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Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!
…of course, but when color started creeping in, the way the movies combated it was to present epic stories the likes of which television budgets and technology just couldn’t compete… |
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Brother Bear: 2-Movie Collection
…crash to come when they later found out this was to be their final outing. Looking back on it today, Brother Bear feels steeped more in the “serious, epic art”… |
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Brave
Pixar films (and really just about every recent animated film in the past decade or two) have always been spectacular in scope, and epic in the journeys they take their… |
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From Snow Queen to Pinocchio II: Robert Reece’s animated adventures in screenwriting
…but definitely more sweet than bitter,” says Reece. “It was sweeping and epic in some ways, but the characters made it very personal and human.” Mike Gabriel’s character sketches of… |
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Batman – The Dark Knight Returns: Parts 1 And 2
…Batman is prepared for anything. This is an epic that goes beyond the high stakes involved. It’s easy to see, even now, how this story made such an impact years… |
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Elmer Bernstein dies at 82
…scores for several early computer animation documentaries and his still officially unavailable, and much requested, music for Disney’s 1985 fantasy epic The Black Cauldron. More about Elmer Berstein’s credits and… |
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Pinocchio: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…first released (interestingly within in the same timeframe, or near enough, to Walt’s epic), but a film so staggeringly groundbreaking and ahead of its time that it took a good… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…epic vision to life. Matthias was born in 1970 in Mannheim, Germany. He spent his youth in an idyllic south-German setting. In 1990, he moved to Hamburg to find his… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…Logan’s Run, The Black Hole, Tron, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom and Blade Runner), the animated sci-fi epic on the block was Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin, which… |
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Snow White And The Seven Kung Fu Monks: Disney sets movie sights on China
…hit her – Snow White is about to be transformed into a martial arts epic with Shaolin monks replacing the seven dwarves of the original Grimm Brothers fairytale. In a… |
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Home On The Range
…animation game in the 1980s and 90s, trying to find a “please all” solution. News continues to filter through that several big epic productions were turned around and switched into… |
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Home On The Range
…re-writes) on the boards as a widescreen epic named Sweating Bullets, originally about a young bull’s adventures in an old western ghost town. If this sounds a little more sombre… |
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Brother Bear: Special Edition
…back down to Earth with a great big thud. The film is more steeped in the “serious, epic art” phase of mid-90s Disney rather than the fresh knockabout feel of… |
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The Black Cauldron: 25th Anniversary Edition
…traditionally animated films. Though it deals with epic themes and truly nasty characters, when Disney has made mention of this film (it’s number 25 on their list) over the years,… |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…some posters where the film was titled Tron: An Electronic Odyssey (another substituted The Electronic Gladiator…you get the idea). It’s an apt comparison since, just as with Kubrick’s space epic,… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…and the similar treatment for Green Lantern a few months later. Perhaps the biggest superhero event of the year was the release of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen, the epic screen translation… |
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Poster for The Croods: A New Age confirms Thanksgiving release date
…family and the modern family. Just when all seems lost, a new threat will propel both families on an epic adventure outside the safety of the wall, one that will… |
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More X-Men, plus A Bug's Life is back!
…with this release and I can hardly wait for the third volume”. Remember the “Bug Wars” of 1998? When Pixar had their “epic of miniature proportions” ready to roll in… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…celebrated 1968 epic, or even the New York-set musical drama of West Side Story) have been saved for posterity if you’re searching for an authentic retelling, but Gnomeo & Juliet… |
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The New Adventures Of Superman: DC Classics
…TV series) providing some epic situations that Kal-El can really get stuck into with a cry of “Up, up, and away!” His super powers could actually be shown on television,… |
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The Return Of 2015: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…hands with the release of The Beatles: 1 collection. Off the screen, JB Kaufman’s Pinocchio: The Making Of The Disney Epic followed up wonderfully on his Snow White book from… |
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Tom & Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection
…cast all dressed up in Musketeer outfits for an epic banquet battle! The following year, Johann Mouse was another piano-playing Academy Award winner – T&J’s seventh and final – and… |
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The Jungle Book arriving on Blu-ray August 30th
…BURBANK, Calif., July 7 2016. Audiences were mesmerized by Disney’s live-action epic adventure The Jungle Book, which has earned more than $911 million at the global box office to date…. |
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Laika announces new feature Kubo and the Two Strings
…In the epic fantasy, scruffy, kindhearted Kubo ekes out a humble living while devotedly caring for his mother in their sleepy shoreside village. It is a quiet existence – until… |
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Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows giveaway contest
…of Bionicle®, and the Toa will face their greatest challenges yet in an all-new, CGI-animated epic. With one final duty to fulfill before they can build their new home on… |
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A Conversation With Andreas Deja
…know, but look how you get sucked into the story, this big, epic story. So that was kind of a nice feeling . . . that it turned out in… |
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Tombstone
…be two new biopics based on the Wyatt Earp legend, by then a myth itself: Kevin Costner would direct the epic Wyatt Earp, while an all-star cast would form for… |
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The Lord Of The Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…earlier works. Certainly there were clear touches of Bakshi’s trademarks in the film: scantily clad women and falling back on rotoscoping for the more epic scenes do reveal a shortcoming… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…terms of superhero blockbusters, but the best of the batch wasn’t a Marvel release as has become the norm, but Alita: Battle Angel [below], a jaw-dropping action epic with some… |
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Robotech: Complete Original Series
…of the original series. Each Robotech war preserves most of the original Japanese plotlines with small edits and rewrites to make them one cohesive epic. With similar character and mecha… |
