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Looking ahead to the long weekend
…really looking forward to digging further into those Lantz cartoons!) So many cartoons lately, but so little time… Let’s see… What else is on my mind lately? Aside from my… |
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The Animatrix
…the main sources has been anime cartoons. Personally, my anime knowledge consists of Akira, Grave of the Fireflies, Perfect Blue, and Spirited Away, so it’s quite limited. However, with just… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
When continually asked for more Three Little Pigs cartoons after the immense success of his 1933 cartoon short, Walt Disney famously quipped “You can’t top pigs with pigs!” It was,… |
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Best Of Casper Volumes 1 & 2 – Winners Announced!
…and now these charming cartoons are here for a whole new generation of fans! Tech Specs: Twelve classic cartoons beautifully re-mastered: True Boo, Boo Ribbon Winner, Good Scream Fun, Fright… |
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Casper Volumes 1 and 2 Giveaway II – Winners!
…and Shriek, Red, White, And Boo, Pig-a-Boo. The Best Of Casper Volume 1 is available to buy from Amazon.com About The Best Of Casper Volume 2 Tech Specs: Twelve classic… |
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Aarrgghh! No more Disney Treasures!?
…at all) after 6 waves, and 22 volumes. It’s unknown whether the decision is sales-related, but given the worryingly low print run of just 65,000 for the latest collection, one… |
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Popeye (live-action movie)
…is not known, but Max did allow his son Richard to direct 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea at Disney’s, so one must assume there wouldn’t have been much grievance. Co-producing… |
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Walt Disney Treasures…live again!
…Three and can apparently now speak fluent Duck! With “30 of the sharpest, funniest cartoons you are likely to ever enjoy”, this new Don-a-thon sees the often frustrated feathered one… |
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Underdog (live-action movie)
…over again thanks to CBS’ purchase of his studio and their running of those cartoons each weekday afternoon. Superheroes were big business again in the 60s, with many other cartoons… |
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The Looney Tunes Treasury
The Looney Tunes Treasury By Andrew Farago Running Press October 19, 2010 Hardcover, 144 pages $45.00 Over the past few years, we have seen a number of the “Treasury” style… |
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Young Justice: Season 1, Volume 2
…could have done a way better job of writing these earlier episodes, but maybe that is where the problem is. They have made cartoons for adults and cartoons for little… |
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Loads of Christmas DVDs
…Amazon | Barnes and Noble Classic Cartoon Favorites, Vol. 8 – Holiday Celebration With Mickey & Pals | Amazon | Barnes and Noble Classic Cartoon Favorites, Vol. 9 – Classic… |
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DVD news: George, X-Men, Turtles, Felix
…Aliens Among Us, has been changed to Hun on the Run, with the DVD being pushed to May 16th. Lastly, the site reports that Baby Felix – Vol. 1: His… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures Volume 3: Crazy Crew Rescues
…of a planned two volumes dedicated to seasons two and three (the fourth and final volume is set for release this summer). It’s a fairly low-key start to the season,… |
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Starchaser: "successfully recycles a number of elements"; New Aesop disc
{{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/409 DVD Toons reviews Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin}}, the fun 1980s sci-fi precursor to such films as Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure Planet and Titan AE, which is… |
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Justice League: Season One
…the Justice League. Super Friends may continue to strike a nostalgic chord with many who watched it in the 1970s and 1980s, but it must now be admitted that it… |
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Justice League: Season One
…last show to feature the Justice League. Super Friends may continue to strike a nostalgic chord with many who watched it in the 1970s and 1980s, but it must now… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…you originally come on board to the Nightmare Before Christmas project? HS: I was working with Tim at Disney in the early 1980s when he first conceived the poem and… |
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Cinderella III: A Twist In Time
…what they want before even five minutes have passed and severely handicaps any attempt at a suspenseful build up to plot motivation, which should have been a 15/20 minute second… |
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The Ten Commandments
…some unfortunate volume fluctuations mean the lyrics aren’t always easy to pick out. The Ten Commandments Challenge might sound like a fun game, and even begins like one (“60% of… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…of 200 images present these selected frames, which include alternate camera angles and even stills from ultimately deleted and long destroyed deleted scenes. Presented as 10½ minutes of slide-show video,… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions
…plus for the 3D experience, and three of Ken’s Dating Tips (1:30), to the brilliantly executed Lots-O’-Huggin’ Bear Commercial (:30) and Lots-O’-Huggin’ Bear Japanese Commercial (:30) that both run like… |
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Real Steel
…by extension his Amblin and DreamWorks production arms, has been on a bit of a 1980s kick of late. Already the superb collaboration with JJ Abrams, Super 8, has impressed,… |
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Saving Mr Banks
…retro-melding of the 1980s blue castle Disney emblem combined with the text format of a 1940s cartoon title card that has the strange effect of suggesting “Walt Disney Presents”…!) that… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…People – Volume 14 should be released in March or April this year, with Volume 15 following around December. On February 1, the autobiography of the head of the Walt… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #94: The Brave Little Toaster – Let the ‘Toy Story’ Comparisons Begin!
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The Rotoscopers take a look back at an interesting 1980s animated film, Disney’s The Brave Little Toaster. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV7628680739.mp3 Highlights Morgan gives the update of the… |
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How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote (twice) as he pleased…
…The Hidden Art Of Disney’s Musical Years, the second volume in the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking series by Didier Ghez, examines this particular period as never before. For this volume,… |
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Finding Dory
…that, had it been made in the 1980s, viewers of a certain age would now be remembering with a nostalgic fondness, and although we were unable to secure review coverage… |
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The BFG
…consideration. After a string of hitts in the 1980s, which saw his Steven Spielberg Presents banner mix broad commercial fare as Gremlins and Back To The Future with the films… |
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Showrunner Rob David and Co-Executive Producer Jeff Matsuda on He-Man
Since its creation in 1982, the Masters Of The Universe franchise has transcended generations and ignited passion amongst fans around the world. Now, nearly 40 years later, Mattel’s relaunch of… |
