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Brave: Into the open air with songwriter Alex Mandel
…we are.” It’s a little more metaphoric, a little less direct. So, this is some of the things we talked about when I was writing the song. AV: What relationship… |
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An Auteur is Born – 30 Years Of Miyazaki’s Castle Of Cagliostro
…director’s most unique entries in his filmmaking career. 2009 saw the American release of Ponyo, the tenth feature film of Hayao Miyazaki, and this month also marks the 30th anniversary… |
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The Halloween Tree
…to spend out a little more on them at the time, and The Halloween Tree certainly benefits from a lavish treatment (although this is its first time on disc, it… |
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The Lion King Tenth Anniversary Reunion
…around to show everyone, who all got a kick out of the fact that were several similarities between both stories. Tidbits Following are brief little tidbits giving insight into the… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…film’s twisty, quite elaborate plotting, which pulls off a number of switcheroos quite convincingly, if sometimes a little over convolutedly. We open, naturally, in Jellystone, just as spring arrives and… |
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Warner Archive: The Big Circus
…way down the restoration line) titles out on disc (and bring in a little revenue on masters that would otherwise stay lined up on shelves). Some have bemoaned the lack… |
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Strange Magic
…throwback success of star Ron Howard in television’s Happy Days and the movie smash Grease. Lucas also had a hit around this time, of course, with a little movie called… |
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Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo
…is just an extra-long episode that probably ranks a little below the middle in terms of my favorites, coming out ahead of stinkers such as when Cyborg entered a videogame… |
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Super Bowl success…but no movie trailers?; new Potter
…CBS knows it, asking agencies to pony up around $2.6 million to place just 30 seconds of screen time on their product this year. And, usually, the film marketeers know… |
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Pottermania mach 5, plus The In-Complete Pluto
…so much time we can dedicate to running a full-time site on a part-time basis, right? Well, the catchup got a little narrower today with another new review, this time… |
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Welcome to ANIMATED VIEWS!
…hope you enjoy the results: a full-featured review and commentary site where we’ll be able to run wild a little more, offer our opinions on the topics of the day,… |
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Blu-Thunder: the format war is as good as over; plus Turok!
…animation translation Turok: Son Of Stone. I must admit to knowing little to nothing about this one, save for recent promotions for a video game going by the same name… |
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The Space Kidettes/Young Samson: The Complete Series
Hanna-Barbera (1967), Warner Archive (March 8, 2011), 4 discs, 400 mins, 1.33:1 ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0, Not Rated, Retail: $29.95 Storyboard: Little space heroes evade a space pirate trying to… |
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Tom And Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol.1
…saving his life. The duckling makes his first appearance in the cartoon Little Quacker (1950), where he almost becomes a roast duck. One of the funnier clips is in this… |
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Winnie The Pooh‘s Henry Jackman, a “First Class” composer
…combination. It’s 50% Hollywood with a little nod or tribute to Gershwin and so on through light music arrangements, and on the other hand, it’s got sort of historical references… |
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Scooby-Doo: Where Are You! The Complete Series (Mystery Machine Edition)
…muster up a decent catchphrase, unlike the show’s signature “Scooby-doobie-doo!”, which I’ve always felt is little more than a variation on Hanna-Babera’s “Yabba-dabba-doo!” from The Flintstones but has taken on… |
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More Nightmares, plus is The Chosen One worth choosing?
It’s a little early in the year, but tomorrow Tim Burton’s ultimate bad dream, The Nightmare Before Christmas finally comes to DVD and Blu-ray in the kind of collector’s package… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…answered by a cosmic force—a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe —the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico— to save her… |
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Oliver, Dave Pruiksma, and Company!
…Blu-ray Disc showings, and while I would agree that they hold little new for collectors other than fancy new covers and (yay, nay!) redundantly added set-top games, they do keep… |
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Monsters Vs. Aliens! Smurfs! Plus the WB Archives open up!
…helmed the movie with Rob Letterman. DreamWorks’ latest animated movie took a little while to get me juiced up about seeing it, having given the look of being highly derivative,… |
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Oscars, Richard Sherman, SuperFriends and more – it's another packed Monday!
…under some computer generated wow shots that do little to wow. A bonus is the movie’s epic-sounding score on CD, which isn’t bad for under $20, but otherwise there’s nothing… |
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Inside Inside Out 2 with Pixar Production Designer Jason Deamer
…and a mentor to me for my whole career, willing to help me in the beginning and kinda of mentor me a little bit, even though he was very sick,… |
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The Addams Family: The Complete Series
…too many shows to do, with too little talent available, with too little time to do good work. The Addams Family is a perfect example of some good ideas gone… |
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It's the Superman music box set, Charlie Brown!
After the excitement of Oscar weekend, things get a little bit more routine today, with Rand’s latest take on another Warner reissue in their new deluxe line of Peanuts animation… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…little to differentiate the cartooning on offer here from whatever else was out there: Horton comes from a time when quality was king. The story itself – as one would… |
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And the Academy Awards went to…; plus much more in our Oscars Special!
…as ever, an entertaining show, if a little more deflated than usual. I’m not one for Oscar bashing – I like the spectacle, the on-stage presentations and can even handle… |
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Disney unveils 2011 3D Blu-ray plans including The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast
…Christmas, and Chicken Little. Each 3D Blu-ray disc will also include thematically linked 3D menus, 3D previews of upcoming attractions, trailers and an introduction to the world of Disney Blu-ray… |
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Peter, the Wolf, and a Nutty Professor! Plus Watership Down's composer remembered…
…least not ready to blow anyone’s brains out! Nutty Prof 08 is an odd little film because it seems to lean rather heavily on Jerry Lewis’ 1963 original, surely a… |
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Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated – Season One, Volume One
…in solving the mysteries and provide little support to the young sleuths. Velma’s parents would rather keep the town’s paranormal reputation intact in order to cater to more tourists. Fred’s… |
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Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!
…rather than completing his diamond smuggling orders, is fantastically amusing here, and whenever he’s on screen he finds himself little bits of business to engage in which are often fitfully… |
