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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…they’ve created here that could well stretch to one further film – with Po’s eventual situation resolved by the film’s end there’s perhaps room for the Dragon Master to join… |
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The Smurfs 2
…Most of the film is in decent taste. Director Raja Gosnell—– (also known for the Scooby-Doo live action features and Beverly Hills Chihuahua) returns for this film, showing his usual… |
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Bedknobs And Broomsticks: Enchanted Musical Edition
…in time for the film’s 25th Anniversary LaserDisc release. This added 22 minutes to the film, giving it an impressive runtime of 139 minutes. Since then, no other version has… |
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Grave Of The Fireflies: Collector’s Series
…Film Festival— in the categories of Best Animated Feature Film, and Rights Of The Child. It received similar treatment in Moscow. Still, nothing can really prepare you for the impact… |
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The Secret Of Kells: Special Edition
…travelling for miles into the nearest town showing the film. That issue is naturally cleared up with the release of one of the film on Blu-ray and DVD, although I… |
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April And The Extraordinary World
…the look for the film, and traces the film’s origins back to his previous comics work on The Arctic Marauder and Adele Blanc-Sec. The other filmmakers also chip in, further… |
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A Christmas Carol
…serviced by a strong story, lean and mean so that the film gets right to the point without any artificial padding. A theme in the film is dual identities, and… |
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Exodus Film Group takes on Hero of Color City and Amarillo Armadillo
…film fund. To read further about each of Exodus Film Group’s animated projects, click “More” to see the studio’s press release. Exodus Gets Colorful With Two New CG-Animated Films VENICE,… |
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Disneynature: Oceans / The Crimson Wing: Mystery Of The Flamingos
…of comments from the filmmakers, crew and experts not particularly connected to the film but clearly knowledgeable and authoritative on their subjects. Very welcome, this runs the length of the… |
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From Up On Poppy Hill
…Goro failed to meet expectation when he directed his first Studio Ghibli film, Tales From Earthsea, in 2006. Many critics were remarkably unkind in their estimation of the film’s value,… |
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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…of audience assurance by way of the films they were making. Sure, these films weren’t exactly groundbreaking, and there are only so many teenage Kurt Russell comedies one can take,… |
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The Seventh Dwarf
…to defeat a villain voiced by James Earl Jones. Even though the film was a financial disaster, Filmation decided to try the same strategy again regardless, starting work on a… |
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The Black Cauldron: Gold Classic Collection
…some simply amazing light and shadow work, the film was basically a mess! Katzenberg resorted to doing what no other studio executive had ever done with an animated film. He… |
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Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition
…the Pixar Production Tour, a 20-minute look into the filmmaking process. This runs as one piece, but is actually made up of the introductory clips for the various sub-sections on… |
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Cinderella: Platinum Edition
…Melody Time, to get films out as quickly as possible. The post-war films were pleasant enough, including such other delights as the more feature-like Song Of The South and The… |
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The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition
…not just more run-of-the-mill toon movies. Warners’ rather knee-jerk response was to put The Quest For Camelot into production. During the making of a film, ideas and concepts obviously come… |
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My Neighbors The Yamadas
…out. I am aware that this film has its admirers. A sticker on the DVD’s slipcover has a quote from Brad Bird praising the film, and goodness knows that I… |
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D23 Expo 2024 Exclusive
…Flowers, Alice in Wonderland) “S-U-G-A-R, jump into your racing car, Say Sugar Rush! Sugar Rush!” (The Sugar Rush Racers, Wreck-It Ralph) Imagineer Ali Rubinstein previewed the Avatar Experience coming to… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Platinum Edition
…film still feels pretty sharp looking today. It was, of course, an instant hit on release, preserving the animation unit and allowing work to continue safely on films up until… |
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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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Elstree 1976
The Works/Verax/British Film Company/Canal Cat Films (May 6 2016), Filmrise (June 28 2016), single DVD, 101 mins, 16:9 standard definition, Dolby Digital, Not Rated, Retail: $19.95 Storyboard: Those behind the… |
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The One That Started It All… The Making Of Snow White
…release, Snow White became the first film to be totally digitally restored. This meant taking each frame of the film into the digital realm, and using a paintbox device to… |
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Finding Nemo: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
…it rounds the film up and finished things on a high note. There are plenty of such high note moments throughout the film, as well as the many in-jokes and… |
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Armageddon
…slasher and horror films to various degrees of success; unlike the knowing Dark Castle films from Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver, Bay’s remakes can be pretty nasty films. As such,… |
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The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!
…the likes of the Taken films and the more family friendly Arthur And The Invisibles franchise) film evoking a variety of visual techniques to tell its haunting but beautiful story…. |
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Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!
…was my first live-action film. I was learning on the job – on a film that kept changing to essentially a different film. We start off in the 19th century,… |
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Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition
…with its original six-track musical score preserved in 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. Running a good-half hour, the film basically presents amazing images from the Grand Canyon itself, synchronised through on-camera… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…exceptional DVD handling of their Entertainment Rights-owned catalog, the Filmation Studio and their many properties are seeing something of a reappraisal. While Filmation did turn out some spectacular shows and… |
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Metropolis
…influenced the writing of the movie. Lastly, Filmmaker Interviews (8:04) gives us more insight from Rintaro and Otomo, specifically talking about using CGI in the film, and doing the film… |
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Ratatouille
…They needn’t have worried…what Bird brings to the idea is his unparalleled eye for animated filmmaking. Ratatouille is easily his best computer animated film, though whether it touches the more… |
