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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…but among all the “nice to have” updates and meagre new releases, there were some definite stinkers that we advise you to avoid at all costs. And here they are:… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…Series went on to almost 100 successful episodes, including follow up series, The Adventures Of Batman And Robin and The New Batman Adventures (all released as Batman: The Complete Animated… |
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Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition (Blu-ray/DVD)
…jokily referenced in The Sword In The Stone) just knocks it all home. Walt went all out to make sure the music was heard as intended: when Hollywood recording techniques… |
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The Emperor’s New Groove: 2-Movie Collection
…how all the characters were changed from their initial concepts, but somehow they all fall into place in this newly grooved version: the Emperor, Kuzco, is a spoiled brat who… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition
…new film, and a new luxuriously hand-drawn animated film at that. I haven’t seen Snow White in about four or five years, but the minute the film began it all… |
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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
…of the disturbing choices and wasted opportunities this new collection throws away, Fantasia is just as likely to dismaze-ya too. We all know the stories behind Walt’s grand, experimental “Concert… |
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Batman: The Complete Animated Series
…new episodes when the show moved to The Kids WB, sporting a new look. This version is officially known as The New Batman Adventures, but many also know it as… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…of the year, when wacky Warners brought us a bizarre new Matrix that felt more dated than the twenty-two year old original. Thankfully, Spider-Man: No Way Home was on call… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…seeking out, as these prints have been given the restored and remastered treatment, with Bone Trouble especially taking on new life. A Play All option would have been nice, but… |
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Disney Blu-ray 3D Reissues: Chicken Little / Meet The Robinsons / Bolt / G-Force
…where characters with little emotional impact can present themselves anew, and not least because the fates of heroes and villains are both known up front, allowing for these extra new… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…storyboarding began in the fall. Experimental animation began early in 2007 with layout and production animation beginning in the spring. Color soon after that. All in all, about three and… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions
…the hype factor. The rest of the disc retains all the Special Edition material of before, a mixture of then-“all–new” bonus features and old supplements that happily carried over most… |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…new and remnants of the creators being left imprinted on those new creations, and the possibility of those creations going on to greater success themselves, began to emerge. Not to… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…energy through theatrics. When I’m working on a movie, I want to feel like I’m making “all the time”. When it’s a musical, you get to fill that “all the… |
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Disney announces ten animated films through 2012
…of these upcoming films can be found in the Animated News & Views Forum) The Walt Disney Studios Rolls Out Slate of 10 New Animated Motion Pictures Through 2012 NEW… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…together. AV: In addition to the lyrics, you said you imagined the melody of “Yo Ho.” Do you have any musical training? XA: None at all. I just hummed a… |
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Bambi: Diamond Edition
…Original Restored Mono, Rated G, Retail: $39.99 Storyboard: New life arrives in the woods with the birth of little deer Bambi, the new Prince of the forest, who is adopted… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…and Shamus Culhane. Even Chuck Jones had a small role at the studio. The first new Flip cartoon under the MGM deal was The Village Barber, which gained Flip by… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Three: Musical minstrels Alan Menken and Danny Troob!
…the songs kind of evolve chronologically along the movie, from Snow White style to present-day ballad. How’s that? Alan Menken: First of all, I knew that we wanted to have… |
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UPN and The WB to cease operations, CBS and Warner Brothers to create new network
…a new 5th network, The CW, to be launched in the fall of 2006. The new broadcasting network will be a joint venture between Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corporation,… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…cast for this movie, and almost all of them were present for roll call. Following this, a special preview revealed who the new cast members of the movie would be… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…read in Corinthians 5:17: “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” I was animating that kind… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…a decent selection, though perhaps Pluto’s further adventures with junior versions of himself might have been a better choice than the often seen Bone Trouble. Certainly, the newer restored versions… |
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Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Edition
…a feature-length documentary which follows the cast and crew from the first day of shooting in New Mexico, to New Haven, Connecticut, for the Marshall College sequences, on to Hawaii… |
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A Conversation with Terry Rawlings
…playing all the themes of the film around you, and a famous dance band playing all night, I mean we were the last to leave! So we all got drunk,… |
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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…they’ve given up adding anything new of note to them! Earlier this year, a collection of titles all provided very nice surprises by including one new HD featurette a piece:… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…melodies amongst the action, begging the point of why Newton Howard and his collaborator Chris Bacon weren’t allowed to simple write a new score? Not that incorporating Elton’s songs into… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…kept arguing for: “let’s just make sure that the music advances the story so that we don’t have, like in a lot of musicals, story stopping to allow a musical… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2: Special Editions
…as a theatrical film in their multi-picture deal with Pixar, though all was of course eventually solved and the two, now merged, are due to get behind the all–new third… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)
…King is setting records all over again and has gathered some praise for its new extra dimension. On the other hand, it does seem that Disney didn’t really know what… |
