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Pinchcliffe races home: Caprino Studios Collection on DVD!
…films are explored and there are film clips aplenty from both films featured in the set and additional Caprino material. Again what strikes is the intricate detail put into the… |
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Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition
…common mistake that more than several reviewers made when covering the film in its theatrical release. An animated film as complex as one like this easily takes three to four… |
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Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton
…works, it works great. I could probably say that this film was the last Disney animated film to be so treated. Most of the films since then have been pretty… |
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2018 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…Lucasfilm launched Star Wars: The Clone Wars, an animated series of adventures taking place between the prequel films Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Despite a rocky… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…half of the film basically runs through their lives as they meet for the first time at Stanford Art Department in 1931, becoming fast friends while learning art in Los… |
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Howl’s Moving Castle
…Still, most of the film is so far beyond the typical animated film, in terms of creating a compelling story full of interesting characters and wonderful visuals, that I can… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…this year’s crop of films to be fairly dismal. The one bright spot was Missing Link [below right], easily my favorite animated film of the year — a delightful surprise… |
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Bill Plympton returns!
…Festival has been entered for a 2011 Academy Award. The film has garnered an unprecedented selection of Film Festival Awards and honors including: • Special Distinction, Feature Film, Annecy Animation… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…was something to never materialize, the eventual disc simply providing a new 1.75:1 transfer (the film was created in the 1.37:1 open matte process, it was rumored a second disc… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…along with John Lasseter, John Musker and Brad Bird. He simultaneously studied experimental animation with Jules Engel and made two award-winning student films: Phases, a runner-up in the Student Academy… |
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Saving Mr Banks
…really show enough of the film’s sublime subplot to make the point that Saving Mr Banks‘ title really alludes to. In all this is a decent film that, while possibly… |
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Insider Access To Inside Out
…for a newspaper. We’re film buddies, and both capable to appreciating all types of films. I wasn’t sure if I was going to seek out this special showing of Inside… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…rest of it. AV: Again, a different approach was that the songwriters on this film were numerous, unusual for a Disney film. How did that happen? GS: I think it’s… |
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Lilo And Stitch: 2-Movie Collection
…or two promotional items, a routine that continued through Chicken Little and the rest of the 2000s features. Rumor of two-disc editions for the few of the films that had… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…good concept in an opulent and sometimes overwhelming visual feast and indulgent length. That film seemed to open up the doors to new filmmakers taking their inspiration from Barrie’s original:… |
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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…novel down fairly well, these two films were technically not even anywhere near the noble disaster of Bakshi’s film, and the integrating of too much “business” (and several unnecessary songs)… |
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FernGully: The Last Rainforest: Family Fun Edition
…new appreciation for the film. The sincerity of the filmmakers and the unique production history earn FernGully a special place in the annals of animated films. Diana Young was the… |
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Watchmen: Director’s Cut
…science-fiction) filmmaking, it can take a while for such a film to find an appreciative audience, and on home video, Watchmen is sure to find just that. At last year’s… |
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D23 Expo 2011: Day 2 – Frankenweenie flies Planes with Muppets
…DisneyToon Studios’ Planes, Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph, Disney•Pixar’s Brave, Disney•Pixar’s Monsters University, an untitled Pixar film from Director Bob Peterson, an untitled Pixar film from Director Pete Docter, John Carter, Tim… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Dr Syn, Alias The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh
…of what could easily become camp, but allowing a feel of flamboyant period filmmaking to run free. The Scarecrow himself, based on an apparent real life Vicar who was supposed… |
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Michael Giacchino cooks up tasty tunes for Ratatouille!
…right for the film, and the song really comes out of the main theme of the film. That theme was written very early on. It was the first thing I… |
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Only Yesterday
…the film here, despite handling most of the other early Ghibli films on home video. It would seem that the answer to that riddle lies in the film’s genre and… |
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The Lion King 1½
…endeavour, from the outset, appears to be little more than the original film run through with “optional visual commentary”, like Men In Black’s on-screen DVD diagram device, added to the… |
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Cinderella: Diamond Edition
…compilation films alone, and the gradual move back to features was intentional. The Studio had been coming up with ideas for a new full-length film since the early 1940s but… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2
…to Dug in this way in the film wouldn’t have given us the surprise Carl and Russell get when they discover the talking dog, but since this short ends with… |
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Thunderbirds International Rescue Edition Giftset
…rescue heroes star in two feature films. In the first film, International Rescue is asked to protect a rocket ship set to go to Mars. In the next film, the… |
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Monsters, Inc.: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…tried to rush and pack too many releases together, and especially that Monsters, Inc. itself tanked, because if ever there was a film almost “pre-designed” to get an extra screen… |
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Winnie The Pooh
…them as the long ten minute credit scroll reveals. Then there’s also the film’s unexpectedly short running time to consider which, at just 53 minutes of actual animation excluding the… |
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Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
…theme that intros the film. The editing, like the music, is too staccato, with not nearly enough rhythm in things, throwing the pacing of the overall film into a “start-stop”… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…somewhat un-rounded misses the point…Pan was developed as a pantomime-styled stage play – and an interactive one at that – and the film retains this feel. Also, being a film… |
