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Some time with Borrowed Time directors Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj
…to study Film at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. It was here that they first met, and learned they could combine those passions into the most rewarding of art… |
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Mary And The Witch’s Flower
…school, meeting the headmistress Madam Mumblechook, who spots the black cat she is keeping company with, and assumes it is her “familiar.” Mary is shown around the school, and thanks… |
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ZooPhobia: Bad Luck Jack
…while attending the School of Visual Arts New York City, ZooPhobia. ZooPhobia primarily followed a neurotic young woman named Cameron. Out of desperation for a job, she unwittingly became a… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…high school, made from pawn shop finds and home-built speakers… and I’ve moved way beyond that today. That said, for a new release movie I want to see, I would… |
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Michael Giacchino cooks up tasty tunes for Ratatouille!
…idea to have it there in the middle of the film and then he wanted it for just the very end. He said: “why don’t we start the song earlier… |
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Tom and Jerry Tales: The Complete First Season
…one Looney Tunes enjoyed with Tiny Toon Adventures in the early 90s. Tom and Jerry Tales falls somewhere in the middle, but it does lean towards a relatively good second… |
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Pocahontas: 2-Movie Collection
…children’s drama then Pocahontas II becomes more enjoyable, what with the rogue Smith (actually a rather portly middle-aged man) jumping around rooftops and several anachronisms that provide their own entertainment,… |
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A Conversation with Terry Rawlings
…a long time ago! And then again in the middle of the night on television. TR: You know the bar with all these crazy sort of people in there, rather… |
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Around the world with Mila: Writer (and Director) Cinzia Angelini
…When the bombing started in Trento and hundreds of people died in a single day, September 2nd 1943, my grandparents took the kids in the middle of the night and… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…He Lives In You, comes straight from the theatrical stage show, and is a belter in that production, coming in the middle of the story. Using it here (as sung… |
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Transformers: 2-Disc Special Edition
…already has enough problems dealing with school pressure and trying to impress the local hot chick Mikaela (Megan Fox, whom Bay’s camera lingers over once a little too often, no… |
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Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 4
…board the ship leading to many chases on the ship. In the middle of the short, Tom and Jerry make their way to the ship’s movie theater and end up… |
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The Lorax
…preached at in some preposterous church of over the top environmentalism. (Unfortunately I understand how people think on the internet. There is no middle ground. You can’t, for example, be… |
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2018 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…top as the crowd reaction was one of the strongest I’ve experienced at Comic Con, and I’ve been in the middle of some awesome crowds. Star Wars: The Clone Wars… |
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The Animated Seuss
…his father was a curator. He attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., where he edited the school’s humor magazine. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1925, he started a Ph.D. in… |
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Lilo & Stitch: A Little More Conversation with directors Chris Sanders & Dean De Blois!
…after his grandmother told him about the animation program at the school. He majored in character animation, and graduated in 1984, moving on to work at Marvel Comics. He came… |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…a plan. He will stop Astro! …Somehow. On his way to school, Pinocchio is accosted by the Fox and the Cat, here named Sharp and Groovy respectively. Sharp comes off… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 1 1933-1938
…generally kept bouncing to the music even when otherwise standing still. Animation at that time still tended to be from the “rubber hose” school of often non-articulated limbs, and background… |
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A Charlie Brown Valentine
…The first act is full of vignettes, and actually focuses mostly on the anxieties that the Peanuts gang has about school— except for Snoopy’s Joe Cool persona of course. Peppermint… |
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Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…are two main plot points, however— that of Charlie Brown’s hoping for Valentines at school, as well as a parallel story of Linus pining after his teacher, Miss Othmar. While… |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…industry together. I’m a big fan of Tim. He’s always had that quirky sensibility, even since our first year at school. But he’s an amazing guy. Even though in his… |
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Bambi II
…our favorite movie-on-a-disc format? While they are the only form of “old-school” animation favored by the purists coming out under Uncle Walt’s name, the lack of story-based boldness and original… |
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Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas
…with “high-tech toons” rendered in the “lifelike” computer animation process. Now, with Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas, the last remaining bastion of old-school Walt – Mickey himself and the gang… |
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Tangled
…in this very smart blend of old-school storytelling and new-style computer animation that may be state of the art, but still comes with a healthy sprinkling of pure pixie-dust magic!… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition
…hoping this would provide the opportunity to include the vintage Joanna Cassidy-hosted 50-minute special Roger Rabbit And The Secrets Of ToonTown, a fantastic old-school behind-the-scenes documentary that aired on TV… |
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Exclusive 2015 Comic-Con Recap
…and Mike Polvani. Combemale did a great job in structuring the panel with Ito explaining the old-school method of animation, Baer talking about the transition from traditional to CG animation,… |
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2016 CTN Animation Expo Exclusive
…Rather they were there almost specifically conducting portfolio reviews. Even a school like DigiPen was there looking to enroll students. As talent was the main focus of the convention, there… |
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Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness premieres online
…he “struggles to prepare for a new school term within his mother’s limited budget. In the process, he learns that it’s not what you wear on the outside, but who… |
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The Pebbles And Bamm-Bamm Show: The Complete Series
…Barney’s kids have grown up, entered high school, and taken on some wacky friends in these family-friendly stone-age stories. The Sweatbox Review: The Flintstones was a milestone series for Hanna-Barbera… |
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Sabrina, The Teenage Witch: The Complete Animated Series
…stories seeing Sabrina’s attempts to help them out, such as when she assists the school team to win at football/track/basketball, or when she tries to help Big Ethel finally catch… |
