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Wizards
…in retrospect. Surprisingly, they pack in a number of shots that don’t do the film justice, though the second of the trailers is best, with more of a sense of… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume One
…playfulness is always present, of course, but these cartoons do more than often show off the limitations of the character. Without resorting to Tex Avery-type gags and comical set-ups, the… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…anniversary edition DVD is a timely reminder of one of the Studio’s most overlooked and much-maligned features. After the box off punch of Beauty And The Beast and The Lion… |
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Bambi II
…our favorite movie-on-a-disc format? While they are the only form of “old-school” animation favored by the purists coming out under Uncle Walt’s name, the lack of story-based boldness and original… |
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Pooh’s Many Adventures on DVD – Winners Announced!
…story for every child. Make sure your family has this beloved classic film in your collection so it can inspire the childlike imaginations of fans of all ages. Tech Specs:… |
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300: 2-disc Widescreen Edition
…sequences, sexuality and nudity), Retail: $34.98 Storyboard: Frank Miller’s retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae gets the Sin City treatment, placing live-action characters into the world of 480 BC via… |
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DreamWorks/Aardman deal is flushed away
…fairly light premise, Flushed Away didn’t do too badly, racking up $62m in the US, and $171m worldwide…surely not the numbers of a box office bomb. But that evidently wasn’t… |
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Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss on DVD
Some nice news in today is the announcement from independent outfit Indican Pictures that Phil Nibbelink’s self-made animated feature retelling of the Romeo And Juliet story with seal stars is… |
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Uh-oh: more Happy Feet? …and: excited about this year's TV pickups?
…geeks (me included!) are taken care of with the renewal of Smallville and the took time to grow on me Heroes. Unlike Lost, which has truly jumped the shark, I… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…The Chump Champ – the only Droopy cartoon of 1950 – is another product of brilliant, cartoon genius. Again featuring a battle of wits with Spike, who usually comes off… |
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Giveaway crazy! Plus the old American Dog/Bolt switcheroo!
…Best Of Casper Volumes 1 and 2. These look to be repackagings of some of the Casper shorts from the muddled Harveytoons Collection that Classic Media put out last year…. |
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Pottermania mach 5, plus The In-Complete Pluto
…favorite, contained practically no story, and didn’t seem to progress things profoundly. If anything, The Goblet Of Fire contained too much plot, allowing the filmmakers the luxury of dropping and… |
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Romeo, Romeo…Sealed With A Kiss DVD Special!
…retelling of the Romeo And Juliet story with seal stars, on DVD. That release just came out in July, and I’ve been itching to post my thoughts on it…but not… |
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Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities
…wacky selection of “rare, lost and strange cartoons” featuring a wealth of vintage material, much of it never before seen outside the film collectors’ market and often transferred from the… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…offbeat inclusion of this Ralph Phillips-debut. Seeing Jones at the beginnings of his musings off into out of the ordinary cartoons, Z-z-z-z finds schoolboy Phillips daydreaming during lessons, and while… |
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Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Edition
…says gravely. This seems to be intended as some kind of important event, but the lack of sharing any of Indy’s skull experience from earlier kinds of makes it all… |
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Snow White and the Seven X-Men!
…of the superheroes. A review of the fourth volume is on the way! Also of note today, we’ve finally got a few slim new details on the contents of that… |
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Snow White: The Characters And Legacy Of The First And Fairest Of Them All!
…the fall of 1934, from several early story meetings in Walt’s office, initial shapes and designs of these characters gave them more of a forest Nome look. • Individually, each… |
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The Day The Earth Stood Still: Blu-ray Disc Special Edition
…date, state of the art spectacles of today. Fox recently released a special DVD and BD edition of the earlier film which split up the much better double-sided contents of… |
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Sin City: Blu-ray Disc (plus Recut, Extended & Unrated Edition)
…animated comic translation of the story that features several points where the viewer can control the action and the outcome of the story. Although I failed miserably at every turn,… |
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Warner Archive: The Big Circus
…Bros. Pictures they naturally own to the numerous buyouts of other output, most notably the immense number of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer classics through the acquisition of Turner Entertainment as well as those… |
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The Transformers: Season Two, Volume One (25th Anniversary Edition)
…Storyboard: The second season of The Transformers continues the success of the show’s inaugural season with new episodes featuring the continuing battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons. The season’s… |
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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume Two
…age robot returns with the final set of 26 English language episodes. The Sweatbox Review: The second four-disc volume of Gigantor brings the rest of the original 52 English language… |
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Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 3
…the humor in the shorts. Of course, having grown older, I can see the differences between different Tom and Jerry designs of different animators as the show developed. Now, I… |
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Superman: Ruby-Spears on their Man Of Steel
…– those kind of great additions come straight from the artists and the storyboarders. JR: We had a pretty amazing crew – and an especially great crew of artists –… |
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Halo video game becomes animated disc debut
DVD and Blu-ray cover art is included in a press release, for Halo Legends, an all-new anthology of seven stories that expands the universe of one of the world’s most… |
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Peanuts: 1970’s Collection Volume 1
…specials a bit at a time. This set covers the first part of the bad fashion decade, including six specials, two of which are new to DVD. There are a… |
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Secret of Kells gets US distribution, Oscar run
…the eyes, in this sweeping story about the power of imagination and faith to carry humanity through dark times. Young Brendan lives in the Abbey of Kells, a remote medieval… |
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Twenty films compete for Oscar nominations
…The Secret of Kells Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure A Town Called Panic Up Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, The Dolphin – Story of a Dreamer, Fantastic Mr…. |
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Pixar and Princess rule our latest updates!
…doozy! Thanks to Chronicle Books, we’re able to offer three copies of Jeff Kurtti’s new The Art Of The Princess And The Frog, in anticipation of Disney’s return to traditional… |
