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Hi-def disc updates; new Walt bios; Disney Treasures out!
…and a sneak peek at the upcoming game) packaged with postcards, a movie script and a character booklet, going for $49.95, also on January 6th. Meanwhile, yesterday’s sad news of… |
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The Best Of Casper: Volumes 1 and 2
…been updating and reissuing many of those initial titles with an eye on the collectors’ market, but sadly not often enough with a collector’s process in place. The same can… |
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams
…is a profit seeking company and, like it or not, it always has been. The difference was that, back in Walt’s day, the money was ploughed back into the company… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…hi-def master out there that could well have been used to downconvert this to a 16×9 anamorphic edition at the very least. Still, for a collection whose material has been… |
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Treasures saved?; Number one Night; Iron Man reviewed!
…box sets, which had been marked for the chop, look set to continue for at least another couple of waves! Thanks to our reader Daniel Jake in the Animated News… |
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Aardman's new home; Treasures still a comin'; new contest and more reviews on the way, plus a recharge to the site coming soon…
Well, there’s no denying that we’ve been a bit slack here at the ol’ Views while other things have been taking up our lives. Rand’s jumped in feet first a… |
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Happily N'Ever After n'ow on DVD…
…movie (featuring voices including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr, George Carlin, Sigourney Weaver and others) didn’t gain much favor in our own James R. Whitson’s theatrical review, the DVD… |
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Pirates continues to plunder box-office booty!
…grosses worldwide to date. Apart from other notable records, At World’s End has become only the 24th film in movie history to have grossed more than $400 million overseas, but… |
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Surf's Up at Animated Views!
…Calling it “a wonderfully original animated film”, James praises the documentary approach that gives the movie its uniqueness before starting to worry that, in copy-cat Hollywood fashion, we’ll now see… |
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Narnia news: director Apted an "interesting" choice for Voyage…
…Our Surf’s Up coverage includes an interview with the film’s directors as well as a full review of the movie itself. Our most recent DVD Reviews cover the deluxe attention… |
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Join the 300 on DVD and online!
…movie was based on the stylized graphic novel by Sin City‘s Frank Miller, and used the same technique as that film to bring the action to life, with the leads… |
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More Transformers; Frog villain cast; DVD sales and more!
…of a movie right here, but my choice would have been the official number two, Night At The Museum, a truly solid family outing. Animated titles rounding out the Top… |
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Mickey quits…
I wasn’t able to get to The Simpsons Movie as hoped last night, but will be in line come this weekend, as will our man James who will no doubt… |
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Time for a Renaissance and another Amazon sale!
…some older titles, including several well recommended ones and animation releases you may have been waiting for such a price drop on. Here are my personal picks of the bunch,… |
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The roar of the 300 and the whimper of the Aqua Teens…
We’ve a couple of new reviews to round out the week and just in time for some light weekend reading! First up, I was almost impressed by Zack Snyder’s movie… |
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Birdman, Terabithia, and – finally – contest winners!
…have to say I was almost blown away by this very good little movie. As anyone who hasn’t read the book and been led by the special effects marketing would… |
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Plague Dogs uncut DVD, plus Joy To Sky's World
…have) back in the day, it’s only been the heavily edited edition that has been seen since. Australia’s Big Sky Video made a valiant attempt to present the original cut… |
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Back and "looking" better than ever! Plus Super Powers and Pirates!
…is that Disney has seen fit to include an insert in the package that answers some of the many questions moviegoers had! That’s right…the movie itself is so overburdened with… |
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Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas
…The Sweatbox Review: And so the last taboo of Disney Animation has been broken. Recently we’ve said goodbye to animated musicals, and even the traditionally drawn 2D feature itself, replaced… |
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Blu-Thunder: the format war is as good as over; plus Turok!
Apologies if you’ve been trying to access the sites today, but we seem to have had a bit of downtime – I know it’s taken me a while at least… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…Bugs Bunny Movie compilation movie, always seemed to be more modern than most of the Bunny cartoons I ever saw, and it’s because it came from 1958, when the graphically-influenced,… |
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Our Enchanted celebrations continue!
…director Kevin Lima’s movie set! Also, look for our full review of the movie and the new DVD – out tomorrow – which I’ll hopefully be posting later today, and… |
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Another walk in the Park…
…Imaginationland trilogy. This gathering of three episodes from the always outrageous program has been stitched together in a single movie form, presenting about as close as we’re likely to get,… |
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Comic-Con update, plus Fred 'n' Yogi's movies finally on DVD!
Just a quick note before the weekend to say that we’ve been beavering away on our Comic-Con reports and should have them all up over the weekend, so keep checking… |
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Ariel's Beginning's composers sing, and Open Season 2!?
…scores. For those both for and against the new movie, this is a very insightful read in more ways than one: it seems its strengths and weaknesses are acknowledged by… |
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It's the great review stack-up, Charlie Brown!
…for Pixar’s second movie. • Schoolhouse Rock: 30th Anniversary Edition – More from Rodney, looking back on this 2002 release in anticipation of the new election collection. • Won Ton… |
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Go, Speed Racer, go! Plus new discs and Iron Man 2, 3 and more!
…Blu is sure to look at least as good, even though there have been complaints of lower capacity BD-25 discs being used as opposed to the expected BD-50 (the figures… |
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Indiana Jones and the alien borefest of doom…
…makes my skin crawl, and if it weren’t for Harrison Ford the film would be unwatchable, but it’s such a flat pancake of a movie that in no way holds… |
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Yogi! Fred! Caspian! All on DVD!
…sequences can have the effect of stopping the movie dead in parts (the result, perhaps, of trying to create a hit soundtrack as well as a hit movie). It should… |
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A Magic Gourd, Chipmunks, Madagascar's Nana and Wonder Woman? It's another packed post!
Well, do please excuse me…but after the excitement of the Academy Awards earlier this week I haven’t been able to find the time to drop in with my usual comments… |
