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Guess who!? Woody woodpecks his way on DVD!
…the three Looney Tunes TV specials: Carnival Of The Animals, Looney Christmas Tales and Bustin’ Out All Over, a springtime program from 1980. These are not prime Looney Tunes but… |
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RIP, Shelley Winters
…voicing Crystal, the wife of Frosty the Snowman, in the Rankin/Bass treasures Frosty’s Winter Wonderland (1976) and Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July (1979). In-between those films, the actress acted… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…was before the Studio even came into being… The genesis of Journey Back To Oz – and Filmation – actually begins in the late 1950s with writer-producers Freddie Ladd and… |
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True-Life Adventures true again!
…some recently located fragments of additional footage from The Night Before Christmas (1933) which had been cut from early showings and remained unseen since. Naturally, we’ll keep you updated as… |
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Peter Pan's color catastrophe; and cropped Disney features
Some food for thought before the weekend draws upon us. In my fairly recent review for the so-called “Platinum” edition of Walt Disney’s Peter Pan (you may recall that, while… |
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Chicken Little DVD: better extras waiting for Blu-Ray?
…dip]? Well, rumors have pointed to Christmas, but then we have been waiting for that Lilo And Stitch set for a good couple of years now”. The piece also speculates… |
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Oscar-winner interview, Abrams' Trek, Laurel & Hardy's animated themes, and more Dinosaurs!
…as well as revealing Kove’s links with the National Film Board of Canada and her thoughts regarding her future in animation. Speaking days before she picked up her award, it’s… |
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Ratatouille, Tinker Bell problems?; NIMH DVD!
…could feed on the totally unpredicted popularity of surprise smash Happy Feet. Whatever happened to keeping back the “special” films until Christmas? This past holiday was especially flat, for me… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 2
…starts off as a one-shot cartoon featuring an adorable, Disney-esque baby whale before Elmyra decides to take it home, leading to a quite epic story featuring musical numbers, a ninja… |
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Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death
Before I quite get underway on this review of Nick Park’s wonderful characters Wallace and Gromit’s latest adventure, I just wanted to place previous outings in context so that the… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…gets us rolling in amusing fashion, with them telling of the genesis of Walt’s Anaheim, California park and how warned off the plans he was at the time, before an… |
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Darkwing Duck: Volume 2 – Winner Announced!
…with rambunctious adopted daughter Gosalyn and dumb but loyal pilot sidekick Launchpad McQuack, Darkwing faces angry Christmas trees, ancient pirates and mutant cabbages from outer space in his zaniest adventures… |
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The Complete Adventures Of The Little King
…before Disney themselves made some of the Alice series available) and lengthy programs featuring painstaking reconstructions of Max and Dave Fleischer’s Koko The Clown and Out Of The Inkwell cartoons…. |
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Director Frank Nissen on Cinderella III: A Twist In Time
…Cruise Line play Twice Charmed and Cinderella III? FN: Well, let’s see… I should be careful here… There’s a very old tradition of what are called Christmas pantomimes. They are… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…decades before. The native people are afraid, but there is a small rebellion beginning to take shape in the Whispering Woods. Eventually, Adam comes face to face with one of… |
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Let's end the week with a game of Cartoon Catch-up…!
…promote the new Steve Martin film out early next year, and we’re hearing that the ninth cartoon disc is probably the Christmas compilation from last year. So, apart from a… |
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Grinch still mean, after fifty years
The Seattle Times has published an article marking the 50th anniversary of the children’s classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The article reports that Random House is celebrating the occasion… |
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Back to business: new reviews and announcements!
…The 1960s Collection, a boxed-set grouping of Schulz’ celebrated gang’s first six television specials, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charlie Brown’s All-Stars plus It’s The Great Pumpkin, You’re In Love, He’s… |
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TV to DVD: Scooby, Bears, Star-Racers, Park, Avatar, Katz, Littles
…Anniversary – The Land Without Feelings, Oban Star-Racers – Volume 1, Christmas Time in South Park, Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 3: Fire, Volume 2, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist… |
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Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
…and indeed kept this up through this series. Now recompiled for DVD following a near 20-year old LaserDisc anthology set, we kick off as before with Pent-House Mouse (1963), and… |
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Jack Frost: Deluxe Edition
…tried and tested by the Rankin/Bass team over countless specials before it. The set up is same as always: we’re introduced to our host (in animated form, naturally), who fills… |
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Listen to the Alvin & the Chipmunks soundtrack
…on the album are covers of such hits as Bad Day and Funkytown, as well as new and classic versions of Chipmunk favorites Witch Doctor and Christmas Don’t Be Late…. |
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New Rapunzel image
…and also a link to few new magazine scans from Disney’s upcoming film Rapunzel. Directed by Byron Howard & Nathan Greno, Rapunzel is scheduled to hit theaters in Christmas 2010…. |
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Shrek, Grinch score ratings win for ABC
…at 8/7c, the special was followed by the Holiday favorite How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, which averaged 18.7 million viewers and a 6.8 rating/17 share in the 18-49 age group…. |
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35th Annual Annie Award nominees announced
…Voice of Clay Puppington, Moral Orel (ShadowMachine) • Madison Davenport, Voice of Sophianna, Christmas is Here Again! (Easy To Dream Entertainment) • Tom Kenny, Voice of SpongeBob, SpongeBob SquarePants –… |
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Behind-the-scenes look at Rudolph
TV Party has a detailed behind-the-scenes look at the making of Rankin/Bass’ Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The article sheds some light on the history and making of the classic Christmas… |
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel teaser!
…Chipmunks’ female counterparts, the Chipettes. Christina Applegate and Anna Faris are rumored to voice two of the chipettes. “Squeakuel” arrives at theaters Christmas day, December 25th, 2009. Thanks to “gaastra”… |
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Finding Niko
…of the elite troop that pulls Santa Claus’ sleigh every Christmas. When Niko uncovers a plot by the Big Bad Wolf and his pack to replace Santa’s ‘flying forces,’ Niko… |
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Bedtime Stories
…itself before jumping to Hairspray – can’t quite get a grip on Matt Lopez and Tim Herlihy’s screenplay, which is all too happy to go for a simple boy meets… |
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Director George Scribner: Happy as a King with Prince and the Pauper!
…novel. AV: How do you explain that, after Mickey’s Christmas Carol, it was the short format that was chosen again? GS: That’s a really good question, but I don’t have… |
