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Only Yesterday
…the edges, and the characters have slightly more cartoony expressions with less depiction of facial muscles. The older Taeko is travelling from Tokyo to the countryside, to visit the family… |
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San Diego 2016 Comic-Con Exclusive
…sold out for years, with badges becoming harder and harder to obtain. This year introduced the coded badge system that was seen at WonderCon. At every door into the San… |
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Raiders! The Story Of The Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
…any old fan film. Arguably it could be said to be the very first of any real significance or renown for, in the summer of 1982 two friends set out… |
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Finding Dory swimming onto Blu-ray in November
…Dory’s doting parents Charlie and Jenny are portrayed by Eugene Levy and Diane Keaton, and 12-year-old Hayden Rolence steps in as Nemo, the young clownfish with a lucky fin. The… |
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The Walt Disney Studios: A Lot To Remember
…where the supplemental extras and still-frame galleries on the home video discs of old left off, there’s been something of an explosion in such books that delve into the creative… |
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Back In Time
…typical all-American mid-80s time-travelling teenage adventurer Marty McFly and his crazy old pal who claims to be a scientist, Dr Emmett Brown, skipped 30 years to arrive in our present,… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Sixth Season
…from their cosmic pal Prismo (who, it turns out, is really just the dream of an old man), and break into a multiversal prison called The Citadel, despite interference from… |
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The Venture Bros.: The Complete Sixth Season
…to new depths, moving into a ratty old building previously owned by his father. As he and 21 get comfortable watching reruns and hanging out in their bathrobes, Dr. Mrs…. |
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Some time with Borrowed Time directors Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj
…hold off on making a film until we were in the same place. It wasn’t until 2010, when I started at Pixar, that we could finally move forward with something…. |
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Is it Throwback Thursday? The new Pete’s Dragon is now available…on VHS!?
…sending out a very special package to select review websites: a clamshell VHS edition of the movie! The clamshell doesn’t actually contain an old-school tape but a digital HD code… |
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2016: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…study these films on Blu-ray), and even the frivolous The Art Of Minnie Mouse gave us interesting visual riffs on one of Disney’s oldest characters. Two books really excelled this… |
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Star Wars icon Carrie Fisher passes away following heart attack
…had completed work on Star Wars: Episode VIII earlier this year, and was, of course, seen in last year’s mega-blockbuster Star Wars: The Force Awakens. She was 60 years old…. |
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Trolls: Party Edition
…who told me she was very glad she gave the movie a try). It’s constantly playful, zippy, fun, and easy to like, delivering big laughs along with a surprisingly poignant… |
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Beauty and the Beast
…maintain the momentum by taking on the “tale as old as time”. Coming out of the theater, I felt that I liked it enough to consider it a good film…. |
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Sing
…the inevitable all-singing finale. It’s remarkable that the 65+ songs in Sing, including that old Idol/X-Factor standby, Hallelujah, took up a reported 15 percent of the budget and yet the… |
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The Boss Baby
Life is perfect for seven-year-old only child Timothy Templeton. His mom and dad lavish him with attention and take part in all his imaginative adventures. But things change when a… |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…old colleague Kelly Asbury whom he had met on Prince Of Egypt and Spirit. We really can feel that connection and love for the Smurfs in Noëlle and Patrick’s work…. |
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The Road To Broadway And Beyond: Disney’s Aladdin – A Whole New World
…gold-leaf edging and several fold-out pages, and a relative dream come true at just $40, a price point that will surely drop further given online discounts, making this a must-have…. |
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Bambi Signature Collection Edition on Digital HD and Blu-ray May 23rd
…IMPRESSIONS OF THE FOREST o MUSIC: NATURE’S SYMPHONY o HISTORY: BACK TO THE BEGINNING · TRICK OF THE TRADE (Excerpt) · INSIDE THE DISNEY ARCHIVES · THE OLD MILL: ANIMATED… |
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Spirit “gets his name” in new Riding Free clip
…shows the titular horse–who is apparently owned by a cowboy now–parting ways with his old master to have adventures with his new friend. The Netflix series, for better or for… |
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Production Designer Bill Cone feels at “Eze” in the world of Cars 3
…that region, because it was one of the origin points of that type of racing. We also went to an old dirt track up there, and then drove through the… |
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UPDATED: Olaf’s Frozen Adventure will go to theaters in front of Coco; first trailer released
…Adventure” opens in front of Disney•Pixar’s original feature “Coco” in U.S. theaters on Nov. 22, 2017. ABOUT DISNEY•PIXAR’S “COCO” Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel (voice of… |
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Cars 3
…this segment makes up the bulk of the running time. He meets some unlikely allies (including an old-timer) who help him learn a valuable lesson, which he takes with him… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Seventh Season
…his old flame, Betty). Finn and Jake have a few adventures, and revisit Farmworld. New characters such as Blank-Eyed Girl and Huntess Wizard are introduced, and we get to know… |
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DuckTales
…to older viewers because it knows they’re watching. It does so because it knows those older viewers are enjoying it. The show takes a slight risk in waiting until the… |
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The Lego Ninjago Movie
…of the story is predictable to anyone who is over 12 years old. While it’s still an enjoyable enough ride, it lacks a lot of the wacky spontaneity that made… |
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Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season Three
…Timothy Zahn novels of the 1990s. Originally depicted as a leading light in the Empire who gained prominence after the Battle of Endor (in the old chronology, before The Force… |
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Disney and Pixar animator/voice actor Bud Luckey passes away
…Rick Dicker in The Incredibles and Toy Story 3 as Chuckles the Clown. Luckey was also the voice of Eeyore in 2011’s Winnie the Pooh. He was 83 years old…. |
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Muppet Babies Composers Andy Bean & Keith Horn Make Your Dreams Come True
…my favorite shows. I mean The Muppets came out in 76, and I was born in 76, the cartoon came out in 84. I was eight years old and I… |
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Incredibles 2
…rather just take an old hero and swap races or genders rather than write someone new. In Incredibles 2 the writers get to come up with a supporting cast of… |
