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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…impressive feat even more remarkable when one realizes that this was four years away from the development of the computerised CAPS process that would ink and paint Disney’s 1990s pictures…. |
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Stop-motion gets animated in NYC tonight!
…Fantastic Mr. Fox and A Town Called Panic. Unlike it’s shiny and new cousin, computer animation, stop-motion has always had a home-made and somewhat surreal quality to it. Perhaps it… |
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Armageddon
…had also progressed to place these everyday folk in ever-increasingly fantastic situations with more finesse helped as well, of course, and throughout the 1990s, a hit run of action films… |
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Super Friends: Season One, Volume Two
…only to be taken prisoner on Earth by a man who wishes to exploit them. Fantastic FRERPs – The titles keep getting better, but a FRERP is really just an… |
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James And The Giant Peach: Special Edition
…a (very long) loop when selected. A four and a half minute Production Featurette covers only the very basic basics, being what was shown on television movie magazine programs when… |
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Warner Archive: Classic Musical Shorts From The Dream Factory
…possible…not so with this new assortment of theatrical MGM “program filler” shorts – the latest in Warner Bros.’ fantastic made on demand Archive Collection titles – which I began last… |
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Danger Man / Secret Agent: The Complete Collection
…have been fantastic to have maybe bunched up the previous disc with four episodes, leaving space on the final disc for the final two color episodes and their feature-length version,… |
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The Secret Of Kells: Special Edition
…forest outside of the wall, where fantastic sights – and dangers – await… The Sweatbox Review: This year’s crop of Oscar hopefuls for the Best Animated Feature award was an… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 1 and 2
…toons”, they certainly are “like you’ve never seen them before”, both in their newly mixed editions and the fantastic original length restorations. Ink And Paint: If I haven’t gushed profusely… |
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He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special
…other hand, is rooted into some of our most basic traditions and beliefs. By mixing the two, Christmas always ends up bringing the more fantastic elements of a story into… |
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Tales from Earthsea DVD in March
…Marin and Mariska Hargitay. Extras on this release will include “The World of Ghibli”, “Behind the Studio: Discover the film’s fantastic origins”, “Enter the Lands” and “Studio Ghibli Trivia Challenge.”… |
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A Christmas Carol
…half of the overall four minute runtime, which itself includes a minute and a half of logos. The standard definition DVD (the same one as being sold separately) naturally includes… |
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Sherlock: Season One
…be said, that much of a Sherlock Holmes connoisseur, my experience with the original books being pretty much relegated to reading The Sign Of The Four and The Hound Of… |
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Warner Archive: The Green Slime
…can put up with my terrible acronym for Fantastic, Unintentionally-hilarious Nonsense! With the success of the Americanization of Godzilla in the 1950s, Japan fairly quickly became the home of the… |
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Disneynature: Oceans / The Crimson Wing: Mystery Of The Flamingos
…at Brosnan’s dry narration, Oceans looks fantastic, the result of a four year shoot that went back time and time again to gain the perfect shots. Presented in 2.40:1 on… |
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Picks Of The Year 2004
…comes with a whole second disc of extras! As if that wasn’t enough, we are finally able to enjoy Irwin Kostal’s complete music score alongside Richard And Robert Sherman’s fantastic… |
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Young Justice
…fantastic if one of Wonder Woman’s sidekicks had been added to the team. Donna Troy and Cassandra Sandsmark were both Wonder Girl at some point in the comics and members… |
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Bambi: Diamond Edition
…executed option, and as before seemed to me to be much preferable than an audio-only track composed of archive (and often hard to make out) interviews. A fantastic substitute for… |
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All*Star Superman
…was to provide the readership with a run of fantastic Superman stories for the ages. He certainly succeeded. For the film, McDuffie did a fine job at capturing what Morrison… |
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Tangled
…and absolutely superlative character animation that indeed stretches CG like never before. Added to this is Greno and Howard’s direction, which fantastically keeps things moving and felt, to me, to… |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…mildly menacing while attempting a malicious half-smile/grin, and after the first three or four times it just starts to get either boring, or unintentionally funny. It wouldn’t have been so… |
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Winnie The Pooh‘s Henry Jackman, a “First Class” composer
…the original string line up. It was a surprisingly small section, two double basses, four celli, four violas, six violins or so. But I didn’t want to spend too much… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 3 and 4
…Volume Four’s cartoon selection kicks off with an all-time great, since I’ve seen the rather uneventful Mickey Down Under, from later in Mr Mouse’s initial screen career, so many times… |
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Cars 2’s Victor Navone takes the wheel!
…directed a Cars-based commercial for State Farm Auto Insurance, and then in 2008 I co-directed four Cars Toons for theatrical and television release. Needless to say, after all this I… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…ever imagined that it would have become such a classic Disney film? RM: When we started working on The Lion King we were fourth in a succession of modern Disney… |
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Bambi II: Special Edition
…card. More importantly is that Bambi II marks the return of Bruce Broughton to the Studio after his fantastic work on the theatrical sequel The Rescuers Down Under and the… |
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Mad: Season One, Part One
…bread”, “If it’s a TV set, how come you only get one?”) and various swipes at Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Megan Fox, particularly in the excellently realized Fantastic Megan… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Limited 3D Edition
…in danger of sinking their very profitable ship. Certainly trilogy director Gore Verbinski was tired: although he and Depp would go on to collaborate on the fantastic animated feature Rango,… |
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Winnie The Pooh
…Henry Jackman’s musical score, the influence of the Pooh Theme is highly evident in a cute four-note motif that’s basically an inverted version of the original theme (even if the… |
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Director Gore Verbinski wrangles up Rango!
…Verbinski won four Clio Awards and one Cannes Advertising Silver Lion. In 1996, Verbinski directed the stylish half-hour short film The Ritual, which garnered enough acclaim to catch the attention… |
