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Warners on new toon DVDs, plus the DisneyLand…bootleg!?
…a volume five debut this holiday season, again with four discs crammed with around 60 restored cartoons and bonus features. Though the inclusion of more “star-powered” black and white Looney… |
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Shrek's directors talk, Dinosaurs, Droopy – and Shrek! – reviewed…
…decent sales will mean WB stays good to its promise to release the remaining Avery – and arguably more classic – cartoons in the future. So, back with that later!… |
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American Legends (featuring John Henry)
…Brave Engineer (1950) and the recent short John Henry (2000). The Sweatbox Review: When Disney’s American Legends was announced way back at the end of 2001, the rumors of what… |
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Shrek makes it 600 million; plus Jolson sings again!
…an animated film released on a Thursday between 4:01pm in the afternoon and 8:36pm in an evening with a non-stormy weather outlook…what is it with these records!?) and a take… |
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Hi-def, Blu-Ray, and all that Jazz…
…familiar?” Just a reminder that the three-disc Jazz set will feature a restored print of the film with cleaned up soundtrack and a collection of vintage cartoons, plus the new… |
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Crazy triple bill: Popeye, The Simpsons, and 300 Spartans!??!
…“must have” title of the year, check out this exclusive clip – thanks to Warner Home Video – that reveals just how groundbreaking the Fleischer cartoons really were! We got… |
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Guess who!? Woody woodpecks his way on DVD!
…library, which I’ve been catching up on thanks to the absolutely splendid collection put out just a week or so ago. Seriously, this set presents the cartoons just as it… |
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Treasures found!
…– Rodney Figueiredo jumps in for five hours of pure animated gold, a series of cartoons that will “forever sit in animation history as inspiration to the animators of their… |
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DreamWorks goes HD-DVD!? Plus a More Symphonies fix!
…Blu-Ray or at least go format neutral, a major studio has carried out what is effectively a surprise 180-degree turn in policy. What does this mean for us animation fans?… |
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Looney replacements; New reviews: Darkwing and TMNT!
…some of the cartoons on that specific disc were encoded as interlaced video and not progressive as intended. To arrange a replacement, contact Warners’ video help department at 1-800-553-6937 so… |
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Kermit, Piggy, Woody, Oswald…and Jerry Beck too!
…most of these cartoons for the first time, and it was quite something, like a whole new rush of untapped Golden Age animation come flooding through to be discovered. It’s… |
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Spooky! Doomsday, Mickey reviews and Pixar contests!
…low price of under $13.50 at Amazon) in How To Haunt A House, a Mickey MouseWorks cartoon included here that was actually animated by the Feature Animation crew at the… |
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More Walt Disney Treasures!!
…something actually promised for The Chronological Donald, Volume 3 even though that collection didn’t reach as far as the introduction of this particular widescreen process. So in that respect Volume… |
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And the Academy Awards went to…; plus much more in our Oscars Special!
…reveals, there are many reasons to pick up the set, not least some new to disc Looney Tunes, new commentaries on previously released cartoons, plus the Bugs classics A Wild… |
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It's the Superman music box set, Charlie Brown!
…glossy slipcase and new featurette. Calling the two included specials “among the best the Peanuts cartoons had to offer”, the only thing that it seems we must not mention is… |
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Bruce Broughton's Bambi II; More Justice League and Tom & Jerry Tales
…successfully continued the Carl Stalling style through such looney animated offerings as Tiny Toons Adventures for Warner Bros, and the Roger Rabbit Maroon Cartoons and Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three… |
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Let's end the week with a game of Cartoon Catch-up…!
…the street date for Popeye The Sailor: Volume 3, 1941-1943. By the way, for those with all the previous incarnations of The Pink Panther films and cartoons on DVD, the… |
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Back Under The Sea, plus Filmation's DC Super Heroes!
…cheat: apart from popping up in the into to the Justice League cartoons in the set, he’s actually absent from any of the stories, so if you’re a classic Aquafan… |
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Tweety and Sylvester back on DVD
…is much to appreciate if you are a connoisseur of the cartoons put out by the old Termite Terrace gang”, mainly it seems from the plethora of classic character cameos…. |
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Looney Tunes meets Gargoyles…what's up, doc!?
…among the election fever was my promised take on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, the final – for now at least – selection of classic Warner Bros. shorts… |
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More Peter & The Wolf, Madagascar 2 – and a quick catch-up!
…thing and included the two Penguins cartoons in with the BD release of the film, according to the press release. Though it drops the Video Jukebox (ah, shame, he says… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 3
Marvel Entertainment (September 10, 1994 – September 23, 1995), Buena Vista Home Entertainment (September 15, 2009), 2 discs, 345 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Not Rated, Retail:… |
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Snow White: Disney’s Animation Research Library’s Lella Smith reveals the Dwarfs’ Once Upon a Time!
…90. But she would dance on stage and her dress would move and the flowing of the fabric and all of that allowed the artists to see and to understand… |
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Dopey speaks: Snow White‘s characters and legacy!
…the time, when Hollywood collectively believed audiences would not sit through an hour and a half of cartoons. Over 70 years later, they not only sat through Snow White in… |
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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
…the next Superman-oriented movie will be stronger. Is This Thing Loaded? All bonus features are presented in standard definition. A Test of Two Minds: Superman And Batman (19:01) looks at… |
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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume Two
…carries .pdf files for Antarctic Press’s 2000 Gigantor comic book, issues 7-12 , completing the run that was re-presented starting in the first volume of this DVD series. While it… |
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Roger Rabbit sequel to use mo-cap
…he said. But the human characters are apparently fair game: “All the other characters that [the cartoons] would sort of have fun with would be magnificent in performance capture technology”…. |
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Burton, Timm, Katzenberg to receive Winsor McCay Award
…and his internet animation series, The World of Stainboy (2000). Burton is currently remaking Frankenweenie as a full length animated feature. Bruce Timm forever changed the world of TV adventure… |
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Hollywood Reporter animation updates
…on December 9, 2010. Next, THR reviews Sony’s Planet 51, which opens this Friday, November 20, calling the film “a perky though not terribly imaginative throwback to the days when… |
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Up:rising with Story Artist and Dug’s Special Mission‘s Director Ronnie del Carmen!
…us in our interview, it is mostly Ronnie del Carmen’s work. Ronnie del Carmen joined Pixar Animation Studios in the summer of 2000 during the production of Finding Nemo as… |


