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2021 Quick Review Recaps
2021 was another weird year on planet Earth! But I don’t need to tell you! Unfortunately for me that meant taking a bit of a break from reviewing movies here… |
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Director Mike Rianda on The Mitchells vs. The Machines
…the robot uprising! Everything from smart phones, to Roombas, to evil Furbys are employed to capture every human on the planet. Now it’s up to the Mitchells, including upbeat mom… |
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Star Wars: Visions
…the stage for how different from the rest of Star Wars the series would be. It is set in an alternate timeline that borrows more heavily from samurai and Japanese… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…were taking influences from the orchestration of things and also the mood of that stuff. We never directly lifted thematic material from that. It was more just to inform me… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…contemporary art, science, literature. I tend to get inspiration from the real world, and extrapolate from that. For example: towards the end of the movie, our heroes arrive to The… |
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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…and King Louie (The Jungle Book), Tarzan, Rapunzel and Flynn Rider, not forgetting Merida (from Brave), will appear on stage to give a live performance of the legendary songs from… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…got this sound, with his button accordion, which is very different from the keyboard accordion, very different from the Mexican, or French or even Italian accordion. Every country has its… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…manuscripts? What did you learn from them? JB: When I set out to work on this book, I accepted the fact that I may get zero cooperation from the Disney… |
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The Care Bears Movie
…friends from the Forest of Feelings, the Care Bears will return to Earth to bring back caring and save Nicholas from the evil spirit who is making a new more… |
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Arcane
League of Legends is one of the most popular video games of this generation. For over a decade, an estimated 22 million people from across 145 countries can be found… |
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Elio
…from outer space to take him. Mistaken as the leader of earth thanks to a miscommunication, Elio is ecstatic when he is in fact abducted, only to find that he… |
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Pixar production designer Don Shank in his element with Elemental
…City, where Fire-, Water-, Earth– and Air-residents live together, Elemental introduces Ember – a tough, quick-witted, and fiery young woman – whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named… |
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Comic-Con@Home Coverage
…Animated Views crew. They range from insightful retrospectives to first-look previews of what’s to come, and from informative seminars to fandom celebrations. They are available to view at any time…. |
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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…show. Lots of parodies are in this one, ranging from Star Wars to Veggie Tales. Even a terminator from the future comes back to eliminate Wooldoor to prevent the world… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…score has so much instrumentation from around the world. Pretty much every season, I buy a new instrument from around the world for the show. In my studio, there are… |
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Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving – 10th Anniversary Edition
…storybook pages and old clips from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh show as well as animation from the original cartoons. These songs were written by the Sherman Brothers… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 1
…Part), Master Mold (Final Decision), and The Shadow King (Whatever It Takes). Almost all of the storylines from these first few episodes were taken from classic comic book storylines. The… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…AV: From your perspective, what are the most important discoveries you made? DG: From a historical standpoint, the most important discovery was being able to prove once and for all… |
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The Legend of Vox Machina
…115 episodes. This provides hundreds of hours of content from which to use in adapting the stories told into a thirty-minute episodic series, not counting the hundreds more from the… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…Tsutsumi, originally from Japan, is a filmmaker, painter, and philanthropist. A graduate from The School of Visual Arts in New York, Dice has worked as a visual development/color key artist… |
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Go planet! Sony negotiates for Captain Planet film rights
…Planet and the Planeteers with the intention to release a feature film adaptation produced by Mark Gordon, Don Murphy and Susan Montford.” There have been talks about an animated movie… |
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Invader Zim: House Box Complete Set
…Dib doesn’t have to try hard to stop Zim due to Zim’s incompetence. In fact, Zim’s major challenges on Earth, don’t even come from Dib, but from scary Chihuahuas, mall… |
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The Day The Prince And The Pauper Stood Still!
…the rest to come up with a totally new take on those ingredients. The Day The Earth Stood Still: Blu-ray Disc Special Edition is available to purchase from Amazon.com now… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…risks. A visionary, Walt tackled this challenge by creating a wholly unique Character Model Department. This short-lived new department became Walt’s “think tank.” From experimenting with facial expressions and 3-D… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…the Opéra Bastille. The aim of this digital 3rd Stage is to commission new works from artists through original pieces offering an original perspective on the world of opera, music,… |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…Keeper is really a product of many things we love from our childhood and our development as artists, from children’s book artists like Richard Scarry, to cinematographer Conrad Hall, as… |
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Marvel news from Disney Investor Day 2020
…Weisz. In theaters May 7, 2021. — Disney (@Disney) December 11, 2020 “Glorious.” Loki, an Original Series from Marvel Studios, is coming May 2021 to #DisneyPlus. @lokiofficial pic.twitter.com/gqT7AKur2y — Marvel… |
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WALL-E: 3-Disc Special Edition
…G, Retail: $39.99 Storyboard: When Earth becomes too toxic for humankind, the planet is evacuated in favor of a huge space cruiser, where the population of the world (or rather,… |
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Watch a first look at The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
The first footage from The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie has been released, and you can check it out in the player above. Although the plot… |
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Inside Job
…The stock market is manipulated through blood sacrifices. The JFK assassination? Done to keep his mishap with an alien at Roswell from breeding out of hand. The Minions from Despicable… |
