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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snow Days
…It’s just as plain as the rest of the disc, a fact made worse when you consider that these shows have no Vince Guaraldi music in them to liven them… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 now available for preorder
…Shoe (1940), The Queen Was In The Parlour (1939), The Good Bear And The Bad Bear (1940) and A Fairy Tale About A Melancholic King (1934). The Puppetoon Movie Volume… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run
…the sickly-sweetness of the SpongeBob love-fest by the other characters in the movie proper and the preschool-like gentleness of the flashback scenes, too much of Sponge on the Run felt… |
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Apple lands animated short film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
…the BBC, who will premiere The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse in the UK, with the film available on Apple TV+ outside of the UK, this Christmas…. |
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The Wild Robot
…described as spiritual. From the snowflakes which float around until they land on an animal’s fur, to the fire which dominates the story’s climax, The Wild Robot feels like a… |
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Helluva Boss
…been warned. The series follows the misadventures of the Immediate Murder Professionals (or I.M.P.), hellspawn imp assassains who specialize in killing living souls on Earth. The boss is fast-talking, self-absorbed… |
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Lightyear
…the references to Buzz Lightyear from the previous films. The writers have done their homework! Catching all the little things that explain or at least call-back to what toy Buzz… |
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Nominations for the 93rd Oscars announced
After a weird year for movies, cinema in 2020 has finally almost reached its end with the nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards being revealed. Leading the animated entries is… |
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Santa Inc.
…that, a reference is made to the size of Prancer the reindeer’s junk. Then there’s more profanity. Lots more profanity. Then there are “jokes” about women being sexually assaulted at… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
…the movie isn’t intended to leave its viewers quite literally in the dark, which probably means there was something wrong with the presentation at my theater…which is especially frustrating when… |
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Smallfoot
…variety. That may be down to the fact that so much of the first half of the film seems aimed more at the preschool crowd and by the time we… |
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The Bad Guys
…back in 2016. The last time they wowed me? Twelve years ago with How to Train Your Dragon in 2010. They’ve given up their mantle of the “best studio behind… |
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Elio
…by extraterrestrials who have recently discovered the satellite Voyager (yes, the same real-life one from Star Trek: The Motion Picture) and want to find a new ambassador to join their… |
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Inside Out 2
…the two Inside Out films, the writers had too many conveniently easy solutions for the characters since they could just make up whatever they wanted since they were creating the… |
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Transformers One
Before they became sworn enemies, Orion Pax (the future Optimus Prime) and D-16 (Megatron) were best friends at the bottom of society on the planet Cybertron. Toiling away in the… |
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Lion King animator Tony Bancroft takes “warthog”’s share on Pumbaa!
…CGI and lowered the camera down to the level of Simba so that the audiences feel the fear of the little lion cub as they rush past him. In 3D… |
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Disney’s Encanto digital soundtrack release now available!
…the film. In the film, the magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal—every child… |
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Disney historian Christian Renaut presents volume two of his Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…Besides the many anecdotes by the artists themselves, I could get in touch with the sons and daughters of the wizards who made them: Testimonies by Bill Peet’s son will… |
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Dog Man
…are about to fight, the more they squint their eyes, the wider the aspect ratio of the screen gets. All of these jokes come so quickly that none of them… |
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ZooPhobia: Bad Luck Jack
…nature. There are other characters with defined personalities, but little time is spent on them due to the nature of the story’s focus on Jack and the short runtime. Speaking… |
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The Complete Adventures Of The Little King
…the characters their way, but they also had to infuse them with movements that would work on the screen and allow them to animate under the time and budget constraints…. |
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Pete Nash talks “wonderfood” animation in Cloudy 2
…to made them menacing to offset their silly design. When it came to the rigs they were always need-driven. If, say, the script called for one of the characters to… |
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AfroAnimation summit honors Kemp Powers, Camille Eden, Bruce Smith, and Jermaine Turner at inaugural Icon Awards
…for the FWRD Awards. The fourth annual AfroAnimation Summit will be held April 10 – 12, 2024 in Burbank, the Media Capital of the World, with Kemp Powers, Camille Eden,… |
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Poster for The Croods: A New Age confirms Thanksgiving release date
…couple of steps above the Croods on the evolutionary ladder. When they take the Croods in as the world’s first houseguests, it isn’t long before tensions escalate between the cave… |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power trailer teases epic scope
…the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long… |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Power of the Rings trailer teases epic scope
…to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone…. |
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The Garfield Movie
What’s there to say about Garfield? The comic has been around for close to 50 years and is the world’s most syndicated strip. The character is hugely popular, with the… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #60: The Lion King – It’s SFX!
The people have spoken! The top requested film in 2013 was The Lion King! Go along with Mason, Morgan, and Chelsea as they talk about the iconic film from their… |
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Disney to release throw-back VHS tapes of recent animated films
…1994 to 1999. That line was the first time such classics as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Melody Time, The Lion King, and Mulan were made available to consumers…. |
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Timon and Pumbaa Are Dead: The Animated News Lion King 1½ Review
…Lion King movie could be based on that “off-Shakespeare” play. When the public got “wind” of the fact that the third Lion King movie would center on the characters Timon… |
