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Of Paramount importance: a pair of live-action reviews!
…and informative, revealing many facts about the production, alternate scenes and the character’s relationships. More, perhaps, of an audio essay, but never drawn out or obvious. The menus for this… |
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Christmas Contest: win The Little Mermaid II Special Edition – Winner!
…Peeks including The Princess And The Frog (2009). The Little Mermaid II is available to buy from Amazon.com THE SMALL PRINT: Winning names will be drawn at random. Participants must… |
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Oscars, LaserDiscs, Lost Chords, and Wild animals!
…his new projects together. Enjoy! With the final announcement that Pioneer are to conclude producing new LaserDisc players in Japan, the format is officially dead, sparking off this topic in… |
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Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter & The Wolf (2006)
…as much drawn in by the music as the visuals as I was, and being accurately concerned for the characters, including the Wolf. That this Peter & The Wolf, despite… |
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Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
…but there are also the many intricate layers that announce Pinocchio as nothing short of a one off: importantly the most technically and creatively accomplished hand-drawn, non-computer assisted full-length animated… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 2
…as the Bond-ian mad scientist of the title, while there are plenty of allusions to the obvious references. Two Against Freak features some terrific hand-drawn perspective animation in a spoof… |
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Snow White BD and signed Marge Champion photos – Winners Announced!
…from Amazon.com THE SMALL PRINT: Winning names will be drawn at random. Participants must provide a full name, mailing address and valid email contact. This information will be kept confidential… |
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Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!
…with. While epic dramas had always drawn huge crowds, one of the most popular genres around this time was the glossy comedy caper, mostly chase films with an absolutely packed… |
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Sunset Boulevard: Centennial Collection
…audio essay, but never drawn out or obvious. The menus for this two-disc affair differ from the private screening room approach from before, a minimal gold and black presentation that… |
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The Day The Earth Stood Still: Blu-ray Disc Special Edition
…very different creature to Robert Wise’s seminal sci-fi original. Back in the 1950s, the emphasis was drawn between the alien visitors and paranoia from potential international threats, while this time… |
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Snow White: Marge Champion, a Model Princess!
…the name “Marjorie Bell”, and became a legend in Hollywood with Gower Champion, whom she married in 1947. They went on to appear together in hit musical films including Show… |
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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure‘s director and producer take us to a Once-in-a-Blue-Moon experience!
…storyboards drawn with a stylist in the computer (they resemble pencil drawings). We then construct those characters, environments and props as models in a 3D digital environment. Even though the… |
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Superman, Batman…and Tink!
…Conroy, making the disc “worth picking up just for this feature”. Moving on from the graphic, hand-drawn style of those superheroes to a soft surface, smooth and fluid CGI style… |
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Mega Christmas Contest DVD Bundle – Winner Announced!
…PRINT: Winning names will be drawn at random. Participants must provide a full name, mailing address and valid email contact. This information will be kept confidential and deleted after the… |
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Princess brings Disney and directors full circle
…return of traditional animation to Disney, and how it was brought about by some directors they let go and the company some blamed for the demise of hand drawn films…. |
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Animation impact on 2010 Oscars
…studios in the game this year, and whether any of this might be seen as a referendum on styles and formats (CG vs hand drawn vs motion capture vs 3D)…. |
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Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure Nintendo DS game – Winners Announced!
…Lost Treasure Blu-ray disc here! Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure for Nintendo DS is available to buy from Amazon.com THE SMALL PRINT: Winning names will be drawn at random…. |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…one considers the film was put together in not much more than a year, the technicalities of what were achieved are all the more impressive, and if nothing else the… |
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Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure
…get too excited. It’s a lightly animated travelogue of the fairy world, narrated by Tinker Bell and Terrence. The hand-drawn scenes are enhanced with CGI effects, making for a pretty… |
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New Princess and the Frog images
A number of new images and cast photos from Disney’s anticipated The Princess and the Frog can now be found at Comingsoon.net. The studio’s return to hand-drawn animation opens in… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…as the final reel creeps in, with various story strands coming together, a twist or two, and certainly a character’s self-realisation, all leading to an exhilarating thrill ride of an… |
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Up
…together in an honest and truly brilliantly beautiful fashion. It’s a sequence which has led the film’s critical praises and provides an emotional heart beat that keeps going throughout, even… |
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Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas Prize Pack – Winner Announced!
…PRINT: Winning names will be drawn at random. Participants must provide a full name, mailing address and valid email contact. This information will be kept confidential and deleted after the… |
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A Christmas Carol
…was almost – and found myself wanting to be – drawn in, frustrating details kept appearing to me, even though I wasn’t looking for them and didn’t want to be… |
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More good words for Princess
As reviews start to pour in, The Hollywood Reporter describes The Princess And The Frog as “Disney brilliantly rediscovering hand-drawn animation and the value of story. The best Disney animated… |
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The first and fairest meets the latest for Thanksgiving!
…the storming of the Magic Kingdom by new animation topper John Lasseter, Disney finally returns to the hand-drawn medium that just somehow feels more warm and human-made than impressively rendered,… |
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The Princess And The Frog: Almost There (feature film song clip)
…adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana. From the creators of The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, The Princess And The Frog marks the return to hand-drawn animation from the revered… |
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The Princess And The Frog: A Return To The Animated Musical (featurette)
…adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana. From the creators of The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, The Princess And The Frog marks the return to hand-drawn animation from the revered… |
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Plastic Man: The Complete Collection
…combined the strengths of Ruby-Spears’ action animation together with their knack for good comedy writing came in a 1979-81 series whose title literally gives away the intention: The Plastic Man… |
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Disney’s Snow Queen back in production?
The Snow Queen, an animated feature from Disney that appeared to fall into production limbo years ago, is apparently back in the works…and in hand-drawn animation, too! Based on a… |
