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My Neighbor Totoro
…now seen as a classic, and Totoro has in particular endured as a merchandizing success in Japan. Two sisters, eleven year-old Satsuki and four-year old Mei (played by real-life sisters… |
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Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland: How illustrators Kei Acedera and Bobby Chiu shaped the Characters’ Designs
…and his family’s white living room walls. He got his first professional art job when he was seventeen years old, designing Disney, Warner Bros., and Star Wars toys at Thinkway… |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty awakens…
…SYNOPSIS By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet… |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
…comes to the fore. Some of these tricks are old trademarks (the use of a book to highlight the main title, the typically direct and symmetrical framing, and the illustrated… |
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Inspiration for, and from, Up!
…Indeed, there are suggestion that the 71 year old was the basis for Charles Muntz in Pixar’s most recent feature Up, set amid the area’s Guayana highlands where the real-life… |
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Armageddon
…Airport were based on soapy bestselling books, but the all-star cast brought gravitas and the mold was set: the film’s Best Picture Oscar cementing the fact that more of the… |
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Mary and Max DVD and Blu-ray in June
…follows a pen-pal relationship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle (Toni Collette), a chubby, lonely 8-year-old living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman),… |
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Warner Archive: Red Skelton Whistling Collection
…alongside such films as other “old dark house” spoofs featuring Bob Hope and the like (Skelton’s hapless “in trouble” expression often resembles Hope’s, too). At times Skelton reminded me of… |
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Batman Beyond hits DVD
…old to don the cape and cowl as Batman, Wayne refuses to help – so Terry does what any brash young kid would do: steal the Bat-suit and take matters… |
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Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue
…of extras. Older viewers may find themselves preferring the previous films in the series (even my nine-year old daughter described this one as not her favorite, though she enjoyed it),… |
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The Secret Of Kells: Special Edition
…eclectic bunch that represented well the three major techniques of animation, the traditional hand-drawn “classical” style, frame-by-frame model moving stop-motion, and the now approximately thirty year old use of computer… |
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The Art Of Disney’s Tangled: an interview with author Jeff Kurtti
…this new version of the old Rapunzel fairytale’s journey to the screen… Animated Views: As a connoisseur of Disney history, both in the movies and in the parks, how did… |
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Peanuts Deluxe Holiday Collection
…to do. The limited animation, simple backgrounds, and cheap production values of these old TV specials don’t really lend themselves to impressing in high definition. Nevertheless, Warner apparently felt that… |
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Space: 1999: Season One
…for the old DVDs, and is somewhat spotty. However, it’s worth skimming through it to hear more about the origins of the show, from its use of second “series” UFO… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part Two
…extremely strong, too making for a very appealing cartoon. For this old comics fan, Batman – The Brave And The Bold is a minor miracle. Animated Classic or Back To… |
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The Art Of Kung Fu Panda 2
…it was a real pleasure, in the summer of WALL-E, when DreamWorks also put out a real winner in Kung Fu Panda, not only a hugely entertaining and strangely old-fashioned… |
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The Space Kidettes/Young Samson: The Complete Series
…well as reruns of Looney Tunes shorts and former Hanna-Barbera primetime shows. Perusing a list of shows on television that year reveals many old favorites, but there are also a… |
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Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles: The Complete Series
…and humor, this is a show that can appeal to old-time Hanna-Barbera fans as well as their kids. Is This Thing Loaded? Specific episode titles are not given anywhere in… |
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Winnie The Pooh‘s Henry Jackman, a “First Class” composer
…the Pooh movie, precisely told me about his influences from French music, from Dukas to Debussy, and it’s such a pleasure to have one composer perfectly understanding what is really… |
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D23 Expo 2011: Day 2 – Frankenweenie flies Planes with Muppets
…archer and impetuous daughter of King Fergus (voice of Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor (voice of Emma Thompson). Determined to carve her own path in life, Merida defies an age-old… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season Two, Part One
…And The Bold continued to serve up ample doses of comic booky goodness. The Batman of this show can do grim and gritty just fine, but is equally at home… |
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Private Snafu Golden Classics
…were also made but never shown; they are now unfortunately considered to be lost. All told, the Snafu cartoons cost nearly $300,000. The name “Snafu” came from an acronym that… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D
…film originally – if, sometimes, at all – the film was a risky venture back in the 1990s, even for the bold and brash – and super successful – Disney… |
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Captain America (1990)
…of gas, Steve has to bum rides off unsuspecting truckers, eventually arriving in his home state of California. He looks for his old girlfriend, and mistakes her daughter Sharon (Kim… |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…to Dumbo (1941). For roughly the next three decades, the studio made masterpieces that delighted the kid in every adult. But on December 15, 1966, the unthinkable happened: the “Old… |
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Young Justice: Season 1, Volume 2
…Titans was geared towards a younger audience, the powers at be decided to create a teenage superhero show with an edgier feel and appeal towards older children. I reviewed the… |
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William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg read The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore!
On February 26, Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore co-directors William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg entered the stage at the 84th Academy Awards to accept the Oscar for Best… |
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The Simpsons Reach Their 500th Episode
…Simpsons episodes clocking in at 86 hours and 37 minutes. Former Simpsons writer Conan O’Brien had this to say about the series, “The Simpsons came from the old world of… |
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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…intent, and yet serves up elements that should keep old fans interested and new ones excited. Based mainly on the album – the eleventh in the series – that gives… |
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Shazzan: The Complete Series
Hanna-Barbera (1967), Warner Archive (April 3, 2012), 2 discs, 389 mins, 4:3 ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0, Not Rated, Retail: $29.95 Storyboard: Siblings Chuck and Nancy travel the world of old… |
