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Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra
…and big box-office success, and an English-language dub was quickly marketed overseas to equal praise. In the late 1980s, Disney’s Buena Vista acquired video rights to a few of these… |
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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…in 1946 under the title Arizona 1880, with the solitary cowboy named in the title of the strip soon after. In the late 1980s, Disney’s Buena Vista acquired video rights… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
MPL Films (1984–2000), Miramax Home Entertainment (April 14 2004), single disc, 43 mins plus supplements, 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Not Rated, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Three animated featurettes… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…the usual 30-second promo for whatever soundtrack Disney wants to push. Moving into Games And Activities, and the big marketing focus has been on Timon And Pumbaa’s Virtual Safari 2.0,… |
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Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
Phil Nibbelink Productions (October 27 2006), Indican Pictures (June 12 2007), single disc, 77 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 widescreen (but disc is not anamorphically encoded), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Rated… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…Golden Horseshoe Revue records the 10,000 performance of one of Walt’s favourite Disneyland stage shows, and a popular one at that which ran for over 30 years from opening day,… |
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Hand-drawn back at Disney, and live-action Tintin is coming!
…has gone back and forth over the rights to the comic album series since the early 1980s, and it’s said that he’ll produce the film through his Amblin banner. Spielberg… |
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The pirate movie that's no crime…
…was pure adventure of a gloriously old-fashioned time, with strong hints of Walt’s own Treasure Island, Swiss Family Robinson and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, brought bang up to date… |
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Arthur And The Invisibles
…Maltazard, who struggles to fit all his dialogue into the available mouth movements. Interestingly, the 20 minute-plus live-action opening (featuring Mia Farrow as the Grandma, putting in delightful work) and… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…sprouting up in the 1980s, the studio found much of their guaranteed work going elsewhere. They attempted a return to theatrical material with the actually fairly impressive Pinocchio And The… |
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Little King and Bravestarr's best, plus hi-def gripes
…Of Batman soon. In the meantime, our own Randall Cyrenne has hijacked the wayback machine to go back to the 1980s for his comments on The Best Of Bravestarr, the… |
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TMNT
…in a half shell passed me by back in their 1980s heyday, I could see the attraction in the concept even if the cash-in cartoon show left me colder than… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…hit the future. Presuming that Lewis’ time was now, or at least the very near future, we seem to have only jumped forward by roughly 20-30 years despite a huge… |
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Blu-Thunder: the format war is as good as over; plus Turok!
…pretty much since Blu-Ray’s debut, where Sony had learned from their bitter loss of Betamax to JVC’s VHS in the 1980s, made movie titles and players seemingly more available in… |
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New reviews a comin'…first up is He-Man 3
…The Universe: Volume Three, the last of BCI’s boxed sets to feature the more recent 2000s version of the animated toy line. Despite remarking that getting through all the episodes… |
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The Wild
…been that all along – stories, and when they find themselves on a volcanic island about to blow and a herd of twisted wildebeest (led by a comic William Shatner)… |
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Peter, the Wolf, and a Nutty Professor! Plus Watership Down's composer remembered…
…whom we’ll be speaking with soon – Morley was suggested as the composer of Watership Down, which became her most well-known work. In the 1970s and 1980s, Morley also worked… |
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Oliver, Dave Pruiksma, and Company!
…Company animator Dave Pruiksma, who recalls the tumultuous period of Disney animation in the 1980s when the film came together, as well as lifting the lid on a few insider… |
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The Odd Couple: Centennial Collection
…such is the shorthand the music has become synonymous with. The legacy of the play, film and show itself didn’t stand up quite so well: a 1980s New Odd Couple… |
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Warner Archive: Freebie And The Bean
Warner Bros (1974 / 2009), single disc, 2.40:1, 113 mins, Rated R, $19.98 (available online only from the Warner Archive Collection) The Movie: In the August of 2009, Warner Bros…. |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
…was pure adventure of a gloriously old-fashioned time, with strong hints of Walt’s own Treasure Island, Swiss Family Robinson and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, brought bang up to date… |
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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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The Art of Princess and the Frog: Down in New Orleans with author Jeff Kurtti
…JK:Since hand-drawn animation as a process had evolved, in its most recent incarnation, from the mid-1980s, there was a certain level of production process that had been locked into place…. |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete First Season
…you don’t have anything extra in there, but of course the Treasures come with a Certificate Of Authenticity, marking the numbered copy in this print run of just 30,000 copies,… |
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A look at Waking Sleeping Beauty
The L.A. Times was on hand for a screening of Waking Sleeping Beauty, a documentary which looks at Disney during the turbulent period from the 1980s to early 1990s. Financed… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery in the Mist Edition DVD in April
…bonus feature “So You Think You Can Sleuth?”. A making-of featurette from the 1980s and a sing-along of villain Ratigan’s “The World’s Greatest Criminal Mind” from the 2002 DVD would… |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty trailer online
…1980s to early 1990s. But according to filmmakers and critics the film is no white-washed version of events. Read on to see what director Don Hahn said about the film… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2: Special Editions
…from Making Toy Story (20:17) and The Legacy Of Toy Story (11:41), to Designing Toy Story (6:12) and almost 20 minutes of Deleted Scenes. Featuring eight sequences in various states… |
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Warner Archive: The Amazing Captain Nemo
…mega-budgeted version of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, heralding the movies’ fascination with the works of Verne and a whole series of adaptations and knock-offs. Although Nemo, of course, had… |
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Tombstone
Cinergi/Hollywood Pictures / Buena Vista Home Entertainment (1993 / 2010), single disc, 130 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 2.35:1, DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio, Rated R for Strong Western Violence, $29.99… |
