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Trolls World Tour
…only other tentpoles to find themselves officially taken off the theatrical calendar are Disney’s big budget fantasy caper Artemis Fowl (which will now premiere as a Disney+ exclusive) and the… |
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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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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snow Days
…DVD. Sadly, their decade compilations stalled out at the end of the 1970s, and we are left with a new line of bargain-priced DVDs offering less than an hour of… |
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Elio
…great job of establishing a fractured relationship between youth and parental figure, and while I honestly think Disney’s Chicken Little remains one of the best examples of that in an… |
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Lightyear
…they make for personally important reasons. And those are explored. And we can understand their differing points of view. True, it never rises to the point of making you feel… |
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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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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
…to being heavy-handed, and while there are gentle themes of prejudice here, they never in any way feel like a lecture. Contrasting the borderline grotesque appearance of most of the… |
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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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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
…reformed. The story centers around a heist, and the filmmakers have gone out of their way to get the various tropes of the genre right. Adult fans of films like… |
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The Wild Robot
…it takes place in, The Wild Robot almost subconsciously asks for the viewer to be quiet, lest they disturb the wildlife and scare it off into hiding. I’m aware that… |
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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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Disney historian Christian Renaut presents volume two of his Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…of the book is to discover who did what and how they came to such achievements. Thanks to hundreds of interviews, the reader will be within the studio in the… |
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Disney’s Encanto digital soundtrack release now available!
…bambuco, mapalé, cumbia, and joropo. The score weaves in and out of the beautiful songs of Lin-Manuel Miranda. I hope that the musical imagery of the score evokes the resonant… |
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The cell phone is in charge in independent animated short film Like and Follow
…awards. The main ones were Siggraph, Giffoni and Annecy. The Annecy screening opened up a lot of doors – and when we were selected for the ‘Best of Annecy Kids’… |
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Marvel news from Disney Investor Day 2020
…Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020 Production has just wrapped for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Meet the fantastic cast bringing the film to life.#ShangChi and the Legend… |
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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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The Garfield Movie
…of the film seemed to stick to the Pratt accent (or Prattcent, if you will). There was one area where the movie shined and that was the animation. To be… |
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Anniversary Features
…began the celebration. So the biggest birthday feature was a massive revamp of the site’s design, including a brand new logo, a complete overhaul of the look and layout, and… |
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
…the controlled and steady parents of the their sometimes manic daughter. And Jane Fonda was kind of fun as Grandmamah. There are a lot of movies out there that should… |
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Deaf Crocodile announces Treasures of Soviet Animation Volume 3: The Short Films of Yuri Norstein
Deaf Crocodile has become one of the most unique and interesting boutique labels out there, usually focusing on releases from eastern Europe. Among their offerings are many animation releases. They… |
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Disney to release throw-back VHS tapes of recent animated films
…back to November, is the Fairytale Collection, with The Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Frozen, Moana, and Frozen II. The Adventure Collection will follow soon after, with Winnie the Pooh,… |
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Animation legend Dale Baer passes away at 70
…You’re the Greatest, Charlie Brown and Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don’t Come Back!!). He was a layout and key animator on Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings and… |
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Netflix announces cast and first look for animated feature My Father’s Dragon
…Cartoon Saloon. – Executive Producers: Meg LeFauve and John Morgan, Tomm Moore and Gerry Shirren of Cartoon Saloon, and Alan Moloney and Ruth Coady of Parallel Films. Synopsis: Struggling to… |
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The Willoughbys
…animators went all out. The overall style of the film is based on a beautiful, craft-y, almost hand-made look that softens some of the darkness of the plot. The character… |
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Poster for The Croods: A New Age confirms Thanksgiving release date
…(currently) set to stomp onto the big screen November 25th. The Croods have survived their fair share of dangers and disasters, from fanged prehistoric beasts to surviving the end of… |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power trailer teases epic scope
…Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take… |
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Once Upon a Stage: 30 Years of Disney on Broadway
…Broadway history. After the success of Beauty and the Beast, it was on to the next venture, and all sights were on adapting The Lion King. When President of Disney… |
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The return of Puppetoons
…of Dr. Lao, and The Wonderful World of The Brothers Grimm. This new Blu-ray/DVD set was made possible by the kind assistance of Paramount Pictures (the original distributor of The… |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Power of the Rings trailer teases epic scope
…re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to… |
