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Ruby-Spears’ Superman: DC Comics Classic Collection
…Hanna-Barbera team, Joe Ruby and Ken Spears moved into the writing department, and are now rightfully credited as the creators of Scooby-Doo among their other achievements at the Studio. They… |
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Real Steel
…of the screentime, they are themselves absolutely first rate contenders, building on the design and integration effects of the likes of TransFormers and I, Robot to offer up some exceptionally… |
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First look at Disney’s Frozen
…find her long lost sister, who has become the Snow Queen. Also featuring the voices of Idina Menzel (Enchanted) and Josh Gad, Frozen chills its way into theaters this Thanksgiving…. |
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Noveltoons: Original Classics
…The Fleischers had seen great fame and success from their Betty Boop, Popeye, and Superman series; but their distributor, Paramount, gained the upper hand when the Fleischer’s two features (Gulliver’s… |
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"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"?
…“Johnny Depp Fan” messageboards in which a person posted their experience attending the Pirates of the Caribbean event at the El Capitan Theatre. Apparently, the screenwriters and other crew members… |
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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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Casper and Wendy’s Ghostly Adventures
…small creature or child without prejudice and they end up having a great time. Then, in the middle of the cartoon, they typically encounter a problem, and Casper has the… |
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Lilo & Stitch: Producer Clark Spencer on a Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride!
…DeBlois, the two directors. They’re the one who really developed the story, and they wrote the script, but they were always nice enough to allow me to be in the… |
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Beetle Bailey/Hagar The Horrible/Betty Boop
…reading and disdain for fighting. Hagar sees the rise of civilization, and he doesn’t like it. The story is really quite amusing, and true to the characters we’ve come to… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Documentary)
…and what happened to the footage shot for the documentary. Ink And Paint: The documentary footage is looking pretty scratchy. There are physical and video artifacts galore, including dust, scratches,… |
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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…the making of the film, the eventual stage show, the Imax and DVD restoration, and the theme-park inspirations; and the second being a re-telling of the story. The one drawback… |
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Wizards
…the back is better indication of the level of animation to be found in the feature itself, and inside there’s an insert that repeats the poster on one side and… |
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Kronk’s New Groove
…DTVs: Pooh’s Grand Adventure, another Lilo And Stitch effort, the out-of-left-field and equally unnecessary Fox And The Hound II (another mid-quel), and the aforementioned New Groove TV spin off, The… |
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The Ghost Busters: The Complete Live-Action Series
…result of the stars “over-acting” and shouting their lines out with enthusiasm!) and fits the dated look of the visuals suitably. Again, kudos to those storing the masters on these… |
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Mickey quits…
…promotions and the like. This year’s big rumors involve The Dark Knight‘s nemesis The Joker, and the casting for 300‘s Zack Snyder’s next, Watchmen, though there are plenty of other… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…Oswald pictures of the mid-1930s, when Pooch The Pub didn’t fly and before Andy Panda or the crazed Woodpecker would make their debuts. As with the Disney Silly Symphonies, the… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…have always had a reputation for the strange and surrealistic, even from when they first left the “factory” back at the time of their creation. But they must have been… |
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Fantasia will amaze ya: full details
…to conductor Leopold Stokowski and his associates “for…unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music…thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as… |
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Tangled: Illustrator David Gilson’s dream come true!
…the corrections demanded. You start with a rough drawing, then you stop, they correct, then you go to clean up and the drawing is corrected and then we go to… |
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AV Readers’ Best of the Decade List: 2001-2010
…699 14 the princess and the frog 582 15 fantastic mr. fox 577 16 shrek 506 17 wallace & gromit the curse of the were-rabbit 394 18 cloudy with a… |
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Uncle Grandpa: Tiger Trails
…Gus, his friendly sidekick Belly Bag, and Giant Realistic Flying Tiger, who is his favorite giant realistic flying tiger in the world. And we haven’t even gotten to the weird… |
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How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote as he pleased…
…Hurter, Ferdinand Horvath, Gustaf Tenggren and Bianca Majolie, the first woman hired in the Disney Story Department. Each of these artists brought their own personality and experience to the Disney… |
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OSCARS SPECIAL: The 76th Annual Academy Awards – "It’s a wrap!"
…finally, and justifiably, nabbing the big two: Director Peter Jackson being crowned the new “king of the world”, and the winning of the all-important Best Picture, reportedly the first time… |
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Upcoming CBS animated specials
…team. A new sequel follows, \\Robbie the Reindeer: Legend Of The Lost Tribe\\, reuniting the original cast. In \\The Lost Tribe\\ Robbie, with the help of an elusive tribe of… |
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Golden Globe winners
…and \\The Polar Express\\’ “\\Believe\\” both lost in the Best Original Song category to \\Alfie\\’s “\\Old Habits Die Hard\\”. Better news went to Robin Williams who was given the Cecil… |
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A Conversation With Andreas Deja
…in the order that they appear in the movie? AD: I started, I think, with that sequence, and then I did the section with Simba and Scar; and then later… |
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Fire destroys Aardman warehouse, spoils \\Were-Rabbit\\ celebration
…fire this morning in Bristol, England, according to {{link http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/10/aardman.fire/index.html CNN}}. No one was in the building at the time and no one was hurt. Sets and props from \\The… |
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\\Cars\\ impresses theater owners and reviewers
…characters from the trailer, including the hillbilly actually provide memorable moments throughout the film and the voice acting is top notch. Without going into much detail, the 2 most noticeable… |
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Beowulf: Director’s Cut (HD DVD)
…permission, and with all due respect, I would like to present my own opinion of the film, focusing on the visuals and the technology behind them. Suffice it to say… |
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The Pebbles And Bamm-Bamm Show: The Complete Series
…it entered the realm of the family sitcom, with the introduction of Fred Flintstone’s little girl, Pebbles. The Rubbles’ boy Bamm-Bamm followed the next season, and from then on the… |
