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Win Peter Pan, plus more archive reviews and site updates
…rodents of Flushed Away last night and have to admit it’s a very fun little movie – more on that later this week. Now…the promised site updates. We’re working our… |
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ParaNorman: an art in the making, with filmmakers Chris Butler and Sam Fell
…He was head of story on Coraline and is the writer and director of ParaNorman. Sam Fell wrote and directed Dreamwork’s Flushed Away and Universal’s The Tale of Despereaux before… |
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Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!
…continued as a story artist for films such as Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002), Shrek 2 (2004), Madagascar (2005) and Flushed Away (2006). In 2007, Wells received an intriguing… |
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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…their comic and teamed with their publisher’s motion picture arm, Dargaud Films, to set up an “in house” facility, named Studio Idefix, to carry out production themselves. The first Asterix… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…the documentaries, plus many more. Sections covered include Visual Development, Character Design, Layouts & Backgrounds, Storyboard Art, Production Pictures, Research Pictures, and Publicity. Although some of the other sub-sections from… |
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The Tigger Movie: Bounce-a-rrrific Special Edition
…strayed away from the “black marker” approach that much of Disney’s television animation took on at the time, even if it still failed to capture the illustrated line drawing style… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…did not count Toy Story 2 as one of the pictures in the five-picture deal, since the agreement encompassed only original features, not sequels. From that point, tensions grew between… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two
Walt Disney Pictures (1939–1995), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (May 18 2004), 2 disc set, 345 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio and 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital Mono… |
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Lilo & Stitch: A Little More Conversation with directors Chris Sanders & Dean De Blois!
…locking herself in the house and playing Elvis music. Most of the songs were picked for some kind of a comic juxtaposition theme to what was going on in the… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume One
Warner Bros. Pictures (1940–1959), Warner Home Video (October 28 2003), 4 disc set, 411 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $65 Storyboard:… |
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Cars 2
…direction away from his usual “frat pack” routine. I also somewhat enjoyed director John Lasseter’s take on the frenetic camerawork of TV spots coverage, juxtaposed by the sheer epic scale… |
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Cinderella: Diamond Edition
…been great to have had a picture-in-picture track throughout the movie (see the What’s Missing? comments below), but as something of a token gesture in this regard, a Storyboard To… |
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The pirate movie that's no crime…
…End it is the over talky nature and convoluted plot involving the gathering of the Pirate Lords to stand up against the corrupt East India Company that ultimately takes away… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions
…since the configuration is completely confusing, as surely the picture-in-picture aspects could be switched off to let the movie play as it does on the first disc anyway? With the… |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…intact. That was also the intention when Warners picked up the baton for the DVD Spotlight Collections, although the mixed-up assortment of cartoon offerings and the emergence that there were… |
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
…fan of how quick (in one shot!) the animals made it away from Africa to Monte Carlo: if it was just a “hop, skip and a swim away” then why… |
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Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles
…welcome, but shone the light away even further from his past associates. Clampett, Avery, Freleng, Frank Tashlin, even the much underrated Bob McKimson – they may not have all been… |
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A look at Oscar's Animated Short Films
With the Oscars only days away, Animated News brings together reports from around the web to give you a closer look at the five films nominated for Best Animated Short…. |
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Shrek The Third
…throne and, in order to slip away from his responsibilities, heads off with Donkey, Puss In Boots et al to find another heir. Quite what Fiona thinks about all this… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Platinum Edition
…away deep into the forest where she finds the home of the Seven Dwarfs. The Mirror betrays the Huntsman, so the Queen devises a wicked plan and disguises herself as… |
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The Reef
…much more watchable than the excruciating Happily N’Ever After, to pick a similarly independent outing. Despite its plum-pickings, the story itself floats away every now and then, leaving the film… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation/Imageworks (September 29 2006), Sony Home Entertainment (January 30 1007), single disc, 86 mins plus supplements including limited-time Amazon-exclusive bonus DVD of The ChubbChubbs, 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen,… |
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The Incredible Mr Limpet
…Henry Limpet, a mild-mannered bookkeeper from Brooklyn. Limpet has an affinity for fish and undersea life and wishes he could join them to get away from his troubles on dry… |
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Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition
Walt Disney Pictures (November 18 1988), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (February 3 2009), single disc, 74 mins plus supplements, 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated G, Retail: $29.99… |
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Osmosis Jones
…style, as there are no give-away signs during the film that any trickery like this is going on and if you didn’t know, the uninitiated wouldn’t guess. The whole film… |
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Wallace & Gromit’s World Of Invention
…and yet the tomfoolery they would sure to be tangled up in would provide an entertaining cushion to take away from the fact that we were, in fact, “learning”. Although… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…eagle that Cody has befriended and who has fallen under the greedy sights of McLeach… The Sweatbox Review: The Rescuers, as with so many of the “middle-Disney” pictures that came… |
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The Secret World Of Arrietty
…the drop of a hat. It’s a wonder that Arrietty hasn’t run away from home to get away from her mother’s histrionics. Then there is Haru, the villain of the… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume One
Walt Disney Pictures (1930-1947), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (December 7 2004), 2 disc set, 266 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $32.99… |
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Finding Nemo: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures (May 30 2003), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (November 4 2003), 2 discs, 100 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 EX Surround, Rated… |
