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Ben’s baaaa-aaaack!
Well have I ever had a nightmare before, during and after Christmas! Just as we were about to post a bumper festive bunch of content – including our look back… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 4
…episodes on this volume focus more on individual X-Men. We have the X-Men’s only Christmas-themed episode, Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas, where Jubilee celebrates her very first Christmas with… |
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Featurette shows Nightmare’s 3-D evolution
Provided by Walt Disney Pictures is a noteworthy featurette for Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas in Disney Digital 3-D. The company’s description for the video is as follows: “Watch… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…same Lowry Images editions of the classic James Bond pictures) and some nonsensical extras (a repeat of the entire movie with subtitles instead of the collectors-preferred Walt-hosted, Pan-centric Christmas Show?)… |
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Mickey’s House Of Villains
…Christmas Carol, fans were understandably expecting something a little more lavish, albeit direct-to-video, with House Of Villains. Though many anticipated – and the disc was trailed as – a feature… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: 2-Movie Collection
…Christmas, and gaining critical momentum along the way so as to be noticed, at least in the song and score categories, in the following year’s Oscar nominations. Winter releases were… |
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Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
…a strong pedigree, so its success should be no surprise. Corpse Bride director Tim Burton had conceived and produced 1993’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (directed by Henry Selick), which has… |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…Ham, The Lorax, How The Grinch Stole Christmas and Horton Hears A Who!), even if we felt a gaping hole in terms of having any more Looney Tunes (or any… |
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Animated Views’ 2017 Animated Movie Guide
…terrific Sing becoming a crowd-pleasing Christmas blockbuster, and The Secret Life of Pets succeeding simply because it was cute. The Minions are curiously absent for most of the first trailer… |
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The Small One comes to region one DVD; Muppetational releases!
…due in the third wave of the series, to be released September 27 2005. The disc will also include the classic short Pluto’s Christmas Tree and Mickey’s Christmas Carol. Transfers… |
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The Muppets
…loved The Muppets Christmas Carol and the less loved Muppet Treasure Island. This was, where even the biggest fans have to start to admit no matter how much it hurts,… |
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Apple lands animated short film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
…author Charlie Mackesy, will be coming to Apple TV+ on Christmas Day. The film, featuring Mackesy’s distinctive illustrations brought to life in full color with beautiful hand-drawn animation, stars BAFTA… |
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A Conversation with Andreas Deja
…guys that I’ve ever met. AV: So did you see him from time to time? AD: Yeah. I had him up at the house for Christmas parties; Joe would always… |
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Superman, Charlie Brown, Elves and Princesses!
…I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown and Superman: The Complete Animated Series! Well, it’s finally here (again, after a limited opening in New York and Los Angeles), Disney’s… |
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More Mickey! It's a big day for the mouse!
…future, with first-look clips from the 2D feature Three Musketeers, the 3D them park attraction Mickey’s Philharmagic and next Christmas’ 3D video title Twice Upon A Christmas. Follow our link… |
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Jack's back! NB4X's Skellington returns for Halloween!
…Christmas: Collector’s Edition (or NB4X in today’s talk!) around this time of year, so here’s my take on the double-disc set that finally does justice to this truly wonderful film… |
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The Triplets Of Belleville (Sony US Edition)
…we see each year. Like Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Belleville draws you into its world – an alternate take on our own – and plays by – and… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…The Little Mermaid, Toy Story, Beauty And The Beast, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Prince Of Egypt, Shrek, Chicken Run and Kung Fu Panda, before co-directing the visually splendid Spirit:… |
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It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
…his doghouse. Read on to see whether high definition can possibly improve on a classic. The Sweatbox Review: A Charlie Brown Christmas had been a huge, surprise hit when it… |
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Winnie the Pooh and Burny, too: a chat with animation legend Burny Mattinson
…career in animation is highlighted by helming the Academy Award-nominated 1983 animated featurette Mickey’s Christmas Carol, which returned Mickey Mouse to the big screen for the first time in 30… |
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Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell . . . Kid Rock?
…Days of Christmas.” The segment will air December 14 on VH1 as part of A Kid Rock Christmas. No word yet on whether his girlfriend Pamela Anderson, who herself is… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…Song (1984) was created for a music video project to accompany McCartney’s Christmas 1983 hit single We All Stand Together and flourished into this full-length featurette, released later in 1984… |
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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snow Days
…Brown Christmas, except this time it is Lucy who tries her hand at directing the Christmas play. Aside from an unnecessary framing sequence of Charlie Brown writing about the event,… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six
…Captain’s Christmas (in color), Seal Skinners and Mama’s New Hat are all typically well animated with the MGM budgets but also suffer from perhaps needing to adhere to the comics… |
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Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
…the most beloved by children. The 1969 Rankin/Bass Christmas special, Frosty the Snowman, has become a perennial holiday favorite ever since its original television debut. Based on the hit Gene… |
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Wallace and Gromit's newest adventure top TV ratings
BBC and Variety report that Nick park’s Wallace and Gromit have topped the Christmas Day TV ratings with their latest adventure A Matter of Loaf and Death. The 30-minute show,… |
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Shrek The Halls in the UK
DreamWorks’ animated festive offering, the Shrek special Shrek The Halls is set to play on UK screens this Christmas Eve at 6:35pm on BBC1. The studio’s sequel to the original… |
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James And The Giant Peach: Special Edition
…to be known. Selick’s directorial adaptation of Burton’s poem The Nightmare Before Christmas, a project the ex-Disney animator had developed while at the Studio in the early 1980s before it… |
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Disney unveils 2011 3D Blu-ray plans including The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast
…THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, G-FORCE and CHICKEN LITTLE. These titles will join Walt Disney Studios’ recent 2010 Blu-ray 3D releases ALICE IN WONDERLAND, DISNEY’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL and STEP UP… |
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Batman, Pixar, Pooh…and Cinders two!
…good for a laugh – like many I didn’t find much magic to write about – though it continues our quest of completing our backlog of pre-Christmas releases that we’re… |
