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D23 Expo 2024 Exclusive
…of the series that tickled the interest of fans. But what pulled them in was the sudden performance of “The Ballad of the Witches’ Road” by the cast Kathryn Hahn… |
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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…and a dazzling extended preview clip ahead of the film’s release later in the year. Closing the presentation would be the official announcement of the feature to be released the… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…the unexpected directions they took in character development, further enhanced by the top notch voice acting of Plaza and the DeVitos. If the rest of the series manages to maintain… |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire – 2 Movie Collection
…nostalgia to help them along. On the flipside, the action moments, when they come, are very well done and remain a huge part of the enjoyment of the movie, being… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions
…expand upon the concept, although unlike the exposition of the rejected version of the first movie, there’s unfortunately nothing on the direct-to-video roots of this sequel. A John Lasseter Profile… |
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2024 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…update fans on their animated programs. There were previews for the third season of The Legend of Vox Machina, the series adapting their first campaign, and even showed off animatics… |
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Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942
…ago to remaster these prints as part of their all-inclusive Ultimate Superman Motion Pictures Collection, which assembled all of the Man Of Steel’s theatrical appearances, from these cartoons, through the… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…is also a combination of the principles of classical animation, the principles of romantic comedy and the principles of action-adventure films. How did you manage to mix and, most of… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…in any of the group signings for The Owl House panelists [right]. And what massive lines these had, to the point that they went outside the convention center with the… |
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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…way. You know, all the eyes look the same, all the mouths look the same. Even the way some of them move, you know. The dad at the beginning of… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…the extended toy commercials of the 1980s had all but put me off television animation, though the launch of Batman: The Animated Series, which fed off the hype surrounding Burton’s… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…we loved in the first film. The slightly “off” nature of the film continues throughout the rest of the soundtrack, never really becoming truly enveloping. The savannah doesn’t have the… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…Hopefully in 2022, we can put most of the dystopia behind us. But until then, dystopia was the theme of some of the best animated films released in 2021. The… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…explain the fact that you got down to the bottom of the ride and you find the skeleton pirates? How did they get there? And why? They went down there… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…layers of entertainment, with the new documentary filling in the backstory without laboring over the details. Apart from the shoehorned inserts of the Johnny Depp addition to Pirates Of The… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…King. Towards the end of the 2010s, the merger with 20th Century Fox was met with a mixed reception, as some of the properties they acquired through the massive move… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete First Season
…Zorro logo at the end of the opening credits (matching the echo of the name in the song, the logo multiply fades back against the silhouette of Zorro on Tornado… |
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Team America: World Police – Unrated
…cracks me every time, from the obnoxious nature of the characters, to their line readings, which often strike the funny bone in their own right. Those who don’t like the… |
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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…the most notable of these films was Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, quite possibly the best animated movie of the year. Also falling into the category of “why are they making… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…throughout the company were addressed and reassured their jobs were safe – but, no mention of the fate of the Circle 7 employees. Then a lone voice from the back… |
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Disney’s Adventures Of The Gummi Bears: Volume One, Seasons 1-3
…just seen these shows yesterday, as well as the popular theme song. The Sherman Brothers of the 1980s television department, the husband and wife team of Michael and Patti Silversher… |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…strength of the characters that drives it all forward. The brothers at the center of this film are easily the equals of other great Pixar duos like Woody and Buzz,… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…it on LaserDisc, and then they did a DVD of it. They did The Puppetoon Movie. They had a Laser then they had a DVD. So, he was wanting to… |
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Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas
…than under the camera moving the puppet, because of the magnitude, the scope of the sets and the production. That was a challenge for me, to get out there quickly… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…of the great adventure themes. Seems the short may have been temp tracked by a couple of James Horner cues though…there’s the unmistakable mark of his The Rocketeer in the… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…my shelf, along with the superlative restoration of George Pal’s The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm to the always enticing Warner Archive, the bonkers Return Of Captain Invincible in… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…of their rolls, turning the mechanics of the game into the foundations upon which to develop compelling story moments. The Legend of Vox Machina carefully enhanced these for even greater… |
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The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
…on 12% of ballots. Well, in the oft-quoted words of a certain cartoon pig (and a star of the upcoming The Day The Earth Blew Up), “That’s all, folks!” —… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts: 1920s-1960s
…know what? As much as I adore the Classic Trio of mouse, duck, and goof, one of my favorites of the Treasures sets was the Silly Symphonies edition. I just… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…later). The conversation then shifted to the spin-off TV series which is already in early development for HBO Max. Told from the perspective of “the city,” it will chronicle the… |
