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The Secret of Kells trailer
…Secret of Kells tells the story of 12 year old Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete the legendary Book of Kells…. |
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Britain’s Biggest Red Carpet Rolled Out To Celebrate The BAFTA Awards 2009
…seen here. In animation and visually driven films, the Best Animated Feature was awarded to Disney/Pixar’s WALL-E, where it won over Persepolis and Waltz With Bashir. Interestingly, a hold-over for… |
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Monsters Vs. Aliens vs. Zeta vs. Captain Toontastic?
…conflict and brains, The Zeta Project manages to be appealing to viewers young and old, not to mention both male and female”. With a featurette and two significant Batman Beyond… |
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Paul And The Dragon completed in Holland
…en de Draak (Paul And The Dragon). Intended for children aged 5-13 years old who are suffering with cancer, the film, which is based on the life of a real… |
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Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter
…read by some kid at a newsstand. I just didn’t get it. But then, I was just a dumb sixteen-year old. Flash forward a few years, and I decided to… |
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Paul & The Dragon
…imaginative young man whose escape into a fantasy world of his creation is threatened by a hugely grumpy old dragon, thus generating evident parallels between his situation back in the… |
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Big Bird's movie debut bounces back to DVD!
…out the old transfer and wheels in a nice new anamorphic upgrade as well as a new short but sweet retrospective with the Bird’s performer himself, Carroll Spinney. Longtime readers… |
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Schoolhouse Rock! Earth
…the DVD. Once again, the bears introduce the clip with a cub reporter telling us about global warming. The clip is sung by Dewey Drop and the Drips, an old-fashioned… |
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Tickled Pink: The Coolest Cat Turns 40
…the Pink Panther. Does this mean we will see new Pink Panther cartoons, or perhaps a DVD set of the old classic cartoons? You know you’re cool when Shag draws… |
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The Day The Prince And The Pauper Stood Still!
…tracks of old, Blu’s BonusView technology allows for picture in picture pop ups to play as the feature does, and here we’re offered two additional In-Move Experiences that can be… |
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DreamWorks announces upcoming slate
…by Chris Sanders (Lilo & Stitch) and Dean DeBlois (Lilo & Stitch), produced by Bonnie Arnold (Over the Hedge, Toy Story) and will star Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera,… |
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Superman soars! Gulliver sinks! In a double dose of Fleischer fun!
…art shouldn’t be mistreated in this way. Rather than babble on as I did with Superman, I’ve relied on the old adage “a picture speaks a thousand words”, and once… |
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Snoopy’s Reunion: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…is born at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, where he enjoys playing music with his doggie siblings. They all eventually get sold, and Snoopy ends up with a certain round-headed… |
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Scooby! Samurai Swords! Sin City! Plus Something Wicked, Honey!
…catalog reissue and little more. Those with the old edition: this is pretty much the same edition in better quality; those coming to this collection anew: be prepared to experience… |
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The Venture Bros.: 3rd Season
…whole it was a pretty wacky way to end the second season. Oh, and Dr. Girlfriend told the monarch something… shocking. Which the audience couldn’t hear. And there’s your cliffhanger… |
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Arthur And The Invisibles
…action film (and switches back and forth throughout between live action and CG animation). Arthur is a 10 year old boy who lives in 1960’s Connecticut and things aren’t going… |
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Surf’s Up
…not done such an amazing job at making this seem like it was an actual documentary (flashback footage actually looks old and worn and amateurishly filmed, boom mikes occasionally come… |
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The Simpsons Movie
…for us old timers it just makes you wish they had made a film 15 years sooner. Animated Classic or Back To The Drawing Board? The Simpsons Movie 20th Century… |
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Kung Fu Panda
…lots of pop culture references. The stories weren’t that great but a least there was some fun to be had occasionally. This worked in the sense that they sold a… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 2
…volume’s first episode, Red Dawn, Wolverine meets his Cold War-era rival, the Soviet super soldier Omega Red. While Omega Red had made his first appearance only a year before this… |
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The Jetsons: Season Two, Volume One
…two opens with a trailer for Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume One and 1970s Volume One. Finally, disc three opens with a trailer for Batman: The Brave and the Bold…. |
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Review Roundup: Up flies high, plus Hanna-Barbera classics
…most access to the old Hanna-Barbera shows, so all but two of the programs in this set are from their stable. That suited me just fine overall, as I found… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1970s: Volume 1
…was not what the networks wanted; they preferred shows that had built-in interest, which often meant making a new show a lot like an old show. The one blessing on… |
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The Transformers: The Complete First Season (25th Anniversary Edition)
…seems to vary between different episodes, but they are about what one could expect for a show that is 25 years old. After years of syndication and print copies being… |
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We now return you to our normal operating service…!
…old cliché he finds much more than meets the eye in the set’s episodes, extras and packaging, while Randall has gone even further back in time to meet another robotic… |
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Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 2
…how to get Jerry away from the hawk, resorting to good, old-fashioned cross-dressing to seduce the bird. I think it’s important to note that an often-edited scene where Tom resembles… |
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Race To Witch Mountain
…serving up a good old fashioned chase yarn. It could be said that the film does eventually become tied up in being one long pursuit, and that it doesn’t really… |
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Super Friends: The Lost Episodes
…created a syndicated package of the series’ old shows, and ABC chose to not complete with the older programs. They likely had also felt that the show had run its… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…animatronic form by the world-renowned Jim Henson Creature Shop. The results were impressive at the time and remarkably hold up today, allowing the Turtle characters themselves full expressiveness, from the… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: Season One, Vol. 3 – Hello Mummy
…quality of the print, there are some scratches and grain here and there, but nothing uncommon for a 40-year-old show (the show turns 40 next Sunday, September 13!). Scratch Tracks:… |
