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The lighting and look of Dragons
…Deakins is most well known for his live action work (No Country for Old Men, The Village, A Beautiful Mind, The Shawshank Redemption) and had little experience in animation —… |
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Toy Story and Toy Story 2 on Blu-ray/DVD – Winner Announced!
…film and won a Special Achievement Academy Award. Experience a hilarious fantasy about the lives toys lead when they’re left alone. Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks), an old-fashioned cowboy doll,… |
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How To Train Your Dragon
…Dean DeBlois (the head writer of Mulan), Bonnie Arnold (producer on Toy Story and Tarzan), Darren Holmes (film editor of The Iron Giant and Ratatouille), John Powell (composer of Happy… |
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The First Easter Rabbit: Deluxe Edition
…title effects (featuring a song repeated again a few minutes in), and a moment of familiarity when it falls back on that old Irving Berlin chestnut Easter Parade. (As an… |
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Animated genre types are Drawn Together for their movie debut
…archetypes from the world of animation and include: Captain Hero, a not-so-moral do-gooder reminiscent of the Saturday morning TV super heroes of the 70s; Clara, a 20-year-old sweet and naive… |
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The Lord Of The Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…film was critically blasted and, despite a moderately good income, the projected “Part Two” never materialized, save for a much later children’s television adaptation of Return Of The King, told… |
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The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!
…a demonstration on how to make your own. It’s done like an old instructional video, except for having a naked lady in it. The Deleted Scenes (8:29) answer the question… |
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Upgrade to Blu-ray Warner Bros. discs
Warner Bros. has announced the re-launch of its DVD-2-Blu campaign to help consumers make the leap to hi-def. The process is simple: send in your old DVDs with a nominal… |
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Iron Man – Armored Adventures: The Complete Season One
…old one, who was his stepfather. Gene knows that Tony is special, Pepper exudes curiosity and chattiness in ample quantities, and the rest of the student body fails to notice… |
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The Art of Toy Story 3: animation historian Charles Solomon tells about his “Favorite Toys”
…work, who know what they’re doing is good and new — which is how the old animators described Disney under Walt, especially during the days of the Hyperion Studio. AV:… |
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Alice In Wonderland
…able to create. Is This Thing Loaded? With a box-office take exceeding a billion dollars, you might expect Disney (of all companies) to hold back on an all-singing, all-dancing disc… |
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Toy Story 3: Animator Victor Navone talks about his “Favorite Toys”
…my own little girls to inform my animated performances. I even filmed reference of my 5-year-old for a couple of scenes. Once I had a lot of human shots under… |
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The Characters of Rango
…fish, a small plastic palm tree, an old radio that plays music, a large toad, a mole, and a guitar. Starring Johnny Depp as a “chameleon with an identity crisis”,… |
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The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo: The Complete Series
…sixteen years old and was starting to show its age. It was sandwiched between the much-maligned introduction of Scrappy-Doo in the late 70s on Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo and the popular… |
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Super Friends: Season One, Volume Two
…who want to destroy all the gold in the world. They naively think that this action would solve a lot of the world’s problems. To make matters worse, their beam… |
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MAD magazine coming to Cartoon Network
…the magazine as well as old cartoons such as Spy. Vs. Spy. The LA Times has an interview with the show’s producers Mark Marek (Crank Yankers) and Kevin Shinick (Robot… |
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G.I. Joe: The Movie – Special Edition
…of the film, the show does look great for a twenty-three year old print. The print is relatively free of excessive grain or dust fragments and looks sharp for its… |
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Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time
…no one could say wasn’t sold as a solid family adventure “from the producer of Pirates Of The Caribbean”, no less – turn out to probably be warranted, and despite… |
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Rudolph / Frosty / Santa Claus: The Original Christmas Classics
…out videos, broadcasts or previous DVDs, these transfers make the old new again, with a sharpness, brightness of color and clarity that happily doesn’t really spoil the magic of the… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Glen Keane on discovering the beauty in The Beast
…on the old version, the original one that he and Walt were trying to crack. And he just said, “Oh, it was just frustrating. We just couldn’t do it.” We… |
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Technicolor’s Atomic Puppet
…CHILDREN’S ANIMATED SERIES ATOMIC PUPPET Technicolor today announced its latest children’s animated series project, having optioned Atomic Puppet, a new action-comedy broadcast series targeted for six to eleven year olds…. |
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Fifty Years With Brutus!
…the name of Brutus. In the older Popeye cartoons, produced for theatre screens starting in the 1930s, the sailor battled a similar looking man named Bluto. However, when production began… |
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He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…of us mostly remember the holiday-oriented ones. While I think one could be forgiven for forgetting some of the later specials, for example, each one of the older 1960s specials… |
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It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
…surrounds also gives scenes that much more atmosphere, giving this old TV special a bit of new life. Dialog still seemed ever so slightly muffled, perhaps showing different recording equipment… |
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Thundarr The Barbarian: The Complete Series
…this to be the case, but until you get to see it again— such as when it’s released on DVD— you’re just not sure how well it will hold up…. |
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New US trailer for The Illusionist debuts online
A brand new official US trailer for Sony Pictures Classics’ upcoming animated feature The Illusionist has debuted over at iTunes. Based on an old Jacques Tati script, the story follows… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 1 and 2
Walt Disney Productions (1937-2007), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (October 26 2010), single discs sold separately, 73 and 63 mins respectively, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio (with one 1.78:1 exception), Dolby… |
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He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special
…Ink And Paint: The Christmas special is featured in the original 1.33:1 aspect ratio of its original television broadcast. The image looks relatively clean for a 25 year old special… |
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Secret Origin: The Story Of DC Comics
…spark was lit by seeing Richard Donner’s Superman movie as a six year old in 1978, soon after which my bedroom wall was covered in all things Man Of Steel…. |
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Legends Of The Superheroes
…show have been getting sold at comic conventions for many years, alongside Corman’s Fantastic Four and episodes of Mr. Terrific. For those who haven’t seen it, though, you can now… |
