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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…when the need arises. The rest of the cast, too, essentially continue the Jungle Book trend of playing caricatured versions of their established personalities, the most notable of which is… |
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Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death
…they are mostly “invisible”. There’s a very fine use of the animator’s fingertip marks on the clay to produce the illusion of wind in Wallace’s arms and trousers during an… |
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The Nutty Professor (2008)
…most latterly as the almost as hilarious Rat Race), Jerry Lewis’ 1963 original version of The Nutty Professor was one of the most watched and re-watched VHS tapes of my… |
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A Princely Valiant review, plus best He-Man…
…Rodney takes a look at BCI’s 2005 collection of The Best of He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe and likes what he sees, while Rand takes on their newer… |
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American Legends (featuring John Henry)
…and reproduced cleanly, with the John Henry music score energetic, forthright and the highlight of the entire program. The exuberance of the cast’s performance is an asset to the film,… |
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Lee a marvel at Mouse House?; Disney Songbook comes to London
We end the week with the interesting news that legendary Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee has just signed a deal with The Walt Disney Company to continue his line of… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume Two
…one marks the return of the playful baby seal that cropped up throughout the Mickey and Pluto cartoons, so you can imagine the kind of japes the pair get themselves… |
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Little King and Bravestarr's best, plus hi-def gripes
…of Filmation around these parts too, and will be bringing you our coverage of the recent Warner Bros. releases of both The New Adventures Of Superman and The New Adventures… |
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The New Adventures Of Superman: DC Classics
…much guess what happens in: The Force Phantom/Mermen Of Emor; The Prehistoric Pterodactyls/Merlin’s Magic Marbles (highlights for their simply loopy plots!); The Threat Of The Thrutans/The Wicked Warlock; The Chimp… |
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Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities
…With Kate, 1:20), these short shorts display all the hallmarks of the work of Cartoon Films, the company set up by Ub Iwerks, and until the hard sell comes out… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…emphasis on the Oswald short Confidence, the two-strip opening to the Universal feature The King Of Jazz, the birth of Andy Panda, Woody’s debut of course, and the story of… |
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The Lost World (1925 and 1960 versions)
…believed The Swarm. Here he’s riding on the back of Twentieth Century Fox’s fascination with CinemaScope adventure films of the time. With the success of Walt Disney’s Jules Verne adaptation… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…extras that placed the show in context as the last of the Filmation era. The full-length group audio commentary on the pilot is one of the best we’ve heard. We… |
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Hobbits, Floyd Norman, Lone Ranger, Zorro, Moses…what a line-up!
…Peter Jackson’s Hobbit movies for New Line Cinema. With Jackson himself seemingly out of the picture, I hope he gets the job: there isn’t another director working out there right… |
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The Ten Commandments
…melds elements of all previous editions of this story, combining the lush purple color scheme of The Prince Of Egypt with the kind of edging that’s graced past versions such… |
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Potter, Austen, de Vil…and lots of spots!
…The Beatrix Potter Collection stories. These are really sweet tales that have been lovingly brought to the screen, and while there are slight elements of danger and suspense, the fairly… |
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Eric Goldberg's Character Animation Crash Course book!
…simple! Elsewhere on the site, the reviews just keep on comin’, as Rand offers his latest, for Bravestarr: Volume Two, the second and final collection of the futuristic sheriff’s adventures…. |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…kept something of a hand in theatrical shorts during the early 1960s with their now sadly forgotten Loopy De Loop cartoons, but it was the huge popularity of The Flintstones… |
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Snoopy! X-Men! The Calgary Expo!
…better!) standard definition 60th Anniversary edition of the film to the new, supposedly hi-def version on Blu-ray, complete with blowing the falsities of its “widescreen” advertising out of the water…. |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 3
…not much in the way of special features. The Sneak Peeks section on the first disc includes trailers for Legend of the Seeker: The Complete First Season, Up, G-Force, Disney’s… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 4
…and Sabretooth facing off on the front cover. The back cover has a picture of the Silver Samurai. This is probably the first of these covers that does not feature… |
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Exclusive interview with Snow White herself!
…lane. There’s still more to come, including a look back on the film’s production and, of course, a full review of the new disc too, so stay tooned! — Ben…. |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition
…real success with the launch of the Oswald The Lucky Rabbit character based shorts, for distributor Universal. As the well-known legend goes, Universal balked at the rising costs of Disney’s… |
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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure‘s director and producer take us to a Once-in-a-Blue-Moon experience!
…about the look of this film and what inspired it? KH: Certainly the inspiration comes from the original 1953 Peter Pan movie. The colors and the richness of the backgrounds… |
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Mega Christmas Contest DVD Bundle – Winner Announced!
…Earth Eleven new songs and animation as the Schoolhouse goes green! • Beverly Hills Chihuahua Featuring the bonus animated short Legend Of The Chihuahua! • Lilo & Stitch: 2-Disc Big… |
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Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure
…bar for direct-to-video movies. The quality of the Blu-ray makes it the version to buy for sure, and with an additional DVD of the film included, there’s no big reason… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…a resilient Number 6), the psychological A Change Of Mind and the final two-part conclusion, of which more below. Always a bit on the surrealistic slide of the scale, The… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…Pixar’s competing film of that season that has stood the test of time more solidly, unhampered by the diminishing returns of the sequels upon sequels that the not-so-jolly green ogre… |
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DC Universe Original Movie Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths arrives February 23, 2010
…these legendary characters.” “DC Universe films continue to stretch the creative boundaries of comics-to-film presentations, and Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths offers fans another vision of these iconic characters… |
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Anchor Bay unleashes the fire for Dante
…collaboration with Electronic Arts, which first conceived of a new telling of the classic story and will release its Dante’s Inferno videogame day-and-date with the animated feature. Film Roman, the… |
