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Disney on the web; Night At The Museum; Oscar noms 2007
…top. It’s an extremely fun little picture, the best family outing for the recent holiday season certainly, and deserves the success it is generating. I got a big kick out… |
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Oscar-winner interview, Abrams' Trek, Laurel & Hardy's animated themes, and more Dinosaurs!
…a very nice little read. Look for our final part in this series, when Josh speaks to The Little Matchgirl director Roger Allers, soon! Next up is some cool news… |
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Oscar interviews, site updates and new reviews!
…by discussing The Little Matchgirl (available on The Little Mermaid DVD) with director Roger Allers. In the chat, Allers remarks on the short’s true-to-Andersen ending and the film’s place in… |
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Win Peter Pan, plus more archive reviews and site updates
…full review of the new 2-disc set very soon. In the meantime, we’ve got a copy to give away so fly on over, with a little pixie dust of course,… |
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Hero High here!
…hitting stores today. Calling it “a nice little package”, Randall Cyrenne checks out Hero High: The Complete Series without ever mentioning Sky High, Zoom or any of the superhero school… |
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Arthur And The Invisibles
…sweet little film, which comes recommended itself. Zellweger’s co-star Ewan McGregor pops up again in the “now available” Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker, and there are predictable pushes for Weinstein animated… |
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The New Adventures Of Superman: DC Classics
…titles speak for themselves (all are highly infectious, but bold italics indicate especially effective double bills). With each story packing everything into little more than six minutes, you can pretty… |
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Romeo, Romeo…Sealed With A Kiss DVD Special!
…little outing with primary character animation that’s as good as you would expect from a top-notch Disney animator. The story, adapted from Shakespeare’s original, isn’t quite as strong, but although… |
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Hoo-Ray! Classic, really-for-real Disney in Hi-Def! Plus TMNT!
…the jump will be more than a little pinch. The way things are looking, it should be worth it. With tons of deals coming up for the holiday sales, start… |
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Recommended books; Potter beats Bond; plus that Tron sequel!
…History comes very, very heartily recommended, and cheap at under $25 from Amazon. A little more pricey at just under $50 (though still better than the $75 list price) is… |
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The Lost World (1925 and 1960 versions)
…rampage and that of Spielberg’s T-Rex romp in the poorer Jurassic Park sequel (little less than another remake), is a terrific slice of hokum, and even if it doesn’t inherently… |
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WALL-E looks cute!
A quick end of week message to point out my mid-week posted review for the 1925 and 1960 versions of The Lost World, a great little package that is well… |
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Not even a B- for Bee Movie!?
…than the original Stuart Little book, where Geena Davis’ mother character was implied to have actually given natural birth to the Little mouse! Back soon with more reviews! – Ben…. |
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Batman, Pixar, Pooh…and Cinders two!
…very little thought finds the Hundred Acre Wood’s gone CGI and welcomed a new friend in Darby, the young girl who joins the gang for this series of adventures. You’ll… |
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The Ten Commandments
…their own ambitions, but there really is very little to praise in The Ten Commandments. I’m tempted to end this review with the new law that “Thou shalt not make… |
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Oscars, Richard Sherman, SuperFriends and more – it's another packed Monday!
…under some computer generated wow shots that do little to wow. A bonus is the movie’s epic-sounding score on CD, which isn’t bad for under $20, but otherwise there’s nothing… |
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Blu-Thunder: the format war is as good as over; plus Turok!
…animation translation Turok: Son Of Stone. I must admit to knowing little to nothing about this one, save for recent promotions for a video game going by the same name… |
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And the Academy Awards went to…; plus much more in our Oscars Special!
…as ever, an entertaining show, if a little more deflated than usual. I’m not one for Oscar bashing – I like the spectacle, the on-stage presentations and can even handle… |
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It's the Superman music box set, Charlie Brown!
After the excitement of Oscar weekend, things get a little bit more routine today, with Rand’s latest take on another Warner reissue in their new deluxe line of Peanuts animation… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…little to differentiate the cartooning on offer here from whatever else was out there: Horton comes from a time when quality was king. The story itself – as one would… |
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More Nightmares, plus is The Chosen One worth choosing?
It’s a little early in the year, but tomorrow Tim Burton’s ultimate bad dream, The Nightmare Before Christmas finally comes to DVD and Blu-ray in the kind of collector’s package… |
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Return To The Sea (again), plus Dr Horrible and another Nutty Professor…
…follow-up tradition, new to stores today is a fresh Special Edition of The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea, one of the studio’s earliest direct-to-video sequels and one of… |
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Peter, the Wolf, and a Nutty Professor! Plus Watership Down's composer remembered…
…least not ready to blow anyone’s brains out! Nutty Prof 08 is an odd little film because it seems to lean rather heavily on Jerry Lewis’ 1963 original, surely a… |
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Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter & The Wolf (2006)
…with role playing and physical exercises, but there’s very little context other than a few words from the teachers involved in the project, which aims to offer ways to further… |
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Oliver, Dave Pruiksma, and Company!
…Blu-ray Disc showings, and while I would agree that they hold little new for collectors other than fancy new covers and (yay, nay!) redundantly added set-top games, they do keep… |
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A Magic Gourd, Chipmunks, Madagascar's Nana and Wonder Woman? It's another packed post!
…new found fandom. Rodney himself has good words to say about the show, but remarks that these aren’t the best of episodes and that the video quality leaves a little… |
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Monsters Vs. Aliens! Smurfs! Plus the WB Archives open up!
…helmed the movie with Rob Letterman. DreamWorks’ latest animated movie took a little while to get me juiced up about seeing it, having given the look of being highly derivative,… |
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Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!
…rather than completing his diamond smuggling orders, is fantastically amusing here, and whenever he’s on screen he finds himself little bits of business to engage in which are often fitfully… |
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Star Trek (2009)
…me. I thought the casting was great for the most part, though I kept thinking that, had this been set a little earlier, the guy playing Chekov would have made… |
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Peanuts: 1970’s Collection Volume 1
…ending. Not a classic, but pretty good nonetheless. This is the special’s first appearance on DVD. It’s The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown (1974) – Bless Linus’ little golden heart. Even… |
