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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…attractions get little or no (hey, where’s Captain EO!?) screen time at all. There are also precious little “wow” moments for the non-initiated. I’d have thought the fact that Steve… |
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Little King and Bravestarr's best, plus hi-def gripes
Good mornin’! We jump in the wayback machine for a trip to the early 1930s to start this week, taking in the delightfully animated adventures of The Little King, a… |
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Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities
…to those big companies who would see little or no return on an investment to put them out, or the forgotten films that many don’t even realise still exist…films produced… |
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Back to the Beginning with The Little Mermaid…
…the sea-nes (sorry!) for a look at the world of The Little Mermaid, speaking to such names as Jodi Benson about how she brings Ariel to life vocally, as well… |
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Of Paramount importance: a pair of live-action reviews!
…director Erich Von Stroheim as Desmond’s one time manager, now reduced to ex-husband and butler status, again demonstrating that although she has little need for him, Desmond is unable to… |
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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume Two
…released on DVD was when Rhino did so in a very similar 2003 set. There is little to differentiate these episodes from those in the prior volume. They are basically… |
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Up:rising with Story Artist Enrico Casarosa!
…the life in front of us this moment. As for the little kid, it was a harder one to really feel in a personal way. He’s a little bit cartoonier… |
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Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure
…make a kids’ film cynical or overly hip. Kids aren’t so different from when I was little, or from when my parents were little, for that matter. They still need… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…quick exit. Things look good for Randall when Sulley accidentally lets a little girl from the real world into Monstropolis, causing panic within the community, as legend has it that… |
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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 4: Americana
…our history in a time line. I mean, the United States as a formal nation is just a little over 230 years old. That’s, I know, compared to Europe, and… |
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Kiki’s Delivery Service
…films are for everyone. It doesn’t matter if you are a little girl or a big boy; good stories are good stories. Kiki was written, produced and directed by Miyazaki…. |
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Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey
…agreement with Universal to produce a feature based on Margret and HA Rey’s series of books about a mischievous little monkey and the man who befriends him and gives him… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Glen Keane on discovering the beauty in The Beast
…to explain to you a little bit about how I think, and when I was a kid, I didn’t do drawings to do a drawing of something. I did a… |
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Toy Story 3: Pixar writer Michael Arndt tells the story behind the story
Michael Arndt joined Pixar Animation Studios in 2005. In 2007, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his first film, Little Miss Sunshine. Toy Story 3, based… |
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A Christmas Carol
…is a pure stage performance, leaving the animators little to play with in terms of being able to broaden the caricature. It was ridiculous that the short and stocky Winstone… |
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Secret Origin: The Story Of DC Comics
…never going to be a true nitty-gritty exposé or resonate with any nuts and bolts revelations, but even given my “casual” attitude to comic fandom, I learned very little new,… |
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Mars Needs Moms
…Green, or at least one can see Green in Milo, but then he doesn’t sound like him. The eyes here are rendered a little more realistically than before, but just… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Limited 3D Edition
…already packed world. A fun game for fans of the ride is to pick out where little scenes, moments and characters can be glimpsed in the films, but At World’s… |
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The Essential Daffy Duck
…the ordinary thinking in this one, but again it’s a little bit of an odd choice when other such titles as Ain’t That Ducky and Birth Of A Notion are… |
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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…It’s these very little things that go a long, long way to making The Adventures Of Tintin vastly enjoyable in many subtle ways. Most of this is down to the… |
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The Tigger Movie: Bounce-a-rrrific Special Edition
…in order to help shift the old stuff, but in the film and video arena it had to be said that Pooh was becoming a bear of very little appeal…. |
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
…the second Madagascar just warmed up and repeated more that audiences liked of the first, without giving them anything new. You liked the little old granny who slapped the big… |
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ParaNorman
…(see what they did with the title there?) aspects. Indeed, that title suggests something a little more flippant or more accessible: Coraline’s genius was in injecting a little humor (however… |
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Saving Mr Banks
…her early life in Australia, where alcoholic Dad Colin Farrell (doing his best work in ages) descends into an unemployable mess. While these scenes work dramatically, they’re also a little… |
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Animator/Director Nassos Vakalis invites us to his Dinner for Few
…survive in the structure of the world. On the other hand, we have the anthropomorphic pigs sitting at the table. They consume the wealth of the world leaving little to… |
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Watch the latest trailer for The Little Prince
Netflix has posted their first trailer for The Little Prince since picking up the film after it was dropped by Paramount Pictures back in March. Directed by Mark Osborne (Kung… |
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The Jungle Book
…than even the strangely lifeless look of real animals supplanted with CG faces, where the body movement does little to reflect what the head is saying. Here, everything is part… |
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Transformers, My Little Pony, and more to be featured at “Hascon” in 2017
Hasbro has just announced a “first-of-its-kind” convention with “Hascon,” a three-day event that will feature My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Tranformers, G.I. Joe, and others being “reimagined through dynamic… |
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Finding Dory
…version of a cute baby Dory, complete with cute little squeaky cute child voice. Sure, she’s cute – we get it – and her sweet little cute memory loss disability… |
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2016: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…begun to feel a little stale and remaining victorious atop the superhero genre, with rivals DC all but crashing and burning with their own, too hastily assembled team-ups. On the… |
