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Composer Harry Gregson-Williams takes us far, far away, from Prince of Persia to Shrek Forever After
…a unique light, offering a unique point of view to the movie. Now, he strikes again with two major movies of this summer, Disney’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of… |
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Winnie The Pooh
…that had been forced to embrace CG animation if they wanted to continue working at the Studio. The Princess And The Frog may not have quite been the knockout many… |
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Real Steel
…a movie filled with silliness (and such corking dialogue as: “You’ve been working with those robots for so long you’ve become one”), the way the machines are controlled – either… |
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ParaNorman: an art in the making, with filmmakers Chris Butler and Sam Fell
…up on a diet of monster movies where the monsters were always stop-motioned. Ray Harryhausen’s creatures had a big influence on the tone of these movies. I remember seeing the… |
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
…didn’t they do that in the second movie and save us the boredom of that film!? It’s not such a minor point that can be swept aside, but the movie… |
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Finding Nemo: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…occasion I have been jolted out of a Pixar movie by some fills and textures that just do not seem “finished” (my least favorite character in this respect remains Mike… |
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
…and some set-top games have been dropped, while I’m actually super-pleased that a totally redundant version of the entire movie with burned-in subtitles has been consigned to the trash heap!… |
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Monsters, Inc.: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…end of last year could have pretty much been predicted, especially since the movie was being advertised as coming back to Blu-ray almost within the same breath. The marketing trick… |
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The Lego Ninjago Movie
…The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie so memorable. Though I would like to call out the framing device for special note. That was well done, fun, and a… |
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Pixar production designer Don Shank in his element with Elemental
…like two beginnings on the movie. The first one was six years ago, when the director was just developing the movie – it was even before Luca. He brought me… |
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The Garfield Movie
…it.” The movie was very slapstick heavy, almost feeling more like something from Warner Bros. It also included a lot of action movie references and homages that, again, maybe would… |
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Let’s jump into Hoppers with Daniel Chong and Nicole Grindle
…I love the experience of going to the movie theater and I wanted to make something that feels like you could really enjoy the movie theater experience. I worked at… |
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AV Readers’ Best of the Decade List: 2001-2010
…65 58 flushed away 64 59 megamind 58 60 bee movie 57 61 final fantasy the spirits within 56 62 legend of the guardians 55 63 robots 53 64 ghost… |
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Forty Three Kix kicks into gear with movie times text message service
…charges consumers nothing for its service, though standard wireless carrier charges may apply. Interested moviegoers simply text-message film keywords to 43KIX (43549), using keywords appearing in movie advertisements everywhere. Users… |
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The Jungle Book 2: Special Edition
…look at the story. The events of the first movie are first shown in a delightful shadow puppet sequence performed by Mowgli. He shows the people of his new village… |
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Race To Witch Mountain
…as intelligent a film as Hough’s original, but the material has still been taken seriously, and not turned into a free for all mess. After all, a movie that contains… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…than the character had been called upon for previously. All three of the live-action movies are inevitably cheesy on a grand scale, and somewhat stuck in an ’80s timewarp despite… |
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Brother Bear: Special Edition
…the tally only made it to number 44, though I’m sure if one counted all the “ancillary” animation released, (including Duck Tales The Movie, A Goofy Movie and even Teacher’s… |
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Bambi II
…bastion of traditional, hand drawn animation at the Studio that built its name on such entertainment with Bambi II, a movie that’s been on the cards for almost 65 years…. |
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Cars
…when the movie eventually came out earlier this year I was working on a project of my own and had to choose my time-out movie viewing more carefully than usual…. |
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Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…Sealed With A Kiss could have been instantly dismissible if it were not for the fact that it had ostensibly been the work of just one man. But then, did… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…what it takes to become a classic: heart. On DVD, Monsters, Inc. was well served by Disney on disc, and now, with the movie now revisited in a much-delayed Blu-ray… |
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Captain America (1990)
…conclusion, without the director’s full vision being realized. Some might argue that could have been a good thing, because the movie does have trouble settling on a tone. At times… |
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Brave: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…something of an occasional Disney regular since Pocahontas, but here he’s been allowed to play broad and loud with his doting father figure, in danger of toppling the movie over:… |
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Up: 3D Edition
…from the 1940s rather than any other modern CG movie. It’s during these opening moments – an expertly crafted mini-movie in itself – that we meet Carl and Ellie as… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…a Muppet movie made by the fans for the fans. Disney’s Blu-ray wasn’t totally stacked, hence the placing here, but was a solid presentation of a contemporary classic movie. Read… |
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Robotech 2-Movie Collection
…of an energy source called Protoculture, and this further drove the conflicts. The two-movie set under review here features two later Robotech movie projects. They each have very different origins,… |
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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
I was a huge fan of the first Lego Movie. It seemed to come out of nowhere with it’s insane humor and surprising heart to win over audiences with what… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…League might’ve been my favorite movie of the year (despite technically being from 2017), as it did the impossible and surpassed the hype surrounding it. With massive battles and enough… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…The Puppetoon Movie, and three years after the release of the similarly positively reviewed The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2 disc, producer Arnold Leibovit is back to present another collection of… |
