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Heaps of new DVD announcements; plus the new Splits!
…BD (whose video extras are all hi-def) adds a “Hall Of Armor” 3D option and BD Live features including a trivia option. • Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The… |
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Is Ariel's Beginning worth going back for…?
…filmmakers into a barely movable position where personalities that will find their own arc in the eventual original story have been skewed somewhat to fit the chosen storyline here. It… |
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Back Under The Sea, plus Filmation's DC Super Heroes!
I’m a little tardy on the updates this week, partly because we’re still catching up with recent reviews. Speaking of which, here’s my take on the recent release of DC… |
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Blow me down! Popeye Volume 2 reviewed, plus Shrek The Halls details!
…our Best Of 2007 listing last year, and we also ran a heap of Popeye articles in celebration of that release, including the sailor man’s story, interviews and related reviews!… |
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Let's start the week off with some new announcements…
…complete with some of Tod’s original storyboard panels from the films he contributed to…including the ones that never saw the light of day… Great stuff – stay tooned! – Ben…. |
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Go, Speed Racer, go! Plus new discs and Iron Man 2, 3 and more!
…and BD ($94.98). Following their generally decent series of upgrades (the latest of which Rand will be along to offer his views on shortly), Warner has set You’re A Good… |
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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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Dr Syn, Donald and Annette…it's the Walt Disney Treasures reviewed!
Just in time for some light weekend reading, our band of intrepid reviewers have cobbled together their comments for your pleasure. This year’s wave of Treasures have been out just… |
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Of Paramount importance: a pair of live-action reviews!
…and went on to make some of the biggest spectacles in Paramount’s history. There’s even room for the likes of Buster Keaton, as one of Norma’s dinner guests in a… |
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Christmas Contest: win The Little Mermaid II Special Edition – Winner!
…UPDATE: Congratulations to our winner, Geraldine R. of Boca Raton FL! About The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea Disney’s amazing undersea classic lives on in an all-new story… |
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Peter, the Wolf, and a Nutty Professor! Plus Watership Down's composer remembered…
…title that the aimed-for audience of this outing will be totally unaware of. Lewis is back in his original role, but it’s a so-so final view from me: nothing offensive… |
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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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Encrico Casarosa's Venice Chronicles, plus new reviews!
…he celebrated Ratatouille‘s arrival in theaters via a discussion with the film’s storyboard artist Enrico Casarosa. One of the things Enrico mentioned was his personal project The Venice Chronicles, a… |
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Snoopy! X-Men! The Calgary Expo!
…real-world history, comic book history, and the formation of the Justice League, and did it in an involving story. I hoped he would not mind signing a few things, and… |
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Freaka-me, freaka-you! Freakazoid!'s back!
…the Freak’s stories to single story episode arcs, which not only reduces the concept of the show to something more routine, but takes away something from the strike rate of… |
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Snow White week begins at AN&V!
…features a number of episodes with Magneto at the core. With a grouping of episode-stretching story arcs, Rodney is disappointed with the predictable lack of bonus material, but is content… |
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Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!
…especially around areas of special effects compositing, which was a trade off of multiple film passes of this vintage, but apart from a slight level of compression (the downside of… |
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Sunset Boulevard: Centennial Collection
…recently produced, is a great potted history of the beginnings of the Paramount Studio: titled Behind The Gates: The Lot, this looks to be the first of series that will… |
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Snow White: Marge Champion, a Model Princess!
…people to work with him? Certainly, there’s a little of both. And Marge Champion is one of these extraordinary people! As her Disney Legend official biography elaborates, “Marjorie Celeste Belcher… |
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Spider-Man 3
…that seems well out of place, and indeed brings the otherwise exciting climax of the film to a crashing thud of a stop until it motors up again. And just… |
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Superman, Batman…and Tink!
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies reviewed, and Tinkerbell And The Lost Treasure’s art director Ellen Jin Over interviewed! Providing a look at two different aspects of the home video movie market today… |
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Demme to animate Zeitoun
…Times. The book by Dave Eggers, co-author of the Where the Wild Things Are screenplay, tells the story of a “man who remained in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to… |
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More new holiday animation on TV
…Landing to ABC this December 1st. “The half-hour holiday special reveals the never-before-told tale of an elite unit of Elves known as Prep & Landing. Every Christmas Eve, this high-tech… |
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New Despicable Me Trailer Now Online
A second teaser trailer for Universal Pictures’ upcoming animated comedy Despicable Me can now be found online over at Apple.com. Me tells the story of Gru, a supervillain voiced by… |
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Docter and Peterson go deep into Up
…the inspiration, motivation, and construction of the film. “The first pitch to John Lasseter made him cry…with no visuals! Did we think we had the emotional underpinnings of the story!”… |
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Animation impact on 2010 Oscars
Awards season is creeping up on us, and ABC News has the story on how animated films might factor into the Oscars. Up obviously could get Best Picture and Best… |
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Pixar leads this week’s CG pack; plus a Fantastic Fox!
…the first part of the bad fashion decade”, as Rand puts it! He continues to address Warners’ formatting of the specials, particularly this set’s double-dipping of two shows. With only… |
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Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure Nintendo DS game – Winners Announced!
…of direct-to-DVD computer-animated adventures. “Working closely with the filmmakers, we’ve been able to once again extend the beautiful environments, whimsical character animations and engaging tale of discovery seen in Tinker… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 2
…emphasis on Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera subjects, we explore the golden age of Saturday morning cartoons. The Sweatbox Review: The first volume of this series was one of my favorite… |
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More good words for Princess
As reviews start to pour in, The Hollywood Reporter describes The Princess And The Frog as “Disney brilliantly rediscovering hand-drawn animation and the value of story. The best Disney animated… |

