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From Johan to Jordan: Peyo’s daughter tells the Smurfs’ story
…and became passionate about that. He’s always been an artist. At school, he used to draw on his copy-books! His first job as an adult was in animation. The movies… |
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Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition
…a knock-on effect from the live-action unit that essentially washed the floors of Disney Animation clean: although Mouse Detective had been enough of a hit, it had still been the… |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
…touristy guide to the film’s central locale using Pixar-style postcards and clips from the movie grunged down to home movie like footage and feeling a tad long even at under… |
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Big Hero 6
…Superman movie in 1978. If Richard Donner’s film had been the trailblazer, then even so it took a good decade before former animator Tim Burton’s Batman kickstarted the current superhero… |
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Justice League: Gods And Monsters
…found this movie to be a real breath of fresh air after the last few DC animated movies. They have recently been mostly set in the supposedly edgy “New 52”… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…The Puppetoon Movie was Animated Views’ Best Release Of The Year back in 2013. With so many studios frustratingly sitting on their classic animation output, it was wonderful to see… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…twist. To accompany musically that voyage between tradition and modernity at the heart of China, Chris Appelhans appealed to composer Philip Klein. Philip’s music has been heard in film and… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 now available for preorder
The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 Blu-ray Limited Edition is a third landmark collection of 28 more spectacular George Pal Academy Award-winning stop-motion and hand-drawn animated shorts, totaling some five hours… |
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\\The Three Musketeers\\ director campaigns for theatrical release
…my movie on the \\Lion King 1 1/2\\ DVD.) Sadly, because of misguided management, this movie is scheduled to skip a theatrical release on the big screen and go straight… |
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A Conversation With Andreas Deja
…Joe would’ve been more of a “smash.” Nobody thought about Joe passing away because he’d always been around, we all knew he was going to make it past a hundred;… |
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Douglas Gresham: Producing Prince Caspian
…facets of the movie from its very inception. I am one of several production voices in the scripting, casting, location, and production of the movie itself and also in the… |
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Rudolph And Frosty’s Christmas In July
…little puppets movie around the screen and imbuing the watcher with holiday cheer. Rudolph, of course, had been animated in this fashion in two TV specials previously, but Rudolph And… |
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A Scanner Darkly
…America’s most respected and adapted sci-fi authors. Having seen good Dick movies that were nonetheless weak adaptations (Blade Runner, Minority Report) and cheesy Dick movies that were also weak adaptations… |
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The Invincible Iron Man
…about these direct-to-DVD movies in general. Anyone who enjoyed the Avengers movies is likely to appreciate this title, which I found to lie between the two Avengers efforts in terms… |
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Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo
…also English, French, and Spanish subtitles. What would have been cool, though, would have been a subtitle track for pointing out all the anime and manga references in this movie…. |
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A Conversation with Andreas Deja
…Walt performing Pinocchio than to watch the movie. AD: I remember Roy saying that, yeah. Must’ve been amazing, those story meetings, him getting up and acting out characters. Must’ve been… |
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Ariel’s Song: Robert Reece, a fortunate writer under the sea!
…final movie, and some of them are presented in the bonus features on the DVD. How is it when you have to let an idea go? RR: When a movie… |
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Shark Tale
…you’re counting on CGI fingers), sat a little uneasily with me. I’m also not quite sure what it says about the current state of movies when a film like Shark… |
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The Lost World (1925 and 1960 versions)
…Beery had been a star for over ten years before appearing in The Lost World, and would go on to famously win the Best Actor Oscar for The Champ (1931,… |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
…instead of a human and…presto! That is this movie. The Sweatbox Review: I’m not sure if its because John Musker and Ron Clements’ take on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…movies. The story issues are not helped by having to start the movie hopping between Africa/Kenya and back in New York, replaying the first movie plot in seven seconds, and… |
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Tropic Thunder: 2-Disc Unrated Director’s Cut
…as it is a pastiche of the war movies (Apocalypse Now, Platoon, etc) it spoofs, even going as far as to present a bunch of fake commercials and movie trailers… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition
…Blu-ray in 2010. Ink And Paint: Walt’s triumphant feature debut has certainly been a film that’s been returned to several times over the years. In 1987, the Disney Company celebrated… |
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Up
…Up-lifting on several levels, not least the beautiful cinematography and wonderful, whimsical score which are the real standouts of the movie. By this point, audiences pretty much know what to… |
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James And The Giant Peach: Special Edition
…Inc. releases used left over stock, the movie has also been remastered for standard definition, swapping the old’s letterboxed transfer for a new anamorphic version. But don’t get too excited… |
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Scooby-Doo / Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Double Feature
…characters from their original cartoon appearances and how they’ve been reversion for the movie. Better is The Dancing Dog (5:30), which elaborates on how Scoob was inserted into the disco… |
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David Couchariere: from Blue Sky to DreamWorks, an Animated Career
David Couchariere is originally from Belgium, he’s been a 3D character animator for DreamWorks Animation for over five years now, where he worked on How To Train Your Dragon, Madagascar… |
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Tangled: Illustrator David Gilson’s dream come true!
…held by the Brizzi Brothers and was about to produce films such as Duck Tales and Goofy Movie. I am myself rather a fan of the classic movies than of… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet’s director Kelly Asbury Opens His Secret Garden!
…animated movies are fully planned and edited BEFORE the are actually put into production. In effect, we make the movie twice: once as a story reel and once as the… |
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Thor: Tales of Asgard
…Avenger’s: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes cartoon. Drawing on the advertising for the live-action movie, Marvel Animation produced Thor: Tales of Asgard a direct to video movie meant to rouse younger fans’… |
