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Walt Disney Treasures…live again!
…finally found its natural home in Maltin’s silver tinned collection. However, you’ll have to wait just a little longer for my take, which I’m working on getting up for Monday!… |
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Looney gold; Beetle Bailey reviewed!
…little collectible, as a piece of Paramount cartoon history”. We have reviews in the works for the trio of Walt Disney Treasures making their way to stores tomorrow, so stay… |
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Aquaman swims again!
Our comic book animation geek Randall Cyrenne has gotten his feet wet with his latest DC Comics Classic Collection review for The Adventures Of Aquaman, a fun if slight little… |
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Eric Goldberg's Character Animation Crash Course book!
…forget to check in from Monday, when we’re going under the sea for the first in Jeremie’s new Little Mermaid series! We’re good to you, right? Stay tooned! – Ben…. |
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Alice returns to Walt's Cartoonland!
…on a neat little collection from Ray Pointer’s Inkwell Images: Alice In Cartoonland. As with Ray’s other early animation titles, this is another important addition to any serious enthusiast’s library…. |
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Spooky! Doomsday, Mickey reviews and Pixar contests!
…the main feature comes off as a little disappointing to him, failing “on its promise to adapt a popular storyline and modifying it into a barely recognizable story that portrays… |
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Birdman's back! And so are Raggedy Ann and Andy!
…big names. A box-office fiasco, the movie was only issued once on LaserDisc, from which I have a copy, in an odd half-anamorphic transfer that cropped a little from its… |
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Good g-Reef! The latest fishy tale reviewed…
…draw your attention to The Reef, the “little film that could” as producer Mark Dippé describes it at one point in his commentary. True, the film does come off as… |
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Plague Dogs uncut DVD, plus Joy To Sky's World
…website lists little more than this, but it does indeed seem that the unedited version of The Plague Dogs is headed to DVD – in the UK at least –… |
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Kermit, Piggy, Woody, Oswald…and Jerry Beck too!
…historian whose good work we can thank for bringing many of the aforementioned titles to our favorite shiny little discs. Jerry’s been working his magic on collectors’ editions since the… |
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Birdman, Terabithia, and – finally – contest winners!
…have to say I was almost blown away by this very good little movie. As anyone who hasn’t read the book and been led by the special effects marketing would… |
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Potter, Austen, de Vil…and lots of spots!
…value and make up a nice little set. Beatrix Potter was of course the subject of the recent animation-tinged Renee Zellweger biopic Miss Potter, a hearty recommend for anyone who… |
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Blow me down! Popeye Volume 2 reviewed, plus Shrek The Halls details!
…while using other peoples’ songs. Shrek The Halls, which is otherwise a funny little Christmas special, comes to disc on November 4…just in time to buy it before most realise… |
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Treasures found!
…a little bare bones”, with several milestones still missing. • Your Host, Walt Disney – a trip through Walt’s personal playgrounds: the film studio and theme park that bear his… |
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Sin City: Blu-ray Disc (plus Recut, Extended & Unrated Edition)
…and C regions, a rarity for Disney’s discs, so it’s clear that the Studio see this as a catalog reissue and little more. Those with the old edition: this is… |
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20th Century Fox presents World’s Tallest Scrat!
…The Dinosaurs. Measuring in at a Mammoth 48 feet tall, things got a little chilly in Southern California on Tuesday when Scrat, sculpted by innovative ice company Ice Bulb, was… |
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Zorro: How Disney Legend Floyd Norman was put in jail by Sergeant Garcia!
…a little family company back in those days, and we all knew each other. Sadly, things are not like that today. Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro, The Complete First and Second… |
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Michael Jackson’s This Is It
…accompany the stage spectacle. Jackson is in good shape; he looks a little thin, but is not gaunt or frail, and routinely puts the other dancers half his age to… |
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Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 3
…that are strictly cat and mouse chases, sometimes with a little twist, are Cat Napping, The Flying Cat, Designs on Jerry, The Night Before Christmas, The Bowling Alley-Cat, Fine Feathered… |
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New announcements and Saturday Morning clips!
…four episodes for $14.98 a pop. For those needing a TV fix a little sooner than that, check out the following clips from Warners’ Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s and 1970s… |
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Wild about Wild Things, Up, Sister Act and more!
…came along to think of them as anything other than fiddly little toys that broke if you got too vigorous with them, and didn’t hold the toy commercial TV episodes… |
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The Transformers: Season Two, Volume One (25th Anniversary Edition)
…new storylines for the show. As far as the set goes, I’m a little disappointed by the lack of extras on this set. The fact that Shout! still hasn’t bothered… |
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The Disney Song Encyclopedia
…The Little Mermaid or Beauty and the Beast. Others, maybe older or more acquainted with Disney history, would pick Mary Poppins or Snow White. Yet, whatever the age, the life… |
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Ariel's Beginning's composers sing, and Open Season 2!?
Jeremie – who has a heap of really cool interviews on the way let me tell you, is back today, continuing his journey under the sea for our Little Mermaid… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 3
…Nightcrawler and how the X-Men first meet him. While a fan favorite in the comics, Nightcrawler gets very little screen time in this original series (although he would be a… |
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South Park Chihuahua…a new breed? Get Outa Here!
…we ourselves took apart in our review. The season may be a little more scatter-shot than usual, but South Park‘s still showing how right it can be while being so… |
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More Peter & The Wolf, Madagascar 2 – and a quick catch-up!
…actually ended up catching up a TV showing, where it entranced the eight-year old girl in the family even though I feared it might be a little too grim for… |
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Oscars, LaserDiscs, Lost Chords, and Wild animals!
…film growing in popularity thanks to yearly screenings is sadly long gone. I’m a little disappointed, as a few others seem to be, that the groundbreaking Speed Racer hasn’t featured… |
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Yogi! Fred! Caspian! All on DVD!
…Caspian contest ends! We’ve also got a little more on the creation of the climax to the film: Prince Caspian‘s Beruna Bridge sequence. Think that was impressive? Wait until you… |
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Where's WALL•E? Right here!
…Iwerks’ 2007 feature documentary The Pixar Story, a slightly odd inclusion that gets a little lost in this collection, but is nonetheless very welcome. The set’s picture and sound is… |