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Pinchcliffe Races Home: A Look Back At Caprino Studios
…is fluid, and this new edition restores the image to make it look better than ever. True, and as noted below, the image has been manipulated to fit widescreen displays,… |
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Chicken Little
…way, but there isn’t much substance. The moments between Buck and his son are somewhat touching, but there’s at least two too many of these and they have the undesired… |
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Once Upon A Time…; Peter Pan specs…what's up with that?
…am a little disappointed to say the least. Many of the features are holdovers and carry-ons from previous LaserDisc or DVD editions (the always excellent John Canemaker’s audio commentary, a… |
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Disney tins, rumors, and the Shrek 3 trailer…what’s up with that?
…which I will get around to updating as soon as I can! Expect many such updates over the holiday break. As for new reviews, well, we’re pretty excited here: the… |
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Hi-def disc updates; new Walt bios; Disney Treasures out!
…notes between Neal Gabler’s new Walt Disney bio and his own book, The Animated Man: A Life Of Walt Disney. His notes make for very interesting reading and reveal a… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
…to prove they could produce their own in-house fully animated projects while still handling their expanding SFX work on such blockbuster features as the Harry Potter and Spider-Man series. Released… |
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Flushed Away
…that to create a set that could house both human and rat-sized characters would have been prohibitive, but in truth Aardman have faced much tougher challenges in the past and… |
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The Complete Adventures Of The Little King
…of Soglow On The Home Screen, Chris Buchman’s retrospective of the history of the series after the initial Van Beuren theatrical releases. Le Museé Royal (nice!), curated by Buchman, presents… |
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Winners Announced for FJORG! Animation Contest Sponsored by DreamWorks Animation
…by a panel of industry experts, including: * Simon Allen, Animator, Pixar Animation Studios * Scott Benza, Animation Director, “Transformers“, Industrial Light & Magic * Spencer Cook, Animation Director, “Spider-Man… |
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The Reef
…crew line up that may ring any bells. It’s produced by Mark Dippé, a man who really made waves – as did Steve “Spaz” Williams – at Industrial Light And… |
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Pixar Shorts Collection Giveaway – Winner!
Pixar invites you to discover 13 highly entertaining computer animated shorts from the creative minds that brought you Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and many more. With revolutionary animation,… |
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Animated Movie)
…country. Though never mentioned in the film, the four young human child protagonists of the story have been sent away from war torn London to live with a kindly old… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…of Paul’s late wife Linda, it’s Tropic Island Hum that really manages to push its animal welfare cause forward, but in a soft way that never seems too forced. The… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…Don Bluth’s own independent short, the delightful Banjo The Woodpile Cat, that has so many similarities they’re too numerous to mention, not least the casting of Scatman Crothers, later of… |
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Peter de Sève: the time of his life designing A Bug’s Life
…the way the characters are portrayed and written. So, they would contact me and give me a general outline. Not the manuscript, not the screenplay, but the outline of the… |
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Dalmatians 101: Lisa Davis’ “puppy love” for a dog-gone Disney classic
…time and you see Anita on the screen, we are one and the same person. And even though many, many years have passed, when I see the picture, I can… |
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35th Annual Annie Award nominees announced
…Up (Sony Pictures Animation) • Ryan Laney, Spider-Man 3 (Sony Pictures Imageworks ) • James Mansfield, How to Hook Up Your Home Theater (Walt Disney Feature Animation) • Jon Reisch,… |
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Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan
…many fans of his work. We listened to Thomas Newman. And then we listened to something from Rachel Portman. I’m not even sure what movie it was to tell you… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…online community could be put to Nightmare‘s director. The film was his first feature, and the prelude to many other successful and critically-acclaimed movies. Indeed, he followed this three-year-plus production… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…the release of Walt Disney’s 1959 animated classic on DVD and Blu-ray, Burny Mattinson remembers working with the man himself. With the inevitable passing of all the Nine Old Men,… |
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New slew of TV to DVD updates
…Bush: Resident of the United States, South Park: Imaginationland, Justice League: The New Frontier, Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown, the two volumes for Warner Brothers’ Academy Award Animation Collection, He-Man… |
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Despereaux: Olivier Adam discusses a European tail!
…film, it can be said that the story of a brave little mouse banished to a dungeon for speaking with a human is beautifully rendered thanks to, among others, a… |
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Peter & The Wolf: A Bird’s-Eye View (With A Balloon!)
…out of the question. Aardman were in production on Wallace and Gromit, Corpse Bride was still on, Cosgrove were doing Rupert the Bear, Fireman Sam was in production in Sirolo… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Composer J.A.C. Redford!
…overall score of Oliver & Company is a combination of many different styles, just like New York is a melting-pot of so many different influences. How did you manage that… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…How did that come about? GS: I think that when the new management came in, they were determined to try new techniques. Their backgrounds were live-action films that obviously had… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…and the memories of some beloved moments in many peoples’ lives. The best thing about seeing this new movie for me was the chance to see the long shelved short… |
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Shrek The Halls holiday special to premiere on ABC
…ogre can. Unfortunately, everyone seems to have their own ideas about what Christmas is all about, so when Donkey, Puss In Boots, Gingerbread Man and the whole gang try to… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas: 15th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…many facts about the original Haunted Mansion and Jack’s inhabiting the house in the dark months. While the many details concerning the huge amount of numbers involved in the various… |
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Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition
…three fairies (delicately portrayed here by a man)! The Music Of Sleeping Beauty is exactly what it sounds like – a video clip on the use of Tchaikovsky’s ballet as… |
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Osmosis Jones
…Storyboard: Osmosis Jones, a white blood-cell “cop” in the City Of Frank (human being Bill Murray), a guy who is so not in touch with his hygienic instincts that it… |
