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Dinotrux
…awful, and for its target audience of little kids, it should be a harmless distraction. The most appealing thing about Dinotrux is the animation. While the series doesn’t look nearly… |
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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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Top Cat: The Complete Series
…have been a little meatier, but it is a pretty good track. Disc One’s other bonus is Storyboard Showcase, which has the complete original storyboards used to pitch the J.B…. |
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Joe Grant Life Celebration
…segment quipped that he almost chose to wear that same shirt for the evening. Many of the panel members discussed how Joe was always leaving them little sketches and story… |
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Dastardly & Muttley In Their Flying Machines: The Complete Series
…were little more than interstitials (these had the show’s characters, but without the plane/pigeon plot) and “Magnificent Muttley”, which saw the popular snickering canine daydreaming about himself in various heroic… |
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Release dates set for Dumbo, Dinosaurs, and Einsteins
Ultimate Disney indicates that the Dumbo: Special Edition DVD is due for release on June 13th. The site also records that Little Einsteins: Team Up for Adventure!, the sequel to… |
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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…them tied up together. It’s pastiche in its purest form, with a knowing nudge-nudge-wink-wink to the audience that little’uns will find suspenseful and adults will get a kick out of… |
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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…don’t know why it works out that way. Maybe because the staccato feeling of this technique naturally adds a little creepiness that serves monster stories very well. AV: Since horror… |
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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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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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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 2
…on The Huckleberry Hound Show.) The hugely popular Yogi Bear Show also starred Snagglepuss the lion and a little duckling named Yakky Doodle. Yogi’s popularity increased throughout the 1960’s, leading… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #110: Don Bluth & Gary Goldman Interview
…newest episode of the Animation Addicts Podcast! https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV9402124462.mp3 Highlights A little bit about Dragon’s Lair‘s history and cult status. Why they made the jump from Kickstarter to Indiegogo. A little… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete First Season
…by Hanna-Barbera legends Daws Butler and Don Messick. Then there were the Stone Age gags, of course. In The Flintstones, drivers propel cars using their feet, housewives vacuum with little… |
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Frankenweenie: Cinematographer Peter Sorg’s shades of grey
…only a little detail showing in the shadows and then changes to a more dramatic monster style lighting as the kids dig up their dead pets to try and bring… |
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Reviews return, with the final season of The Batman
…at the San Diego Comic-Con. As much as we hoped you would all enjoy reading about our little adventure, I realize that it may seem a wee bit indulgent of… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…himself plundered the depths of Saturday morning matinees and 1930s sci-fi, is a little harsh. Starchaser does serve up a few unique ideas of its own that would be referenced… |
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The Lego Batman Movie
…so serious? OK, the movie can’t be all fun and games. But it’s pretty obvious the filmmakers are having to try a little too hard when it’s time for the… |
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Legacy Animation Studios starts production on Lucky!!
…brings a little good fortune to the people he encounters, but for every bit of good luck, he experiences a bit of misfortune. How ‘lucky’ can a four-leaf clover really… |
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Toy Story Sequels sans Pixar? There's More Here Than Meets the Eye
…left an impressive record for Disney to live up to. This may, however, be speaking a little too soon because the latest news, as reported by The Big Cartoon DataBase,… |
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The Muppet Show: Season Two
…Elton John, Steve Martin, Madeline Khan, Rudolf Nureyev, Bernadette Peters, Rich Little, Dom Deluise… good grief!! That line-up just cannot be beat. And it all pays off, too. This season… |
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume Three
…that the writers had come through pretty well. So, while a part of me resented what they had done to Apache Chief and Fred Flintstone— and especially poor little Boo… |
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The Batman: The Complete Fifth Season
…from awful in the first season, to tolerable, to decent in the end; but I think that the show is a little better than some have given it credit for…. |
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Timon and Pumbaa Are Dead: The Animated News Lion King 1½ Review
…With The Wind, Pete’s Dragon, Julius Cæsar, The Fiddler on the Roof, The Little Rascals, Lady and the Tramp, The Sixth Sense, The Lone Ranger, Casablanca and Apocalypse Now. When… |
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Despicable Me 4
…laughs to be had), by all means go see this one too. But for everyone else, it’s criminal how little there is in Despicable Me 4 to recommend for you…. |
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Inside Inside Out 2 with Pixar Production Designer Jason Deamer
…and a mentor to me for my whole career, willing to help me in the beginning and kinda of mentor me a little bit, even though he was very sick,… |
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Release dates, directors revealed for future DisneyToon movies
…III, The Aristocats II, and The Little Mermaid III. Though little information may currently be found at each of the movie’s pages, nonetheless, tentative release dates and directors are noted…. |
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Disney announces Moana to set sail for Blu-ray combo pack and 3D edition March 7
…error of his ways … with a little help from her friends! • Voice of the Islands – An in-depth look at how Pacific Island people and cultures inspired the… |
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Walt: The Man Behind The Myth
…things were perhaps a little easier (whereas some other things were tougher), as a young director myself he is most certainly a guiding light, and remains an inspiration to us… |
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Penguins rundown
…when the young Private notices that the Polar Bear is all alone with no one to share the holiday. Surrounded by his own “family,” the littlest Penguin is determined that… |
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Turok: Son Of Stone
…of the movie, Turok is bitter and angry, and although he does take steps towards becoming part of a new family, his personality changes little during the course of the… |