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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run
…the sickly-sweetness of the SpongeBob love-fest by the other characters in the movie proper and the preschool-like gentleness of the flashback scenes, too much of Sponge on the Run felt… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with art director Alexandra Kavalova
…AV: How would you describe the art direction of Mila? AK: Mila takes place in the 1940’s. The art direction has a tame palette that reflects the colours of the… |
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Elemental
…first feature started things off when they asked the question about toys. In the 2000s, it was cars that got the treatment. The formula continued in the 2010s when they… |
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Bolt: John Ashton Thomas – one bold, Bolt orchestrator!
…any of their movies… until now. Having scored the music of some of the popular animated films of our times, from Ice Age: The Meltdown, Happy Feet, Horton Hears a… |
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Inside The Box: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs DVD and Blu-ray Disc Comparisons
…actual film itself. Having the debut of the shorts in high definition is exciting, but these come at the expense of vintage material and many of the Platinum Edition featurettes… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 now available for preorder
…Time Machine (1960) and The War Of The Worlds (1953), he made Puppetoons! These brilliantly conceived animated subjects astounded the world. Now these marvels, not seen in decades, are back… |
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Apple lands animated short film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
…the BBC, who will premiere The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse in the UK, with the film available on Apple TV+ outside of the UK, this Christmas…. |
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The Wild Robot
…website, you’ve probably become aware of the hype surrounding The Wild Robot. Ever since its teaser was first released in the spring, the internet has been excited for it, eager… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
…to being heavy-handed, and while there are gentle themes of prejudice here, they never in any way feel like a lecture. Contrasting the borderline grotesque appearance of most of the… |
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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…characters: Marvin The Martian, the Tasmanian Devil and Ralph Phillips, and often show the pre-restored state of some of the films. From the fifth volume of the original Golden Collection… |
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Lightyear
…of this film was the replacement of Tim Allen with Chris Evans as the voice of Buzz Lightyear. I thought this was an understandable decision since technically these are two… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…estate. Jones is still present in the credits of the cartoons that make up the bulk of this second helping of classic Looney Tunes, of course, but this time there… |
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The Essential Daffy Duck
…animated product, and here there’s a push for the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume One on Blu-ray, and a DVD issue for The Looney Tunes Show Volume One. Case Study:… |
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Watch a first look at The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
…director Pete Browngardt, and the creative team behind the award-winning Looney Tunes Cartoons, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie stars Porky Pig and Daffy Duck as… |
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The Bad Guys
…reformed. The story centers around a heist, and the filmmakers have gone out of their way to get the various tropes of the genre right. Adult fans of films like… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six
…Three really makes a meal out of the character, presenting some of the Looney Tunes cartoons from the beginning of the series. Those with Image Entertainment’s Uncensored Bosko volumes needn’t… |
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Smallfoot
…variety. That may be down to the fact that so much of the first half of the film seems aimed more at the preschool crowd and by the time we… |
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Elio
…together. How come none of the aliens suspect Elio of being a kid when he behaves exactly like Glordon does, meaning the concept of children is not foreign to them?… |
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Nominations for the 93rd Oscars announced
…and the Black Messiah – Sean Bobbitt • Mank – Erik Messerschmidt • News of the World – Dariusz Wolski • Nomadland – Joshua James Richards • The Trial of… |
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Artist Bob Camp recalls the ill-fated Space Jam 2
In the ’90s, a “Dream Team” of superstars assembled for one of the biggest basketball games of all time. It featured few professional basketball players, however, as many of the… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume One
…the print for the documentary, but they still come across as having all of their energy. The film covers everything, from the early cartoons, and their developing of the boys’… |
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LaserDisc Archives: Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player!
…Time, and Looney Tunes After Dark. A couple of unique Looney Tunes box sets were also produced in Japan. The first one reproduced the Stars Of Space Jam VHS series,… |
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Cartoons Then and Now: Jerry Beck talks Woody, Popeye and More!
…there. But a lot of them have really gone off the face of the earth. So it’s kind of like the real mission now is to keep these classic cartoons… |
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Inside Out 2
…the two Inside Out films, the writers had too many conveniently easy solutions for the characters since they could just make up whatever they wanted since they were creating the… |
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Transformers One
Before they became sworn enemies, Orion Pax (the future Optimus Prime) and D-16 (Megatron) were best friends at the bottom of society on the planet Cybertron. Toiling away in the… |
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Space Jam: 2-Disc Special Edition
…between the Monstars and the Looney Tunes. The fates of the Looney Tunes and Michael Jordan rest on the outcome. Marvin the Martian shows up to ref the game, apparently… |
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Dog Man
…are about to fight, the more they squint their eyes, the wider the aspect ratio of the screen gets. All of these jokes come so quickly that none of them… |
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Disney’s Encanto digital soundtrack release now available!
…bambuco, mapalé, cumbia, and joropo. The score weaves in and out of the beautiful songs of Lin-Manuel Miranda. I hope that the musical imagery of the score evokes the resonant… |
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Disney historian Christian Renaut presents volume two of his Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…of the book is to discover who did what and how they came to such achievements. Thanks to hundreds of interviews, the reader will be within the studio in the… |
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Pete Nash talks “wonderfood” animation in Cloudy 2
…to made them menacing to offset their silly design. When it came to the rigs they were always need-driven. If, say, the script called for one of the characters to… |
