decide to investigate… |
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Pete’s Dragon: High-Flying Edition
…be the least ambitious of the bunch, having only a single animated character, with most of the film’s runtime being devoted solely to live action. Still, the delightful character actors… |
