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Up
…and Disney’s grand return to traditional animation, The Princess And The Frog. Up is a worthy opponent to those and other films, but it lacks the consistency of some of… |
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Ruby-Spears’ Superman: DC Comics Classic Collection
…been more the background rather than the focus of Smallville, the excellent chronicles of the Man Of Steel’s upbringing as a teenager discovering his powers, and the less said about… |
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Disney heads back into The Black Hole
…remake of the Studio’s 1979 space drama The Black Hole. At the time the company’s first PG-rated movie and its most expensive film to date, featuring the first glimpses of… |
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Prep & Landing
…launching of the reindeer which has the look and feel of a serious space shuttle launch. In the middle of all the seriousness, Magee calls on the elves to “rev… |
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Happy New Year and all the best for 2010!
…the effects, there’s a frustrating mix of the excellent (the subtle withering of Worthington’s human legs, explaining his use of a wheelchair), the predictable (the giant robot suits, not as… |
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Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas
…American Tail and The Land Before Time pictures and launched the Amblimation studio that only amounted to a handful of releases. Even the big Disney renaissance of the 1990s, during… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…Schneider, providing some context of the times in which these cartoons were released, and exploring many of the themes that support the “uncensored” label of this collection. Many of their… |
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The Princess And The Frog
…much was said about how it returned to the quality of the Disney Renaissance of the early 1990s, spearheaded by Ron ‘n’ John themselves, of course, and by the knockout… |
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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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Does next month’s Avatar Blu-ray have no extras?
…of the disc space available to present the movie in the best high definition possible. A future, ultimate edition loaded with bonus content is expected to come out in November…. |
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Disney Legend Floyd Norman writes (and talks) about his Animated Life
…the story. The “ugly people” we often fear. The “despised minority” we don’t want entering our space. And finally, the corrupt leaders who feel they are doing God’s will. Powerful… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…John Musker and myself to consider the idea of setting the fairy tale The Frog Prince in New Orleans. We pitched him the story that became the basis of the… |
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Annies online!
…the year’s best animated productions and outstanding individual achievements in the field of animation. The webcast also featured a special tribute to the late Roy Disney and the presentation of… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…And The Beast: Diamond Edition, Toy Story and Toy Story 2 and 3, The Princess And The Frog, Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue, The Black Cauldron, The World… |
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Warner Archive: The Amazing Captain Nemo
…mega-budgeted version of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, heralding the movies’ fascination with the works of Verne and a whole series of adaptations and knock-offs. Although Nemo, of course, had… |
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Upgrade to Blu-ray Warner Bros. discs
…shipping charge, and the studio will forward you the same titles on Blu-ray Disc. Titles include 2001: A Space Odyssey, Beetlejuice, Superman II: Richard Donner Cut, The Dirty Dozen, The… |
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Warner Archive: Red Skelton Whistling Collection
…that other titles of this vintage. The native black and white photography naturally eliminates the possibility of color crosstalk, but even so, it’s the sharpness of the images and lack… |
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“How much are you asking for, Dave?” – Kubrick auction item goes ape!
…was used for The Dawn Of Man sequence that opens the film and appears in the scene, among others, where one of the female apes cradles and feeds a live… |
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More Shrek and Panda from DreamWorks/NBC
…Vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins From Outer Space and Merry Madagascar. The Halloween-themed Scared Shrekless will air on October 28, with a Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special being shown November 24…. |
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Toy Story‘s full specs and final artwork
Full specifications for the releases of Toy Story 3 as well as the contents of the Ultimate Toy Box DVD and Blu-ray Disc set and final cover art for them… |
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Flintstones celebrate original premiere with day-long marathon!
…present the first full episode of THE FLINTSTONES (1960-1966) ever enjoyed by viewing families—“The Flintstone Flyer”—at 8:30 p.m. (ET), 50 years exactly to the date and hour of the original… |
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The secrets of Walt’s Vault unlocked…!
…about the Disney Films, stories of the Disney Theme Parks and finally stories about out of the ordinary Disney History from the Mickey Mouse radio show of the Thirties to… |
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Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes
…opens up with a couple of trailers for The Lord of the Rings (the animated film) and Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare. In the Trailers section of the main menu one can… |
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Rudolph / Frosty / Santa Claus: The Original Christmas Classics
…has stepped in on more than one occasion to present some of the cream of the rest of the crop of Rankin/Bass’ mostly cherished output, and now three of the… |
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Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
…already stalking the grounds, and scaring away the children. When they finally arrive, they find the camp deserted and are notified that the camp is closing for the remainder of… |
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Thundarr The Barbarian: The Complete Series
…Evanier, and Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway. The main character designs for the show were the handiwork of legend Alex Toth, while many of the backgrounds and secondary characters were… |
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Sherlock: Season One
…be said, that much of a Sherlock Holmes connoisseur, my experience with the original books being pretty much relegated to reading The Sign Of The Four and The Hound Of… |
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Tangled : An Interview with Disney Designer Laurent Ben-Mimoun
…How come the styles of Rembrandt and Fragonard were needed for this story? LBM: It was based on the need of the story and the production. The painterly look enabled… |
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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
…visuals that would be twice the width of the then-standard Academy ratio of 1.37:1 and pushing ahead with the first use of multi-channel sound in order to have the audience… |
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The Looney Tunes Treasury
…The sturdy, red “obi” type of strip on the back cover gives the book a nice touch of class, even if it obscures some of the artwork. (There is no… |
