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Once Upon A Dream: Sara Duran-Singer on Sleeping Beauty‘s Restoration

…animation… Andreas has a Blu-ray disc of Sleeping Beauty and he was – yesterday in the middle of Pinocchio – he was just babbling about how amazing the image was…

Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition (Blu-ray/DVD)

…audience somewhat from engaging in proceedings. It’s interesting that the film did come bang in the middle of the rather staid Hollywood epics, as it does resemble that kind of…

Winnie the Pooh: Frankenpooh/Spookable Pooh

…it is dark and they get scared. Piglet is naturally horrified at the thought, and runs home to his bed. In the middle of the night, Piglet is trying to…

Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy

…Earle. The movie features Goofy driving through Mexico when he encounters a bull in the middle of the road. Goofy faces the bull, not knowing that he is a prized…

Interview with Ponyo on a Cliff singers, Unseen Miyazaki art

…duo of 55-year-old men who sing songs that focus on the sadness and hardships of middle-aged and older men. The song, written by Katsuya Kondo, the film’s supervising animator with…

Walt Disney Treasures: Dr Syn, Alias The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh

…fairly down the middle. We also see more of the Vicar in his more natural church setting, where he continues to do The Scarecrow’s work by clever means of secretly…

Positive buzz on Kung Fu Panda coming out of Cannes

…“Kung Fu Panda may be on the higher edge of the middle rank of computer-animated films, but it’ll still provide your kids with a fairly respectable mix of action, amazement…

The Tale of Despereaux

…a library is very well done. As he reads a book he imagines the story, and these scenes, sprinkled throughout the middle of the movie, are done with a 2D-ish…

Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic

…blots that move around his face, like a Rorschach test. Another main hero is Nite Owl II/Dan Dreiberg, a wealthy and intelligent middle-aged man who used to wear an owl…

Enrico Casarosa’s The Venice Chronicles

…a Mia book, I don’t think it could be even called Mia Issue 3. It would probably be the same story taking up from somewhere in the middle of it…

Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter

…any adaptations) did provide a beginning, an ending, and plenty of stuff in the middle, everything that was shown was usually just a few panels at a time, and would…

Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided

…the Star Wars saga. At the beginning of the season, the Galactic Republic is in the middle of the war with the Separatists (the Confederation of Independent Systems) which is…

Happily N’Ever After

…that bad, if derivative, the execution is just plain uninspired. From shlocky film tricks (“That’s me” style cheesy narration; starting in the middle of the film and then saying “but…

Kung Fu Panda

…right in the middle of it. The action scenes could have been flat and boring or, worse, a muddled mess where you aren’t even sure what is going on. But…

Pete Docter’s Up-bringing!

…create a story both backwards – creating his backstory – and forward – creating his upcoming adventures – in other words, starting from the middle? PD: In a way, that’s…

Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 1

…whimsy almost altogether in favor of the harder-edged action shows. The headliner for this series, but appearing only in the middle segment, was Frankenstein Jr., a creation of Professor Conroy….

The Jetsons: Season Two, Volume One

…Cogswell Cogs. In many of the show’s episodes, the rivals compete ruthlessly for technologies and prominence. In Solar Snoops, for example, George is caught in the middle of a corporate…

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: Season One, Vol. 3 – Hello Mummy

…the show’s original incarnation. In this episode, Scooby and Shaggy are walking back home with pizza when they are distracted by a car dropping a violin case in the middle

Sister Act‘s music supervisor Michael Kosarin takes us to Heaven!

…will very often write the intro that you hear going into the song out of the dialogue, and then the interstitial music in the middle of a dialogue, and then…

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?: The Complete First and Second Seasons

…and lighter feel to it. Additionally, groovy bubblegum tunes would be inserted into a chase scene around the middle of the story. The lyrics would have nothing to do with…

Thunderbirds International Rescue Edition Giftset

…an ugly vertical squiggly line on both ends of a scene transition at the thirty-minute mark, right near the middle of the screen. Additionally, the framing is a little cramped…

A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 1

…their animated counterparts provided a pop tune in the middle of each show. At around this time, Filmation was sold to Teleprompter, a cable company that Scheimer hoped would lead…

Clutch Cargo: The Complete Series – Volume One

…The exotic locales vary from jungles to the Arctic, the Middle East, the Far East, and all points in-between. This is really globe-spanning action. On the way, we meet quite…

Cinderella: Platinum Edition

…Dream A Little, I’m In The Middle Of A Muddle, The Mouse Song, The Dress My Mother Wore, Dancing On A Cloud, I Lost My Heart At The Ball, and…

Justice League: Season One

…of the first season, exploring J’onn’s loneliness and what he would do to rid himself of it. On this disc, Metamorphosis is the middle child that is lost between two…

Cinderella III sells, and reviews catch-up

…me. I won’t be offering a full review on Open Season, but let it suffice to say that I found it to lie in the middle of 2006’s pack of…

Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo

…is just an extra-long episode that probably ranks a little below the middle in terms of my favorites, coming out ahead of stinkers such as when Cyborg entered a videogame…

Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest For Pappy

…the middle, rather than switching sides depending on the pose like when he is drawn (similar to how Mickey Mouse’s ears are not typically drawn realistically in his cartoons, but…

Birdman & The Galaxy Trio: The Complete Series

…Birdman receiving two seven-minute segments (the show’s opening sequence had only his name), with another totally unrelated cartoon in the middle. Birdman featured the adventures of a winged superhero who…

Archie’s Funhouse: The Complete Series

…discs look like little records. Two are in the middle part of the three-part foldout, held ever-so-securely by a locked design that requires you to push down on a button…