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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…a higher placing here, we’ve been slightly swayed by so much rare and unseen material featuring Popeye, Oswald and Woody making their way to disc that it’s shunted Bugs and… |
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Star Trek – Lower Decks: Season 1
…M’Ress from Star Trek: The Animated Series. But, while the command officers play an important role on the show, they are not the main characters. No, that honor goes to… |
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Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter & The Wolf (2006)
…Welchman’s ambition: her Peter & The Wolf forgoes any attempt at being warm in a wanting to be liked sense and instead goes for a desolate approach that still manages… |
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Starz Kids & Family Campaign
…Marathon Monday, Jan. 1, 2007 6 a.m. – Me, Eloise 7 a.m. – Eloise: Little Miss Christmas 8:15 a.m. – Eloise Goes to School 9:10 a.m. – Eloise in Hollywood… |
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Christmas specials scheduled for Cartoon Network
…Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, The Night Before Christmas: A Mouse Tale and Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol. The schedule also features the television premiere of… |
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Shawn Patterson: Composer Maximum!
…Adult Swim September 27th. Animated Views: Despite the fact that you’ve worked for different mediums, you seem to have a particular taste for animation. Shawn Patterson: It probably all goes… |
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Helluva Boss
…Hell and features a high amount of profanity, over-the-top violence, and awfully hefty sexual innuendos. But whereas Hazbin Hotel was already very strong as an adult-oriented show, Helluva Boss goes… |
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Snoopy! X-Men! The Calgary Expo!
…in the day. Also as promised, Randall dropped in with his comments on Snoopy’s Reunion: Deluxe Edition, calling this a “unique” special, which goes back to Snoopy’s origins, though the… |
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South Park: The Complete Twelfth Season
…writers strike of last year (Canada Goes On Strike), the prevalence in our lives by the internet (the Grapes Of Wrath journey Over Logging) and sometimes it’s more head on,… |
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning
…running around six minutes in Play All mode. Director Peggy Holmes (we must assume, as she goes uncredited here) speaks about why Sebastian Waking The Girls was cut (and goes… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…as boosted the careers of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck among many others), and how different the feature animation landscape might have been had he managed to produce his proposed… |
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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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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…babies, the gang accidentally kills their babysitter and develop traits that will carry on into their adult lives. Nipple Ring-Ring Goes to Foster Care – Ling Ling goes into foster… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 1
…and while this does provide some insanely brilliant spots of genius, it also means the show loses focus as it goes, or perhaps even that its creators actually lost control… |
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Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
…upon his head. Frosty then goes on to play with the local children and they have a great time before he has to go away. The television special was so… |
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The Ten Commandments
…to a distant girlfriend as it is a plea to Mr Lord On High, and the video flits between Camp by the microphone and appropriate images from the movie, though… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…or both at the same time! In fact, the film seems to take the more “hokey” elements of the original – as well this new film – and goes about… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown
…something more with the animation, it tends to be simply conceived video tricks… flashing squares, and some mildly interesting split-screen stuff. A montage that goes on while Schroeder plays a… |
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New online comic from Pixar animator
…who worked previously on \\A Bug’s Life\\, \\Toy Story 2\\, \\Monster’s Inc\\., and \\Finding Nemo\\, is currently working on the upcoming film \\Cars\\. His new strip is online at {{link… |
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The non-reciprocal relationship between Jay Ward and Walt Disney…
…characters. Seems Walt was quite the Rocky And Bullwinkle fan, an admiration that Ward failed to return Disney’s way. Plus a look at the battle between DisneyLand’s A Bug’s World… |
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Cars: Ultimate Gift Pack
…Toy Story, this is director John Lasseter’s “difficult second movie”. Yes, he also helmed the Studio’s second and third features A Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2, but he had… |
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Pixar finds "record results" in 2005
…beloved animated films of all time: Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Pixar has won 20 Academy Awards(R) and its six… |
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Interview: Pixar's Andrew Stanton
Mulholland Drive links to a multi-part podcast interview with Andrew Stanton (A Bug’s Life, Finding Nemo), conducted by Spline Doctors. The conversation may also be heard at iTunes…. |
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The Muppets
…out with this Muppet and making my own Super 8mm films that really gave me the filmmaking bug. Instinctively, I knew how to frame things so that my arms wouldn’t… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1970s: Volume 1
…Filmation (every other series on this DVD set is from Hanna-Barbera). I was surprised that Warner had the home video rights for Tarzan— now we’ll really have to bug them… |
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The Lion King: Diamond Edition
…record they are: The Making Of The Morning Report, further deleted scenes Bug Football, Timon’s Hakuna Matata verse and a comical Can You Feel The Love Tonight?, six Musical Journey… |
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Over the Hedge roundup
Gearing up for Over the Hedge, Mad Bug reviews the recent Toronto Sprockets International Film Festival (does Mike Meyer’s Dieter host it?) screening at Ain’t It Cool News. According to… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Limited Issue
…Hercules, Mulan, Simba’s Pride, A Bug’s Life, Mary Poppins and the live-action 101 Dalmatians remake, none of them lead to any video clips, which would have been a nice surprise…. |
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Green Lantern: First Flight
…than he ever was in his bug-eyed comic appearances. Purists may be bothered by Sinestro taking on his current yellow and black costume, rather than the traditional purple-blue-black jumpsuit, but… |
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RIP, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez
…Love Bug (1979). He was likewise in the EPCOT Mexico ride at Disney World. For more information on the life of Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, please visit The Big Cartoon Database… |