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300: 2-disc Widescreen Edition
…the giant Warriors feel like extras from Middle Earth, looking every bit as good as in that trilogy. 300 is “epic” writ large…very large. It’s almost like a movie trailer,… |
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Super Bowl success…but no movie trailers?; new Potter
…if the Studios have decided on cutting out that (very expensive) middle man, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see a fresh influx of trailers for these films soon… |
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Win Peter Pan, plus more archive reviews and site updates
Today marks the release of Walt Disney’s classic Peter Pan on DVD. The film is probably my favorite of the “middle-Walt” period of the 1950s, and I’ll be posting a… |
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Spidey's tangled web…
…would be remembered, as with the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, as having a great first outing, a much more elaborate middle act that went deeper and darker,… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…Emerald City on giant green elephants while name-checking Tennessee Williams!? Though the middle of Journey Back To Oz slows to a crawl, there are still some distinct animation effects that… |
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Recommended books; Potter beats Bond; plus that Tron sequel!
…TV in the 1970s. Their middle-years theatrical style was often compared to the UPA Studio, favorably and for good reason, and I’m just having a ball leafing through the pages…. |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…offbeat inclusion of this Ralph Phillips-debut. Seeing Jones at the beginnings of his musings off into out of the ordinary cartoons, Z-z-z-z finds schoolboy Phillips daydreaming during lessons, and while… |
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning
…all of Disney’s other recent animated releases, with the title slap-bang in the middle of the front of the half-baked cover that only shows three of Ariel’s six sisters, for… |
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Ben’s baaaa-aaaack!
…on The Best Of 2008’s highlights and lowlights – for you to wade through over the holidays, my internet connection decided to cut itself off right in the middle of… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 3
…Weapon X, Lies, and Video Tape. In this episode, a postcard triggers headaches and strange memories in Wolverine. He then heads out to the middle of the Canadian Rockies and… |
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Shawn Patterson: Composer Maximum!
…project where that balance is in the middle; the temp track is important to follow but, is not there to simply be imitated. It gets hairy in a schedule when… |
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
…better. It also came slap bang in the middle of the 1970s, a time when Hollywood films were often looking to their own past for inspiration (the gangster pictures like… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!
…the day for me, and the stories and characters in them seemed quite as real as my schoolmates and our games. Of all the characters in the fairy tales, I… |
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Spider-Man 3
…and Indiana Jones trilogies, as having a great first outing, a much more elaborate middle act that went deeper and darker, capped by a third part that goes back to… |
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Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving – 10th Anniversary Edition
…“From” lines ready for holiday gift-giving. The cover of the DVD, slipcase, and the stocking feature Pooh, Tigger, and Piglet with Kessie in the middle. Disney Movie Reward reminders are… |
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Fantastic Mr Fox
…the middle. It’s genuinely unique in the marketplace, which will either be rewarded by good word of mouth or come over as being too original and innovative for some audiences…. |
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Pixar Short Films to debut on ABC Family
…find its way into their tip jars. Tippy is caught in the middle as a musical duel ensues between the one-man-bands. RED’S DREAM Life as the sole sale item in… |
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Prep & Landing
…launching of the reindeer which has the look and feel of a serious space shuttle launch. In the middle of all the seriousness, Magee calls on the elves to “rev… |
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An Auteur is Born – 30 Years Of Miyazaki’s Castle Of Cagliostro
…embarrassed, middle-aged people). The film’s portrayal of Lupin himself seems to combine both the delicate romanticism of the Chimney Sweep and the Mockingbird’s talent for mischief. Fujiko’s character has inherited… |
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1978 Rings deluxe cover art
…in Bakshi’s brilliantly animated tale of the enchanted land of Middle-earth – and the brave band of Hobbits, heroes and Wizards who set out to protect it. When a dangerous… |
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The Black Cauldron: Producer Joe Hale talks munchings and crunchings…
…and Katzenberg and I was kind of caught in the middle of it. I was with Roy because he grew up with Walt and spent his whole life in animation…. |
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The Lord Of The Rings (1978) Blu-ray clip: “In The Darkness, Bind Them”
…comes to life in Bakshi’s brilliantly animated tale of the enchanted land of Middle-earth – and the brave band of hobbits, heroes and wizards who set out to protect it…. |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2: Special Editions
…embossed shiny slipcover, cover and disc art split down the middle between the characters and the title treatments. Under the slip, the sleeve reproduces everything again, and inside the standard… |
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The Lord Of The Rings (1978) Blu-ray clip: “The Chase”
…comes to life in Bakshi’s brilliantly animated tale of the enchanted land of Middle-earth – and the brave band of hobbits, heroes and wizards who set out to protect it…. |
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The Lord Of The Rings (1978) Blu-ray clip: “Winged Lion”
…comes to life in Bakshi’s brilliantly animated tale of the enchanted land of Middle-earth – and the brave band of hobbits, heroes and wizards who set out to protect it…. |
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The Lord Of The Rings (1978) Blu-ray clip: “Mount Doom”
…comes to life in Bakshi’s brilliantly animated tale of the enchanted land of Middle-earth – and the brave band of hobbits, heroes and wizards who set out to protect it…. |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
…– Murray’s lawyer – suggests his talent is “demolitions expert”! All of which adds up to a movie that pretty much splits audiences right down the middle. It’s genuinely unique,… |
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Warner Archive: The Amazing Captain Nemo
…it may be pot-luck as to which cover you get for The Amazing Captain Nemo, which comes right in the middle of a switch to a newer approach to the… |
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Armageddon
…printing offering chapter stops; the disc art following Disney’s usual half-blue/half-poster split down the middle design. I expect that these releases are being promoted more towards those that own these… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1980s: Volume 1
…the middle of the episode, the Gustav Brothers interrupt the show to talk about gravity (the piano crashing down on top of Ed). As new hijinks continue involving Ed and… |
