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Weekend Update: Tom & Jerry's Tales, plus Casper winners!
A real quick one to take us into the weekend, with a brief note to point out two new review additions, for the two volumes of cartoons from the Tom… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
…only allows for a selected number to be previewed in part, so with several new cartoons – not to mention two new home video formats – having made their debuts… |
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Looney gold; Beetle Bailey reviewed!
…begin to slide into very good, but not all time great shorts. There are still a few truly great cartoons no doubt being held back for future releases, but with… |
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Warner's Academy Award Collection is here, and we have two to give away!
…more than several cartoons making their disc debuts include Chuck Jones’ classic The Dot And The Line and High Note, Tex Avery’s Little Johnny Jet, and both versions of Peace… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 1
…include more and more characters and one shot cartoons, but could only do so to a certain degree, somewhat hindered by its established stable of characters, meaning it was obvious… |
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Blow me down! Popeye Volume 2 reviewed, plus Shrek The Halls details!
…Volume 2 1938-1940, the second collection of bona-fide classic black and white Max and Dave Fleischer animated cartoons. These Popeyes are the real deal, as you all know, and it’s… |
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Dr Syn, Donald and Annette…it's the Walt Disney Treasures reviewed!
…the selection is the educational featurette Donald In Mathmagic Land from 1955, and a group of widescreen cartoons presented in their original CinemaScope format, which Rodney calls “a treat” in… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…kept something of a hand in theatrical shorts during the early 1960s with their now sadly forgotten Loopy De Loop cartoons, but it was the huge popularity of The Flintstones… |
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Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
…educationally entertaining animated shorts seen in theaters and on The Mickey Mouse Club. Since the supplements for this release were announced, my big question has been: where are these cartoons?… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 2
…over again, and often at sci-fi and geek targets as opposed to the Looney Tunes feel of the earlier cartoons. But with great hilarity comes great responsibility and if Freakazoid!’s… |
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Shawn Patterson: Composer Maximum!
…Selick, Tom McGrath and many others. Shawn is consistently in demand for his unique and powerful scores in episodic animated television, such as Oh Yeah Cartoons, The X’s, Dave the… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!
…and the Seven Dwarfs combines all the innovations developed with the previous cartoons, and particularly the Silly Symphonies. For example, the Multiplane Camera, used in the With a Smile and… |
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The Astonishing Work Of Tezuka Osamu
…sensibilities. Broken Down Film (1985, 5:42) – This one begins as a cute riff on old-style cartoons, with the appearance of an old black and white cowboy animation. Similar to… |
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Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving – 10th Anniversary Edition
…together with songs written by the Sherman Brothers (who wrote the music for the original Winnie the Pooh cartoons). It includes the popular A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving special from… |
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Fantasia 2000
…Hirschfeld. Hirschfeld’s drawings, combined with Gershwin’s music is reminiscent the style of UPA cartoons of the 50s. There are several stories in the sequence including those of a man who… |
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Justice League: The Complete Series
…five year run on the Cartoon Network across 14 discs. The Sweatbox Review: The cartoons from the DC animated universe have become something of a cartoon staple for Warner Bros…. |
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Inside The Box: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs DVD and Blu-ray Disc Comparisons
…Trip Through Walt Disney Studios and the general release of this short How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made. As a courtesy, we include the Amazon link to this standard DVD… |
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Pretty as a picture: Chuck Jones retrospective
…his retrospective held at the Capitol Children’s Museum, Washington, D.C. in 1988. The opening night festivities will also include a Chuck Jones Cartoons and Short Films Screening beginning at 7:30pm… |
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Turning up for Tooning In!
…Tom And Jerry, The Strangest Cartoons Ever Made, Van Beuren’s Toddle Tales & Rainbow Parades Cartoons and Cartoon Commercials!), and Rodney has been busy grappling with the invincible Iron Man:… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…of Animation, he developed a thorough understanding of the animation process. His fascination with comics, cartoons and Mad Magazine further stimulated his desire to draw. At Loyola Academy, a Jesuit… |
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The Lord Of The Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…1950s and 60s career was full of interesting choices and promise: stints on such comic book cartoons as Deputy Dawg, The Mighty Heroes, Sub-Mariner, The Mighty Thor, Hulk, Captain America… |
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Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes
…is from Red, a singer (the character is recognizable from the Droopy cartoons) who is being blackmailed into dropping off a payment every night after the show to keep her… |
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Secret Origin: The Story Of DC Comics
…I think I’d been aware of the character before, most probably from the Super Friends cartoons of the 1970s, but it was Donner’s film – still the world’s finest comic… |
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Legends Of The Superheroes
…Hanna-Barbera, back in the days when they were making cool-for-kids (but really kind of lousy) Super Friends cartoons. I don’t know how on earth this live action version came to… |
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2003: ’Tis The Season To Buy Presents!
…new “web-toons” discs and the Premiere set – go for gold and get the full experience. Great cartoons, nice new prints, wonderful extras – what more could a fan wish… |
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Yogi Bear’s All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper
…to surprise him. The festive gang includes Huckleberry Hound, Hokey Wolf, Snooper and Blabbermouse, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, and Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy. When they arrive, they find a… |
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Superman flies to deluxe Blu-ray set
…of interest to animation fans will be the inclusion of the Fleischer/Famous Studios cartoons, as well as the 1951 George Reeves feature Superman And The Mole Men, plus several previously… |
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Care Bears Gets Reanimated Again
…Greetings is catching onto the popularity and revenue old eighties cartoons can generate if they are reinvented. Care Bears is the next cartoon on the reboot list with a possibility… |
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Justice League: Doom
…others discuss the upcoming movie, based on Action Comics #775. The movie is due for release in Summer 2012. Bonus Cartoons, as chosen by Bruce Timm, are comprised of the… |
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UPA’s continuing influence on animation
…include Genndy Tartakovsky, Pixar’s Ralph Eggleston, and Disney’s Mike Giaimo. If you’re in the area, on Friday, March 30th LACMA will host “Madcap Modernism: Mid-Century Cartoons from UPA and Beyond”… |
