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Surf's Up at Animated Views!
…Calling it “a wonderfully original animated film”, James praises the documentary approach that gives the movie its uniqueness before starting to worry that, in copy-cat Hollywood fashion, we’ll now see… |
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Narnia news: director Apted an "interesting" choice for Voyage…
…Our Surf’s Up coverage includes an interview with the film’s directors as well as a full review of the movie itself. Our most recent DVD Reviews cover the deluxe attention… |
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Join the 300 on DVD and online!
…movie was based on the stylized graphic novel by Sin City‘s Frank Miller, and used the same technique as that film to bring the action to life, with the leads… |
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More Transformers; Frog villain cast; DVD sales and more!
Phew! I’m back from my Film Festival adventure – the movie cans are back at the studio, the foyer props back in storage and the guests back in their boxes… |
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Mickey quits…
I wasn’t able to get to The Simpsons Movie as hoped last night, but will be in line come this weekend, as will our man James who will no doubt… |
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Time for a Renaissance and another Amazon sale!
…many from just $5.99: • A.I. – Artificial Intelligence: 2-Disc Special Edition – $5.99 • Minority Report: Widescreen 2-Disc Special Edition – $6.99 • Popeye (1980 live-action movie): Widescreen –… |
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Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities
…(1940-41, 7:10) are by no means “more of the same” as the Ford ones, as these were always intended to be shown in movie houses before the main feature. A… |
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The roar of the 300 and the whimper of the Aqua Teens…
We’ve a couple of new reviews to round out the week and just in time for some light weekend reading! First up, I was almost impressed by Zack Snyder’s movie… |
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Birdman, Terabithia, and – finally – contest winners!
…have to say I was almost blown away by this very good little movie. As anyone who hasn’t read the book and been led by the special effects marketing would… |
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Plague Dogs uncut DVD, plus Joy To Sky's World
…with a chequered history, the movie was released in 1982 at over 100 minutes before being truncated to around 80 minutes, in an attempt to soften it up, for limited… |
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Back and "looking" better than ever! Plus Super Powers and Pirates!
…is that Disney has seen fit to include an insert in the package that answers some of the many questions moviegoers had! That’s right…the movie itself is so overburdened with… |
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Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas
…disc comes with Disney’s now standard FastPlay and EasyFind menus, with Fast Play leading to a selection of Sneak Peeks for Bambi, Pooh’s Heffalump Movie and Mulan II. After the… |
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Weekend wrap-up…
…the third spot over bigger hits Bee Movie and The Simpsons Movie. Any argument that Shrek The Third should have been in the running hasn’t been raised by anybody… Ratatouille… |
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Blu-Thunder: the format war is as good as over; plus Turok!
…pretty much since Blu-Ray’s debut, where Sony had learned from their bitter loss of Betamax to JVC’s VHS in the 1980s, made movie titles and players seemingly more available in… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…Bugs Bunny Movie compilation movie, always seemed to be more modern than most of the Bunny cartoons I ever saw, and it’s because it came from 1958, when the graphically-influenced,… |
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Our Enchanted celebrations continue!
…director Kevin Lima’s movie set! Also, look for our full review of the movie and the new DVD – out tomorrow – which I’ll hopefully be posting later today, and… |
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Another walk in the Park…
…Imaginationland trilogy. This gathering of three episodes from the always outrageous program has been stitched together in a single movie form, presenting about as close as we’re likely to get,… |
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Comic-Con update, plus Fred 'n' Yogi's movies finally on DVD!
…modern stone-age family, is finally set for December 2! The movie was released to DVD previously, but rights issues meant it could only be sold in Canada, from where most… |
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Ariel's Beginning's composers sing, and Open Season 2!?
…scores. For those both for and against the new movie, this is a very insightful read in more ways than one: it seems its strengths and weaknesses are acknowledged by… |
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It's the great review stack-up, Charlie Brown!
…for Pixar’s second movie. • Schoolhouse Rock: 30th Anniversary Edition – More from Rodney, looking back on this 2002 release in anticipation of the new election collection. • Won Ton… |
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Go, Speed Racer, go! Plus new discs and Iron Man 2, 3 and more!
…refer to the gigabyte allowance). As for the movie itself, those of you who have read some of my previous reviews and know my aversions to noisy filmmaking may be… |
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Indiana Jones and the alien borefest of doom…
…makes my skin crawl, and if it weren’t for Harrison Ford the film would be unwatchable, but it’s such a flat pancake of a movie that in no way holds… |
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Yogi! Fred! Caspian! All on DVD!
…sequences can have the effect of stopping the movie dead in parts (the result, perhaps, of trying to create a hit soundtrack as well as a hit movie). It should… |
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A Magic Gourd, Chipmunks, Madagascar's Nana and Wonder Woman? It's another packed post!
…it’s a genuine Disney movie in more ways that one and you could do a lot worse (Bedtime Stories, anyone?) than at least give this a rent…you may be surprised… |
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Yogi! New announcements! And tons of Pinocchio clips!
…unexpected widescreen transfer that assists the higher than average animation in making this come over as a real movie. One of the first, if not the first, animated television translations… |
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Disney magic flies again!
…(indeed, it loses some of the best info from the previous release), as Randall Cyrenne remarks in his review, the movie is a “charming film in its own right, full… |
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Shawn Patterson: Composer Maximum!
…The Fisher King movie trailer campaign. He started gaining attention in the animation world soon after his arrival on the original The Ren & Stimpy Show. He has scored and… |
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Dopey speaks: Snow White‘s characters and legacy!
…out to pick up the movie yet, this is a nice taster for the kinds of treats in store! There’s more on the Dwarfs’ characters, and the continuing importance of… |
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Warner Archive: A Distant Trumpet
Warner Bros (1964 / 2009), single disc, 2:40:1, 117 mins, Not Rated, $19.98 (available online only from the Warner Archive Collection) The Movie: In the August of 2009, Warner Bros…. |
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Warner Archive: Captain Nemo And The Underwater City
MGM/Warner Bros (1969 / 2009), single disc, 2.35:1, 106 mins, Rated G, $19.98 (available online only from the Warner Archive Collection) The Movie: In the August of 2009, Warner Bros…. |

