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Arthur And The Invisibles
…me, but he’s not what I was expecting as the simple but effective animated clip began! As the camera swoops around to a cartoon high school, out pops a precocious… |
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Join the 300 on DVD and online!
…it takes! For the rest of us, we’ll just wait until the end of July to watch what promises to be an enjoyable, barnstorming action picture of the old-school epic… |
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Renaissance
…clothes, like old-school pops, which could have benefited from more judicious tweaking and eliminating in the pursuit of a smoother end product. The black/white approach, as hard lined as linocut… |
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The New Adventures Of Superman: DC Classics
…The mighty Man Of Steel is back to fight evildoers everywhere in this gloriously old school, slightly camp, but amazingly important television series. The Sweatbox Review: The story behind The… |
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Aquaman swims again!
…action show I remember enjoying weekday afternoons back in the day. True to my memories, Rand calls the show “old school, goofy comic book fun” with “an easy charm that,… |
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Underdog (live-action movie)
…Superman and Lady And The Tramp for comic and animation fans, updating a 60s cartoon for the High School Musical generation but never letting it get too fast paced. Du… |
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Back to the Park, more Peanuts announcements…
…bonus episode); and A Charlie Brown Christmas (another Emmy winner in which Charlie directs the school play, again with a new featurette, two downloadable songs and a bonus episode). Before… |
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The Wild
…and sticks to its focus. Delightfully old school, fun and exciting in good measures, CORE’s feature is especially strong in its imagery, and perhaps expectedly so given the pedigree of… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…though a fair amount of speckling and old-school cel scuffs may slightly detract from the image for those who regularly watch animation from this vintage. But therein lays its charm,… |
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South Park Chihuahua…a new breed? Get Outa Here!
…complete opposite direction, South Park: The Complete Twelfth Season (on DVD) rips the guts out of everything from Mickey Mouse, High School Musical, Heavy Metal, Cloverfield, Obama and McCain, and… |
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The Disney Song Encyclopedia
…his eighteen books, notably on the Broadway musical, whereas his colleague is a high school theater and film teacher. The two of them listed more than 900 songs in alphabetical… |
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Warner Archive: The Our Gang Collection
…a variety of dramatic and comedy short films: miniature versions of the films that were a centerpiece to an evening’s entertainment. With stage acts drying up, many of the old-school… |
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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure‘s director and producer take us to a Once-in-a-Blue-Moon experience!
…films, and I wanted to be a part of that Disney tradition. I went to the Disney School of Animation at Cal Arts and was influence by the classic Disney… |
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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume Two
…Gigantor a classic, but I know that the series has many fans. There is some old-school charm to the show, though I confess I’m a little amazed by its enduring… |
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Michael Jackson’s This Is It
…director Kenny Ortega, he of the Disney musical factory (Newsies, all three High School Musicals) had fashioned a coherent movie from over 120 hours of footage taken during the rehearsal… |
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Peanuts: 1970’s Collection Volume 1
…Brown disc. There’s No Time For Love, Charlie Brown (1973) begins weakly in terms of being a half-hour special, with a series of school-based vignettes. Still, even gag-oriented stories can… |
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I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…during the Christmas school break, which prevents him from fully enjoying a New Year’s Eve party his friends are attending. We finally see Peppermint Patty get very jealous over The… |
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The Multi-Plane Show exhibits unique art
…experiment with this cool, old-school medium.” The show features an unparalleled lineup of artists, including Todd Schorr, Gary Baseman, COOP, Tim Biskup, Sylvia Ji, Ron English and Tokidoki. And for… |
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Box office victory for Avatar
…of $12 million, bringing the animated fairy tale’s total to $44.7 million. It is expected by some to pick up a bit as kids start to get out of school… |
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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 2: The “Disney Decade”
…important to get the characters out in the public. It’s kind of like sending your children off to school. That’s what you want to raise them to do: you want… |
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Ho-ho-ho with our Best Of The Year!
…blockbuster, it’s reassuring to see an “old-school” animated musical holding its own, and hopefully it will withstand the onslaught of the return of Alvin this weekend. Part of what sets… |
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Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas
…or two of dialogue. The old-school charm in the animation again recalls the simpler look of the Pooh cartoons, and although A Very Monkey Christmas isn’t as CG enhanced as… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…has a simple story of a school full of anthropomorphic clock children, and Along Came A Duck sees a frog spending time with a duck family. A Little Bird Told… |
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You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…And since then, practically every school and drama company in America, and quite a few internationally, have put the show on. It is said to be the most-performed musical in… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…the Totoro, and surprisingly her father believes her, explaining that she has met a spirit of the forest. Vignettes of Tatsuki and Mei at the school, and talking with their… |
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Ponyo
…surface world, where a five-year-old boy named Sosuke finds her. Sosuke immediately becomes very fond of his new little pet, which he names Ponyo, and brings her to his school…. |
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Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies
…the stitching between the old and new, but Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies is still a nice slice of old-school Looney Tunes fun. Animated Classic or Back To The Drawing Board?… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…“old school” feel Disney in attendance, and much of the new breed out to impress, it’s Basil to the rescue, in what the packaging quite rightly and cannily calls “Disney’s… |
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Stop-motion gets animated in NYC tonight!
…(screenwriter of Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Adams Family and others) and producer Steve Nicolaides (producer of The Princess Bride, A Few Good Men, School of… |
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Plympton over at Chuck’s
…reluctant angel.” Born in Portland, Oregon and educated at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Plympton has called New York his home since 1968. Early in his… |
