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Ben’s baaaa-aaaack!
…The computer has taken longer than anticipated to be built and configuration of programs a little trickier than anticipated, but everything’s pretty much in place and the rush of intended… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Mike Cachuela on storyboarding Christmas
…plan was to work on Nightmare a little while and then go on to Pixar because they had told me that they were starting their first feature film and were… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…to tribute parodies in Gravity Falls and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Even celebrities publicly expressed their love with Joe Manganiello regularly hosting sessions that included Vince Vaughn, Game… |
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Tom and Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 3
…goes on for a little longer. Tom and Jerry are trying to go to sleep, but they keep waking each other up in a non-sleep war. What surprised me about… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…Little and Dora And The Lost City of Gold. To prepare the score of Encanto, Germaine fully immersed herself in Colombian music, culture, and literature. Her music is a love… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…were you approached by the crew? Paul Abadilla: A little bit of both. Initially, when I had first heard of the project, I really wanted to be a part of… |
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Private Snafu Golden Classics
…appeal to young men. This means there is a little bit of near and partial nudity on display, and some light cussing (like “hell”). Although quite tame by today’s standards,… |
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Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!
…a full-on pitch of a “little kids” movie. Bob went, “Eh, not really interested in that.” We thought, “Oh, okay. All right.” So we thought out a completely different storyline,… |
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Rockin’ With Judy Jetson
…perfectly fine. I’m just not a little girl, and hence not part of the target audience… assumedly. Nevertheless, we DVD reviewers sometimes have to tackle subjects that are not of… |
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The Day The Prince And The Pauper Stood Still!
…a wallop and a bass that’ll shake the panes of glass from your windows! I am a little surprised that the packaging isn’t a little snazzier: we just get a… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…stop-motion animation, using hundreds of little carved wooden puppets in a single film. The extraordinary result is still thrilling to see, even now, with the wooden characters dancing, swinging, and… |
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Director George Scribner: Happy as a King with Prince and the Pauper!
…Particularly Mickey. He tended to be, I thought, a little cuter, a little shorter, plumper, the edges tended to be rounder. I just loved the proportions that he brought to… |
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Captain America (1990)
…secrets. Steve has little time to recover, as Lt. Col. Louis (Michael Nouri) informs him that the Nazis are about to send a rocket to the USA that could kill… |
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Harry Gregson-Williams: Scoring the Return to Narnia!
…think probably some people felt like a little disappointed because I quoted a lot of music from the previous score. But it seemed to me that it would be just… |
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Animated Movie)
…writing the Rings cycle of books that Lewis felt a little shut out, having given him ideas and felt responsible for pushing Tolkien to ultimately write the best fantasy story… |
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Paul & The Dragon
…Borge Ring and Michael Dudok de Wit, to the recent world-class quality feature animation of A-Film, responsible for the delightful Help! I’m A Fish and that little Gaul’s recent adventure… |
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The Smurfs, Vol. 1: True Blue Friends
…a little kid at some point in the eighties, odds are that you watched this popular show at some point. Some people watched it because of the cute characters and… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…they brought their amazing skills, the film changes tact a little at this point, becoming more of a “greatest hits” of the duo, with many old-time and new-time animators, associates… |
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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection
…entirely by the movement of his eyebrows. While personality animation gives the emotional payoff, it is often the other little touches that can truly impress the viewer and bring big… |
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The Fox And The Hound: 30th Anniversary 2-Movie Edition
…feathered double act out to catch a sneaky caterpillar – that might feel a little old hat, but I don’t remember thinking that when I first saw the film theatrically… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!
…he gathered his lead animators in a little soundstage, and, during four hours, we told and played the whole story for them, even already envisioning the songs. For three years,… |
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Marine Boy: The Complete First Season
…Marine Boy?” I asked. Information on the Net was scarce, too, though I did find some reference to its Japanese origins. Four years later, I was a little amazed, but… |
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Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!
…the luckless groups! Annakin had kick-started his career with the Splash-like mermaid comedy Miranda with Glynis Johns in 1948, which had caught the eye of Walt Disney, who assigned him… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 2 1938-1940
…another Swee’Pea cartoon, with Popeye’s duelling natures telling him whether or not he should feel guilty for spanking his little boy. Shakespearean Spinach brings on another Bluto fight, as he… |
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It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…Although I enjoyed this one, the addition of magic into a Peanuts story seems a little out of place. Still, the ending gets it right, with Charlie once again failing… |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
…appeal to everyone, it is perhaps my favorite of Anderson’s live-action work, the poorly received The Darjeeling Limited from three years ago proving to be a little too complacent even… |
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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…sound is adequate if not inspiring, though it’s always a pleasure to hear the music of Vince Guaraldi. Guaraldi provided another vocal performance for this special, the song Little Birdie…. |
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A Charlie Brown Christmas: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…It’s a little odd to be writing this review at the tail end of reviewing several Peanuts specials. The Christmas one was the very first, back in 1965. It was… |
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Oscar, Oscar!
…came with the animation and related categories. Trumping Disney’s strong contender The Little Matchgirl and Pixar’s Lifted was Torill Kove’s The Danish Poet, a nice little film with a very… |
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At the movies: Klaatu, Julien, Despereaux, a Transporter, Bolt and Delgo!
…form for the Studio, remarking that “Disney’s computer animation has come a long way since Chicken Little just three years ago” and praising the “outstanding action sequences” and camera work…. |
