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Roy Disney Presents At The Newport Film Festival 2008
…it was Roger Allers’ The Little Matchgirl (another Fantasia 2006 piece), based on the Hans Christian Andersen short story of the same name. This short was almost never completed due… |
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The Great Mouse Detective Mystery In The Mist Edition: Scotland Yard (DVD bonus clip)
…animated action when The Great Mouse Detective comes to DVD on April 13, 2010 from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. In the greatest little mystery in Disney history, the renowned… |
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The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo: The Complete Series
…little was done to bring the series into the 80s. Finally, the addition of Flim-Flam and Vincent Van Ghoul were unnecessary and perhaps too formulaic. By giving the series an… |
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We're baaaa-aaaaaaack!!
…a brief post to let you know that we made it through – nope, even that little earthquake incident didn’t stop us even if it might have shaken us up… |
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VES Unveils “50 Most Influential Visual Effects Films of All Timeâ€
…hard to guess which movie made it to the number one spot. This may be the only time you will ever see Darby O’Gill and the Little People and The… |
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G.I. Joe: The Movie – Special Edition
…with its action-packed episodes and memorable characters. Hasbro, which launched G.I. Joe, had already experienced success with The Transformers and My Little Pony television specials and miniseries when they came… |
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Aardman’s Timmy Time to premiere on Disney Channel
Aardman Animations’ new series Timmy Time, about Shaun The Sheep‘s little lamb pal, will make its North American debut on the Disney Channel’s Playhouse Disney on September 13, following a… |
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Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time
…a bit to bring a little freshness to them, as the third Mummy film did by acutely dispensing with the desert completely, for the most part. Usually with these films,… |
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Only Yesterday
…the choice to favor the original language track. As this is a quiet drama, there is little opportunity for the audio to make an impression, but there are nice surround… |
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The Regular Show: The Complete First & Second Seasons
…their boss Benson, probably the first anthropomorphic gumball machine to ever star in a TV show. Benson has little patience for Mordecai and Rigby’s antics, but endures them regardless. Maybe… |
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Titans, Toons, Loons…reviews and a Nightmare chat!
…“with lots of old favorite characters showing up and joining in a big, big story. A little more continuity between episodes would have sold the arc better, but overall, this… |
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Peanuts: 1970s Collection Volume 2 – Winners Announced!
…Kiss, Charlie Brown (1977) -– It’s homecoming night and Charlie Brown is asked to escort the homecoming queen, who just so happens to be the elusive, little red-haired girl whom… |
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Report from the Incredibles screening with Brad Bird
…Incredibles was already complete when he went to see Spiderman 2 and then was a little nervous that people would think he was ripping off Spiderman 2’s “superhero-that’s-saving-the-train-that’s-about-to-fall-off-the-tracks” sequence When… |
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The Chosen One
…style, for the saviour of the Church Of Frank. Although he understandably wants little to do with the place, a $30,000 fund for the Chosen One’s expenses sweetens the deal,… |
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Sabrina, The Teenage Witch: The Complete Animated Series
…too little personality to bear much mention. One old-time Archie stalwart, his nemesis Reggie, gets a special role on the show, as he is the only one who suspects that… |
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Composer Harry Gregson-Williams takes us far, far away, from Prince of Persia to Shrek Forever After
…two scores have little in common, really, just the location of the movies. Kingdom of Heaven was based on historical events – it was about the Crusades, so there were… |
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Bravestarr: Volume Two
…its contemporary Galaxy Rangers). While some may find the series to be a little too “after school special” in its moralizing, one has to admire a studio that stood for… |
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Despicable Me 2
…Pixar, a sequel is a given, is expected, and is looked forward to. After adopting the three little girls in the first film and giving up a life of crime… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season 1, Volume 1
…It’s a neat design if a little bit more girly than I expected. There is also an insert inside the case with a list of the episodes found on the… |
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The Great Mouse Detective Mystery In The Mist Edition: Sleuth (DVD bonus clip)
…animated action when The Great Mouse Detective comes to DVD on April 13, 2010 from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. In the greatest little mystery in Disney history, the renowned… |
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The First Easter Rabbit: Deluxe Edition
…interest for older viewers who might have fun guessing who is providing which voices and find some unintentional humor in little girl Glinda, who sounds as if she’s completely spaced… |
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Apple and Walt Disney Records finally reach agreement on adding Disney catalog to iTunes
…such as \\Alice in Wonderland\\, \\Beauty and the Beast\\, \\The Lion King\\, \\Snow White\\ and \\The Little Mermaid\\; Disney/Pixar’s \\Toy Story\\, \\Toy Story 2\\, \\A Bug’s Life\\, \\Monsters, Inc.\\ and… |
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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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Shark Tale DVD review
…film is enjoyable enough, though the sheer aggressiveness of the very commercially-minded comedy sat a little uneasily. It’s not all bad: the animation is DWs’ usual brand of attention to… |
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The Ballad Of Rango
…excellently touches on these aspects, as well as dedicated looks at the different characters and the creation of specific sequences, but if anything feels a little “missing”, it’s any seeming… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpts: Parts V and VI
…lives watching other humans and we know right away when something, even the smallest little thing, isn’t quite right.” Adds character supervisor Bill Wise: “There’s something about human beings, even… |
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Menken, Mear talk Mermaid musical
After its first preview on Broadway recently, composer Alan Menken talked to with Rotten Tomatoes about the difficulties of bringing Disney’s classic film The Little Mermaid to the theatre. “I… |
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Disney DVD update; Range specs
…Three Little Pigs – could this be one of the three Totally Twisted Fairy-Tale shorts that Disney produced in the 1990s (and were a precursor to the lopsided “Once Upon… |
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Shrek the Musical World Premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre
…releases Mulan II, Lilo and Stitch II, and Little Mermaid III. She has produced sixty CD’s for Silver-Burdett Ginn’s Making Music and the original cast albums for Twelfth Night, Violet,… |
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Russell Schroeder has retrieved Disney’s Lost Chords!
…the U.S., as the demand for Disney comics was greater overseas at that time. I also wrote 2 Disney Little Golden Books, the first being Pluto and the Adventure of… |