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Nocturna inaugurates Animadrid Festival
…September at the International Film Festival of Toronto and in October at the International Film Festival of Sitges. ABOUT NOCTURNA In the dark of night, when the shadows lengthen and… |
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Justice League: Season One
…moments. Legends is a favorite of mine. The story was originally conceived as a way of bringing in the Justice Society Of America, the World War II-era predecessors of the… |
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Nightmare's here! Plus the Lone Ranger, Zorro…and Wart!
…Noyer has been speaking to a couple of members of Nightmare‘s crew: director Henry Selick revealed some of the secrets behind the scenes in a roundtable discussion and, exclusive to… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 1
…Incredibly Stupid). The final side of the set, Side B of this fourth disc rounds out this first half of Season One of Tiny Toons Adventures. Psychic Funomenon Day features… |
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Ariel’s Song: loving memories of a Mermaid‘s lyricist, Howard Ashman
…of Little Shop of Horrors. Howard was very involved in the French translation of his musical. The wordplays are very important and the choice of the right words was crucial… |
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DreamWorks Animation considering Interworld
Dark Horizons points to the official website of Neil Gaiman, where the author writes that DreamWorks Animation has optioned his and Michael Reaves’ novel Interworld. The project is explained as… |
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Osamu Tezuka and Astro Boy!!!
…legendary status of Astro’s creator, Osamu Tezuka, you should read Raz’s review of The Astro Boy Essays, then go out and read the book itself! While Dark Horse Comics has… |
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He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe: Volume Two
This second volume of the 2002 version of the classic Mattel characters provides plenty of action, though only a couple of truly interesting episodes. However, BCI as usual does a… |
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Nightmare before Halloween; Enchanted competition
This year, The Nightmare Before Christmas will have its 3-D re-release on October 19th, writes Dark Horizons. Meanwhile, it appears Disney’s Enchanted now has more competition for the November 21st… |
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Roy Disney Presents At The Newport Film Festival 2008
…Disney, nephew of Walt Disney, showed up with longtime Disney producer Don Hahn to present an evening of rare Disney shorts. Also on hand was Disney jack-of-all-trades Dave Bossert to… |
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LaserDisc Archives: Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player!
…even heard of LaserDiscs; but to many of us, there is no small amount of sentimentality about them. And, though many collectors got rid of their collections since DVD arrived… |
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Step in time! Poppins is back, plus new discs and more!
…of Mary Poppins, he’s speaking with the legendary Richard Sherman about the creation of one of Disney’s most enduring films. I’ve been a Poppins fan for about as long as… |
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Presenting Felix the Cat: The Otto Mesmer Classics 1919-1924
…new possibilities in the art of animation and became the subject of a huge merchandising blitz. Felix was pushed to the sidelines by the advent of sound cartoons, but would… |
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Monsters Vs. Aliens vs. Zeta vs. Captain Toontastic?
…knowing, but it turns out to be more along the lines of Shrek: a movie that wanted to spoof a genre but ultimately found itself wanting to be included in… |
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Richard M. Sherman on Bedknobs And Broomsticks: a Solid Songwriter!
…altar of promotion. It was not until 25 years later that Scott MacQueen took charge of the restoration of this masterpiece, originally hardly recognized by audiences, and managed to put… |
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Surf’s Up
Hollywood seems to have an infatuation with penguins! 2005 saw the release of March of the Penguins, which became the second highest grossing documentary of all time. 2006 had the… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…the theatre. Where are those types of films? Did we really need to meet all the Robinsons? Meet The Robinsons is full of contrasts. The first half of the movie… |
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Happily N’Ever After
…voices coming out of their characters’ mouths can be jarring. And of course cutting time off production means cutting corners with your story – stock characters, cliched situations, limited and… |
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Scooby! Samurai Swords! Sin City! Plus Something Wicked, Honey!
…rejoice! The always excellent Film Score Monthly selection at Screen Archives Entertainment just got a boost of James Horner with the release of two of his rarest scores. Horner often… |
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs sizzles at overseas box office
…box-office surpassing $524 million gross of Pixar’s Finding Nemo. Article says that the quick $448 million earned overseas by Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs has been one of the… |
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Gulliver’s Travels
…a state of the art representation of the original, this is like a copy of a copy of a copy of the original. That wouldn’t be so bad in itself,… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 1
…Beast. In the background, there is an image of another off-model Magneto. I do not understand the reason behind the off-model characters, but some of the designs look nothing like… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided
…the Star Wars saga. At the beginning of the season, the Galactic Republic is in the middle of the war with the Separatists (the Confederation of Independent Systems) which is… |
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Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird – 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
…of them also optional with singalong lyrics onscreen (showing off the open matte version of those scenes), but a DVD-ROM section offers up some downloadable coloring sheets and links to… |
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Watching the Watchmen, plus Green Lantern!
…make it to the screen. This comes in the form of Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter, the subject of Randall’s latest Blu-ray Disc review. Ultimately rumored to have its… |
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X-Men animated DVD volumes details released
…secrets of Magneto and more of the world’s most diabolical villains and relive 32 episodes of the series, from the two-part Night of The Sentinels through the five-part amazing epic… |
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WALL-E a winner at Grammy Awards
…Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media (Down To Earth) and Best Instrumental Arrangement (Define Dancing). WALL-E lost the Best Score Soundtrack Album to The Dark Knight…. |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars Premieres on Cartoon Network – Friday, Oct. 3
…the adventures of Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Ahsoka Tano and other favorite Star Wars characters as they struggle against the dark side during the divisive, action-packed Clone Wars. Each… |
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The Zeta Project: Season One
…least this simplicity leads to ease of animation, and the show piles on plenty of strong animation when the action kicks into gear. With its charming blend of humor, conflict,… |
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The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest: Season One, Volume One
…the Jonny Quest franchise, adding a rock man to the otherwise human group of characters for a thirteen episode run of 1986’s The New Adventures Of Jonny Quest, which ran… |
