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More Cartoons For Victory!
…Bäumlein, Das Andere Blätter Hat Gewollt (or, The Little Tree That Wished For Different Leaves) from 1940. Based on a poem, it tells the tale of a tree that wishes… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume Two!
…worthwhile and probably the highlight of this particular collection. Disc Three continues with Little Big Bat (or “The Incredible Shrinking Ghostbusters”?), Really Roughing It (it took ’em long enough to… |
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Director Stephan Franck tells The Legend Of Smurfy Hollow
The world’s most beloved little blue creatures embark on a new spooky adventure this fall! The Smurfs: The Legend Of Smurfy Hollow is an all-new animated mini-movie from Sony Pictures… |
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Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season One
…joy that accompanied the end of the Clone Wars has been replaced with something else. To many, there is little doubt that the Empire is a fascist outfit led by… |
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Armageddon
…blockbuster. At two and a half hours, Armageddon does lag a little once one of NASA’s two rockets inevitably falters and the team finds themselves split on other sides of… |
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Strange Magic
…throwback success of star Ron Howard in television’s Happy Days and the movie smash Grease. Lucas also had a hit around this time, of course, with a little movie called… |
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Oscar, Oscar!
…came with the animation and related categories. Trumping Disney’s strong contender The Little Matchgirl and Pixar’s Lifted was Torill Kove’s The Danish Poet, a nice little film with a very… |
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M.A.S.K.: Volume One
…has to get it back. These episodes hold some promise, as the stolen items often relate to a hitherto little-known civilization or an alien artifact, but the stories go by… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #99: Minions – It is what it is, Just go with it!
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! We go back to the dawn of time to the inception of everyone’s favorite little yellow henchmen with a review of Illumination Entertainment’s 2015 film… |
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Miles From Tomorrowland: Let’s Rocket!
…and getting along with others (all worthy topics in their own right), Miles has its sights set a little higher…quite literally, as it teaches its viewers about outer space. And,… |
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The Seventh Dwarf
…film is a “hilarious mash up of Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, and more!”, those children’s story icons only show up for frankly confusingly random cameos. Red Riding Hood,… |
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Cars 2’s Victor Navone takes the wheel!
…how you felt being assigned to Cars 2? Victor Navone: It was 6 years ago that I worked on the first Cars, so my memory of that is a little… |
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The pirate movie that's no crime…
…tape, but it’s not the same watching the little guy hopping around on a wooden leg with an eyepatch and a parrot on his shoulder!” Boom, boom! Drumroll, please…I thank… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
…Oz picture eventually became. Once again the festivities are largely – and more obviously – scripted, and Walt cheats a little here by being matted in on some shots (probably… |
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Real Steel
…of the production, speaking almost non-stop about his experiences on the film. In the video sections, he becomes much more lively again – maybe he’s just a little nervous at… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 4
…episodes on this volume focus more on individual X-Men. We have the X-Men’s only Christmas-themed episode, Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas, where Jubilee celebrates her very first Christmas with… |
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Iron Man Anime
…little impressed with this fast-moving, battle-filled story that still manages to humanize Tony Stark just about as well as the films. At times I felt a little un-involved from all… |
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Cool World
…bursts at the seams, while the little details and extra touches that mark any great movie are totally missing. Like Holli’s one-track mind’s desire, this film is all surface and… |
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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
Mila is the story of a little girl who loses her family during the war in Trento, Italy. This is the story Cinzia Angelini wanted to tell via her medium,… |
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Shawn Patterson: Composer Maximum!
…Titan, where Willy (this little kid) is searching for something. I used two different time signatures, wrote in a two different tonalities and featured a bass trombone and a small… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…highly unsatisfactory. We had never seen a photo of Bill Levy, there was little that we knew about George Kamen’s career, and the overall picture simply was not there. Then,… |
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Day & Night
…one of them displays the “right” state of play: light, or dark? Eventually, as each one opens up a little more to the other, the many wonderful aspects that make… |
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Brave: Into the open air with songwriter Alex Mandel
…we are.” It’s a little more metaphoric, a little less direct. So, this is some of the things we talked about when I was writing the song. AV: What relationship… |
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The Triplets Of Belleville (Sony US Edition)
…the crime boss’ henchmen and impersonating the “ride machine” engineer (an affectionate pop at Walt Disney, complete with little rodent-like ears). Causing chaos in the hidden club, the group manage… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…of a grown up movie and Stanton didn’t want to scare the little kids that came to those previous films? Okay…I can see that, even if I think it would… |
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OSCARS SPECIAL: The 76th Annual Academy Awards – "It’s a wrap!"
…crew of Nemo for the giving of their incomparable talents to this little fish story that I had”, he said, adding thanks to his producer, co-director and the “incredible distribution… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…film’s twisty, quite elaborate plotting, which pulls off a number of switcheroos quite convincingly, if sometimes a little over convolutedly. We open, naturally, in Jellystone, just as spring arrives and… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures Volume 3: Crazy Crew Rescues
…Tex Avery, Bob Clampett and Bob McKimson’s legendary Termite Terrace output (the WB animation unit had been trying to push new Looney Tunes cartoons to theaters with little support from… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…and Jungle Cubs did little for me other than to tarnish the reputation of the film that “inspired” them, and as for the knock offs to the recent features, such… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #40: Robin Hood – Cheap Quotable Thrills
…funny Disney films. • Voice acting filled with Disney veterans (read Blake’s opinion piece about Robin Hood’s voice actors); Accents = proper English and backwood rednecks. • A little history… |
