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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…the film also features one of the most ingenious uses of the Holmes mythology that I don’t believe I’ve ever seen before, spinning the characters on their heads and overall… |
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Pixar Graphics Art Director Craig Foster on Toy Story 4
…always enjoyed doing that, because that’s something we don’t really see a lot of the time. We did that on Toy Story 2 with Woody’s Roundup and the gang, and… |
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2019 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…the caption “If you don’t like it, you can go back where you came from”. The subject would also allow a brief moment for Norman to lightly compare working for… |
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Abominable
…do enough to make the characters pleasing and, aside from Izzo’s contributions to Everest, don’t really elevate them to being all that memorable. Bennet and Izzard clearly try, but some… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…to declare that Disney was “done with fairy tales.” Of course all of that turned out differently. Disney’s purchase of Marvel Studios helped lead them to become a box office… |
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Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd
…Studios. I have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed them. They were adaptable and they gave it 110%. I’m not saying other choirs don’t, but I asked them things that were… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…art director or someone who had established the mood of some Disney features the way Tyrus Wong had done for Bambi. Hans Bacher and his work on Mulan immediately came… |
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Director Mike Rianda on The Mitchells vs. The Machines
…that I don’t deserve (laugh). I would walk around my hometown listening to The Royal Tenenbaums soundtrack, the Rushmore soundtrack, and the Bottle Rocket soundtrack. I love Mark Mothersbaugh and… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
2021 was another weird year on planet Earth! But I don’t need to tell you! Unfortunately for me that meant taking a bit of a break from reviewing movies here… |
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Embark on an epic journey with the Strange World trailer
…uncharted, treacherous land alongside a motley crew that includes a mischievous blob, a three-legged dog and a slew of ravenous creatures. “Inspired by classic adventure stories,” said director Don Hall,… |
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New special look at Strange World explores family dynamic
…creatures. “Inspired by classic adventure stories,” said director Don Hall, “Strange World is an original animated adventure/comedy about three generations of the Clade family who overcome their differences while exploring… |
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Watch the beautiful full trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
…this month before arriving on Netflix in December. People are sometimes afraid of what they don’t know… From the mind of Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and award-winning stop-motion… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…explosive way. As I respond well to encouragement – I don’t have much self-belief – I went on doing those drawings for a year and a half, and then exhibited… |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
…also fun are the Easter Eggs fans of the game can discover. They’re utilized in such a way that audiences unfamiliar with Dungeons & Dragons don’t need to feel like… |
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Elemental
…fine little film, but that’s it. It’s not really bad. It gets the job done. But I don’t have much desire to go see it again. Four times in a… |
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Indiana Jones meets underwhelming box office destiny; Ruby Gillman drowns
…weekend). Dial of Destiny was aiming specifically for an older demographic with its marketing–notice we don’t have the typical fast food promotion this time–and that may or may not be… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…do get entertained by the increasingly polished visuals, well-realized gags, and zippy music; but the cartoons just don’t quite ascend to the next step of excellence relative to what audiences… |
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Hanna And Barbera: Conversations
…went with grilled cheese and tomato soup like the antics of Fred and Barney! By the time I was done high school, the heyday of Saturday morning cartoons was over… |
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Inside Inside Out 2 with Pixar Production Designer Jason Deamer
…it would be. In a way, that’s good because that means we’ve never done that before, and it’s gonna be something novel. I don’t mean I’d suggest anything, I would… |
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The Wild Robot
…might sound like a weird statement, and don’t worry, this is still a movie that has a lot of laughs. Veteran director Chris Sanders knows how to properly balance this… |
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Christian Renaut’s book trilogy on Walt Disney animation comes full circle
…Hultgren, Jerry Hathcock, Ed Penner, Mc Laren Stewart, Dick Lucas, Dale Oliver, Homer Jonas, Walt Peregoy Don Da Gradi, Don Griffith, Walt Stanchfield… and many others. It was hard to… |
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Banderas speaks about Puss-in-Boots
…film. “He tries to break up the relationship between the two guys,” says the actor, who drew upon his own three cats for inspiration. “Shrek thinks he’s cute. Donkey feels… |
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New trailers…
…for the not-so-anticipated sequel to the animation-referencing Jim Carrey comedy The Mask, available through {{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/news03/031218c.php Dark Horizons}}. Son Of The Mask (AKA The Mask 2), directed by Cats And… |
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First two minutes of Garfield: The Movie to air on Fox
…news that the first two minutes of Garfield: The Movie will air on the Fox television network this Friday, June 4, at 8pm, during its broadcast of Cats and Dogs…. |
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Scooby-Doo DVDs repackaged for Kid's TV Favorites series
…Bats And Scaredy Cats” and “A Gaggle Of Galloping Ghosts”), and Scooby-Doo – Kid’s TV Favorites: Which Witch is Which (episodes “Which Witch is Which” and “That’s Snow Ghost”). Supposedly,… |
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Unshown Cinema to be shown in September
…feature films to be presented include: Reynard the Fox (1937), Whisper of the Heart (1995), Raining Cats and Frogs (2003) and The Table Turns (1988). Meanwhile, the short films to… |
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Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss press kit
…The Black Cauldron, Basil the Great Mouse Detective, Oliver and Company, and I was a directing animator in London on Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I then went to Germany and… |
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Scooby-Doo designer Iwao Takamoto dead at 81
…Ant), The Great Grape Ape Show, Harlem Globe Trotters, and Josie and the Pussy Cats series. Takamoto also designed the popular Muttley, who was featured in a number of animation… |
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Shrek the Musical World Premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre
…School of Art, London. HUGH VANSTONE (Lighting) has designed lighting for plays, musicals and operas in London, New York and around the world. He has received three Olivier Awards for… |
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Animation veteran John Ahern passes away
…on up through Jungle Book. He also worked as a layout artist for Hanna-Barbera on Josie and the Pussycats, The New Tom and Jerry show, Catanooga Cats and Charlotte’s Web…. |
