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Enchanted‘s Visual Heritage
…reflect the moment Belle and the Beast fall in love! Desperate to remove Giselle from the equation, Queen Narissa disguises herself as a strangely familiar Old Hag, both in the… |
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Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death
…the best family films, when it needs to be scary it’s not afraid to be, providing some heart stopping thrills amongst the comedy. The title itself alludes to the old… |
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The Nutty Professor (2008)
…what the production requires. Less successful is the opening, which doesn’t do a great job of setting up Julius Kelp’s grandson Harold – the new protagonist for this outing –… |
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The Secret Of The Magic Gourd on DVD – Winner!
…entire family. When an inquisitive 11-year-old discovers a mythical, magical gourd while fishing, he has no idea of the trouble that lies at the end of his hook. With the… |
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2006; summer 2007; Disney Blu-Ray…
…us first time around. So…2007? Gonna be just like 2006, it seems, with the consumers still getting suckered in for the old double-dip switcheroo! Let’s all jump on for the… |
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Treasures saved?; Number one Night; Iron Man reviewed!
…Disney fans. I’ve just confirmed this morning with Buena Vista Home Entertainment that their much loved Walt Disney Treasures line of DVDs has NOT been cancelled. In fact, I’m told… |
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Cinderella III review and director interview
…past the truly agonizing first act and take it at direct-to-DVD face value, there’s some good old-fashioned entertainment to be found in there. Though I didn’t agree with several problems… |
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WB DVD: more Animaniacs, and The Phantom Tollbooth!
…many more classic motion pictures are teased. If you’re not only an animation fan but also one of “old Hollywood” like me, there’s lots to get excited about! – Ben…. |
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Blu-Ray Pans and Chickens…
…but that doesn’t mean that good old standard DVD should become a secondary format. At the moment, hi-def is a niche collectors market, like LaserDisc was to VHS. It’s going… |
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A Princely Valiant review, plus best He-Man…
Sorry for the howling header for today’s brief welcome…it’s been one of those weekends! Anyhoo, a couple of reviews have been added to the site for releases old and new…. |
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Aardman's new home; Treasures still a comin'; new contest and more reviews on the way, plus a recharge to the site coming soon…
…the upcoming Surf’s Up, that Sony really wants a piece of the lucrative animation pie, and their partnership with Aardman’s unique, somewhat “old school” techniques will at least offer them… |
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Jackson up for Tintin; plus Venture and Ghostbusters reviews
Hey folks! We’ve a couple of television animation reviews for you today, covering series old and new. First up, Randall Cyrenne cracks open The Venture Bros: Season Two, the final… |
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Uh-oh: more Happy Feet? …and: excited about this year's TV pickups?
…of its creative footing. The good news is that Keifer Sutherland and the original crew are on board, but this time around we’ll have a new cast (“some old favorites… |
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Arthur And The Invisibles
…way into the world of the Minimoys, the ancient family of creatures that may hold the key to where his Grandpa disappeared to, and be able to help save both… |
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Lee a marvel at Mouse House?; Disney Songbook comes to London
…has his best stuff in him. Finally before the weekend, I’ve been trawling through some of my old haunts in London recently and came across a couple of things that… |
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WDFA becomes WDAS. Not the same, is it?
…– the same image as adorned the Walt Disney Productions sign in the 1930s – but even this looks like it’s been reprinted out of an old, two-strip color comic… |
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Join the 300 on DVD and online!
…it takes! For the rest of us, we’ll just wait until the end of July to watch what promises to be an enjoyable, barnstorming action picture of the old-school epic… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…to complete it. Over the years, little bits and pieces were worked on, but it was when Filmation was eventually sold to the Teleprompter Company that enough finance was raised… |
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Little King and Bravestarr's best, plus hi-def gripes
…“toyetic” series that was intended to do for the Wild West what He-Man did for Greyskull. Coming just as I was too old to really dig the show, I can’t… |
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Scully on Simpsons, plus good reviews galore!
…a fan of the 18-year-old series could ask for, a clever and spirited big-screen version of its better-known small-screen cousin”. Over at The Guardian‘s UK newspaper, Peter Bradshaw says at… |
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Time for a Renaissance and another Amazon sale!
…some older titles, including several well recommended ones and animation releases you may have been waiting for such a price drop on. Here are my personal picks of the bunch,… |
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Popeye (live-action movie)
…Altman’s canon is underrated and worthy of another chance on its debut on DVD. A grand failure, audiences just were not ready to see live-action actors recreating age-old comic book… |
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I Yam What I Yam…Popeye's here!
…old, faded public domain prints coming up to air on most discs you wouldn’t even use for coasters! But, as of Tuesday this week, those original, gloriously black and white… |
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Romeo, Romeo…Sealed With A Kiss DVD Special!
A fair old while ago, I mentioned the good news that the independent distributor Indican Pictures had made arrangements with animator-director Phil Nibbelink to secure his self-made animated feature, a… |
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Space Ghost, Dino Boy and the great animation DVD summer!
…whose designs shaped mid-1960s action adventure shows and who passed away just last year. The set sounds like a remarkable tribute, a “must-own for fans of old-fashioned cartoon greatness” as… |
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Ghosts, ghouls and goblins? Either our reviewers or it must be Halloween!
While we don’t have much new to post this All Hallow’s Eve, howsabout a run down of some of our more ghoulish titles’ reviews? I crept down into the old… |
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Aquaman swims again!
…action show I remember enjoying weekday afternoons back in the day. True to my memories, Rand calls the show “old school, goofy comic book fun” with “an easy charm that,… |
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“Life is like a hurricane…”: DuckTales; plus Sonic and Snow White at 70!
…to my ears) only helps invoke the feeling of Old Hollywood and that magical night on December 21 1937 when animation and filmmaking was changed forever. The site also has… |
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Walt Disney Treasures…live again!
…a matter of time before they at least offer support for both formats. Tell ya one thing…I didn’t just hold off buying a couple of DVD titles over the holidays… |
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The Ten Commandments
…and I’m still trying to make the connection between their name and the image of an old galleon ship. As the main menu flashes up, the disc’s contents suddenly become… |

