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And the Academy Awards went to…; plus much more in our Oscars Special!
…online) and the new content – including the exceptional new Drawn For Glory documentary – and unique idea is enough to make this well worthwhile. And the winners are: Daniel… |
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Ollie Johnston…RIP
…and the other half of the Frank And Ollie team, to leave us. Incidentally, although I didn’t include the link in our news story, the Cartoon Brew site has an… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 1
…South Park and the aforementioned Family Guy is easy to spot here, while the absurdities of Ben Edlund’s The Tick and ideas in The Venture Brothers and Brad Bird’s The… |
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Back Under The Sea, plus Filmation's DC Super Heroes!
…here, and for many the real reason the set is worth owning, is the Animation Maverick: The Lou Scheimer Story documentary: 40 minutes of classy quality interviews and rare footage… |
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Where's WALL•E? Right here!
Tomorrow sees the DVD and Blu-ray release of the biggest animated film of the year, Disney/Pixar’s WALL•E, of course, and our full review of the Special Edition is raring to… |
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Of Paramount importance: a pair of live-action reviews!
…behind these exemplary supplements is Laurent Bouzereau, the well-regarded documentary filmmaker. From the last edition, Franz Waxman And The Music Of Sunset Boulevard naturally profiles the composer, and the same… |
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Cost-cutting, Hollywood style…
…& Views bag and get ready for the year ahead. But there’s still a bit of news floating out and about there, so be sure to keep checking back at… |
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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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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…series, thus allowing perfect transition from the voice cast to continue their then very recognizable roles, Hanna and Barbera knew they would have to up the stakes for a theatrical… |
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South Park: The Complete Twelfth Season
…effectively is in their dressing up the topicality of the issues they explore under such lunatic and off the wall frontages. And even with the likes of Family Guy still… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 3
…$23.99 Storyboard: The X-Men return with their third volume of stories from the show’s third and fourth seasons. The Sweatbox Review: While the relationship between Disney and Marvel has never… |
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Shawn Patterson: Composer Maximum!
…disconnect of the music simply plays the joke harder. Many times, the more real and serious the music takes itself, the harder the joke will play. For example, when a… |
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Tropic Thunder: 2-Disc Unrated Director’s Cut
…never at all referenced as anything out of the ordinary, much to the film’s credit) and brainiest of the “recruits”, Sandusky, they’ve gone and found themselves in a real troublesome… |
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Warner Archive: The Big Circus
…the synopses and info on the back are tailor made, so while they all feel uniform, each is different. The lack of enthusiasm comes with the cases themselves, the sleeves… |
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Warner Archive: The Our Gang Collection
…online only from the Warner Archive Collection) The Movie: The demise of the short subject since the collapse of the Studio System and their monopoly on the movie theater chains… |
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The Astonishing Work Of Tezuka Osamu
…removes the influence of the arts in favor of war. The results are naturally devastating, and yet there are images of hope that show the power of both nature and… |
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Metropolis returns!
…discovered in Buenos Aires. The Berlin Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra will accompany the gala screening with a version of the film’s music based on the original score by Gottfried Huppertz, and… |
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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection
…is one of the pleasures of watching their films. Park, who started the pair’s first film while attending the National Film And Television School in the United Kingdom, brought the… |
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Fantastic Mr Fox
…pairing of the Owen brothers and their off and on-screen collaboration on the film. Rushmore, the first of which one might recognize as an Anderson movie, had a fine and… |
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Pixar Short Films to debut on ABC Family
…manages to turn the tables. There’s Geri. And then there’s the other Geri. You’d swear they were twins who didn’t get along since birth. In reality, it’s only one very… |
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Inside The Box: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs DVD and Blu-ray Disc Comparisons
…And The Seven Dwarfs: The Storybook And The Making Of A Masterpiece, and is 160 pages in length. Although some of the pages have had their layout slightly altered to… |
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Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas
…back to celebrate the festive season with The Man With The Yellow Hat. The Sweatbox Review: Although Disney’s well-promoted release of The Princess And The Frog has done well to… |
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Up, Avatar score PGA wins, BAFTA nods
…noms went to The Happy Duckling, Mother of Many, and The Gruffalo. Meanwhile, at the Producers Guild Awards, Up and Avatar lost the top award, but Up won for Animated… |
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Up with the Grammys!
…Of Benjamin Button by Alexandre Desplat, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince by Nicholas Hooper and Milk by Danny Elfman. In the category of Best Instrumental Composition, the Up composition… |
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Toy Story and Toy Story 2 on Blu-ray/DVD – Winner Announced!
…is Andy’s favorite. But when Andy gets Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Tim Allen) for his birthday, the flashy new space hero takes Andy’s room by storm! Their rivalry leaves them… |
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The Black Cauldron: Producer Joe Hale talks munchings and crunchings…
…of Disney live action movies like The Black Hole and Watcher in the Woods, Joe was well placed as the perfect person to bridge the connection between the old and… |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty awakens…
…and Don Hahn, the film’s director, were both present during the era they have documented in Waking Sleeping Beauty. “The story parallels the animated films themselves,” Hahn points out. “They’re… |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
…comes to the fore. Some of these tricks are old trademarks (the use of a book to highlight the main title, the typically direct and symmetrical framing, and the illustrated… |
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Tron…3 and 4?
…to the studio’s reinvented franchise. Although Legacy is itself a continuation of the original 1982 Tron, the project has been given the confusing working title of Tron 2, and there… |
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My Life With Charlie Brown
…the public. An Introduction by the editor gives his own views on Peanuts and then explains the purpose of the book. Rather than printing every little thing that Schulz ever… |
