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Santa Inc.
…So what went wrong? Let it be known from the start that Santa Inc. is strictly for adults, and the show tells you this almost immediately. Within five minutes of… |
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Get groovy with the full Minions: The Rise of Gru trailer
…this July. This summer, from the biggest global animated franchise in history, comes the origin story of how the world’s greatest supervillain first met his iconic Minions, forged cinema’s most… |
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Popeye The Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons
…began just a few short years after Popeye first appeared in the Thimble Theatre newspaper comic strip. The subsequent color shorts from Famous Studios (essentially what became of the Fleischer… |
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Nimona‘s production designer Aidan Sugano: creating a future medieval world
…Book illustration look that defined that era. PI: You managed a very successful synthesis of 2D and 3D. AS: We took their tenets from that 2D world, and had to… |
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Twenty Years of AV
…answer twenty questions ranging from our site resume to our favorite movies. A downside to being able to celebrate another milestone like this one is that we’ve kinda said all… |
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The Marvels has lowest MCU opening ever
Not even Goose the cat could save The Marvels from scoring the lowest opening weekend in the history of the MCU, Box Office Mojo is reporting. Although on paper a… |
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Deaf Crocodile announces Treasures of Soviet Animation Volume 3: The Short Films of Yuri Norstein
…included the long-awaited official release of the 1957 classic The Snow Queen.) From Deaf Crocodile’s Facebook post: Our third volume of classic & rare Soviet animated gems from the vaults… |
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
…sent to various planets across the galaxy. Peach goes to a space casino searching for information. Bowser gets sentenced to hard labor in a space bee colony. Fox McCloud shows… |
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No one likes Tom & Jerry’s new movie Forbidden Compass
…Compass represents the first time they have released a “franchise” to US theaters, which has given it a bit more attention from the press. Unfortunately, that coverage has largely been… |
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John Lasseter to direct Cosmic Motors, his first film since 2011
…from various planets of the Galaxion system are shown, entirely made up from Daniel’s imagination. Each chapter shows the design process of each vehicle, from the first ideation sketches to… |
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Perils of Penelope Pitstop: The Complete Series
…came from its attempt to recreate the adventure of a Saturday matinee serial, as Penelope had to escape from one deathtrap after another. The deathtraps were typically overdone affairs, that… |
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The Plague Dogs: (1983 US Edited Edition)
…with the earlier Watership Down, on a Richard Adams novel, The Plague Dogs follows two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, as they make a break for liberty when they escape the… |
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Watershipped Rabbits And Plagued Dogs: The Animated World Of Richard Adams
…so at least the image doesn’t suffer from any extra digital anomalies, but it’s clear from the outset that the print is a viewing copy that has been often used…. |
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Heidi’s Song
…Heidi’s Song: the poster seemed to be everywhere…but the movie itself was much more frustrating to find! Originally released by Paramount Pictures, Heidi’s Song quickly disappeared from view, seemingly from… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Dr Syn, Alias The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh
…a brilliantly formidable foil for Peter Falk’s Columbo and villainous feature parts including Ice Station Zebra, Silver Streak, Escape From Alcatraz, Scanners and Braveheart. He returned to Disney in the… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 3
…Adaptations from other media truly prospered in the 1970’s, from Super Friends, to The Addams Family (both 1973) and The Partridge Family 2200 A.D. (1974). Live action sitcom I Dream… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…McGoohan was able to dictate the rules. Running from 1964 until 1967 and, stealing a page from Walt’s handbook to put out a two-part adventure as a feature spin-off, Koroshi… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part One – Ogres Are Like Onions!
…great A Bug’s Life, and one I don’t think it can ever escape from. With production on both films running at the same time and at the same pace, accusations… |
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The Last Unicorn: 25th Anniversary Edition
…story of how the unicorns were driven off by a Red Bull that pushed them to the ends of the Earth, never to be seen again. Having heard this, the… |
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Castle In The Sky
…a girl who has mysteriously fallen from the sky. Together, they lead pursuers on an exciting chase as they begin a journey in which they will discover the girl’s true… |
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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…day, too (the cumbersomely and nonsensically titled Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa). Disney bounced back with Bolt, the first of the new Mouse House films to really feel the hand of… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 2
…allowing Gilligan and company to escape their island, only to wind up stranded on another planet altogether. Dawn Wells joined the rest of the original cast this time, and she… |
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Bravestarr: Volume One
…the help of some friends, ensures that the law is upheld on the frontier planet of New Texas. The Sweatbox Review: I was sufficiently intrigued with BCI’s initial Bravestarr set,… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Two-Disc Special Edition)
…to sign a treaty with the Hutt Clan, decides that Anakin and Obi-Wan would be the perfect Jedi for this new mission. Meanwhile, on the embattled planet of Christophsis, we… |
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Danger Man / Secret Agent: The Complete Collection
…Peter Falk’s Columbo in the 1970s, which McGoohan also directed. Villainous feature parts also included Silver Streak, the brutal prison warden in Escape From Alcatraz, and Braveheart, before he returned… |
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AV Readers’ Best of the Decade List: 2001-2010
…in my email box waiting to be tabulated. Thanks to a reminder from a forum reader who has apparently been patiently waiting for the results all this time, Animated Views… |
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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…video from “popping” like some other animated productions, but aside from that, this movie looks perfect. Compression problems are nil, and the two decade-old source material is surprisingly pristine. Scratch… |
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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…I have read. Regardless, the story in the film version differs significantly from the published one. It also only covers the early instalments of the manga, similar to Otomo’s Akira…. |
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Despite Planetary Downgrade, Pluto Is Still Disney's 'Dog Star'
BURBANK, CALIF – In reaction to news today that Pluto was demoted to the status of “dwarf planet,” the Seven Dwarfs issued their own short statement: “Although we think it’s… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…for a cheap knock-off from one of my favorite features. And then, the movie began… From the opening Disney logo, I was enchanted. Tinkerbell’s glow has been added to the… |
