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The Black Cauldron: Producer Joe Hale talks munchings and crunchings…
…he wanted to change its fortunes, with a big, animated adventure epic that would not only please the young and the old, but most importantly the elusive teen audience. With… |
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Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies
…the stitching between the old and new, but Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies is still a nice slice of old-school Looney Tunes fun. Animated Classic or Back To The Drawing Board?… |
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Tombstone
…who was invited but unable to participate, leaving it to Harry Carey Jr to uphold the old-school Western movie traditions in the cast. Cosmatos, who could arguably be called little… |
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Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
…one continuous segment. The stories are not told through animated sequences, but instead use pictures, old archival-looking footage, live action reenactments, and sound effects to enhance the mood. Between tales,… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: Season One, Volume Four
…old horror cliché of someone being offered an inheritance if he can spend one night in a haunted house. Fred Flintstone did it too, as did numerous others in old… |
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2003: ’Tis The Season To Buy Presents!
…inside. FRANK AND OLLIE: SPECIAL EDITION DVD This very recent DVD issue features a warm and affectionate tribute to the last remaining “Two Old Men” of Disney Animation’s original line-up…. |
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David Couchariere: from Blue Sky to DreamWorks, an Animated Career
…the old days. That was very interesting, and he was a real driving force with Carlos Saldanha over there. Also, everyone in the studio concentrated on one movie at a… |
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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…a throng of happy villagers greets them, and we soon meet Nausicaa’s terminally ill father, and an old woman named Oh-baba. It is Oh-baba who tells the legend of a… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…high-definition 1.85:1 widescreen, DTS-HD 7.1 Master Audio, Rated G, Retail: $49.99 Storyboard: The oft-told tale of star-crossed lovers is given a fun new slant by way of setting the story… |
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Au clair de La Luna with director Enrico Casarosa
…time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and… |
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Bambi II: Special Edition
…being the closest Disney has come to the feel of real, old-school Walt in years. That the plot is equally concerned with the Great Prince, Bambi’s father who unwittingly takes… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…back then was a nice gatefold sleeve with a text essay inside, while the decade-old 60th Anniversary DVD added a peek at Burny Mattinson’s now discarded (unfortunately, as I thought… |
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Tom and Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 3
…kawaii. Tom and Jerry put aside their differences for a day at the beach, where they meet old friends Spike and Butch, except now they are bullying muscle heads. They… |
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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…remarkable 25 shorts: Hare Tonic, Baseball Bugs, Buccaneer Bunny, The Old Grey Hare, Rabbit Hood, 8 Ball Bunny, Rabbit Of Seville, What’s Opera Doc?, The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, A… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…and director John (Die Hard) McTiernan aboard for a script written by later Aladdin and Pirates Of The Caribbean scribes Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott, the hold-back this time was… |
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The Tigger Movie: Bounce-a-rrrific Special Edition
…the stuffing of an old pedantic Beaver into Milne’s Hundred Acre Wood escaped a culling in the hastily re-dubbed version). Walt’s plan, as is now widely known, had been to… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…artists did animate with these screen dimensions in mind, but those with the Gold Collection or LaserDisc edition may still want to hold on to those for the original aspect… |
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Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton
…so this particular theme had to be strong enough to hold the dramatic idea and yet provide some contrast with the flying theme. This tune is much more straightforward and… |
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Frankenweenie: Cinematographer Peter Sorg’s shades of grey
…three stages divided into 36 shooting units. It is situated in an old industrial estate next to the Olympic Park. Corpse Bride and Fantastic Mr. Fox were shot at the… |
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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…but at least the audiences knew their kids were safe with the Disney brand, and reissues of past animated classics brought old films back to a new generation not yet… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…Warners shorts meant the chopping and changing of many of the original cartoons’ title cards, especially a large selection of pre-1948 shorts that were sold to Associated Artists Productions who… |
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Mulan: 15th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…1080p high-definition 1.66:1 and 1.78:1 widescreen, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Rated G, Retail: $39.99 Storyboard: Based on old Chinese folklore, Mulan follows a young headstrong Chinese girl who rebels against… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…studio. Two sisters, eleven year-old Satsuki and four-year old Mei (played by real-life sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning), move to the country with their father, while their mother (Filipino performer… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…sequels harmed the legacy of Disney animation. But DisneyToons still considered Snow White to be untouchable – at least, for a while. Old Characters, New Franchises In the early ’00s,… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition
…of Weasel cohorts to save ToonTown from the bulldozers! The Sweatbox Review: First appearing as a graphic novel comic-style book by Gary K Wolf, the now twenty-five-year-old Who Framed Roger… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…son who was just a month old at launch just turned ten! All of a sudden I’m feeling very old! But I look forward to getting old with you guys!… |
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The Puppetoon Movie
…the 1930s are celebrated in this feature-length compilation, in addition to copious bonus features including two other feature films and many shorts. The Sweatbox Review: For old-time movie buffs, one… |
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Insider Access To Inside Out
…what’s great about this film. Inside Out is, in simple terms, the story of an eleven year old girl’s emotions. Her five core emotions work together in her mind in… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…the classic Disney shorts from the 50s and 60s. Animators were told to be bold with their drawings, and clean up artists had to be reminded not to make the… |
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Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season One
…The Sith, and five years prior to Episode IV: A New Hope (known to many of us old-timers as simply Star Wars). The Empire is now fully in charge. The… |
