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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition
…within each illustration (photos of the artists at work, accompanied with snippets of some wonderful archival audio) which offer up more chances of exploration. While on the face of things… |
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The Astonishing Work Of Tezuka Osamu
…are often striking, as he employed a variety of styles to tell his stories. Very little of what appears on this DVD will remind anyone visually of Astro Boy. Instead,… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez on the Walt Disney Family Museum: a flame more alive than ever
…a certain amount of documents, photos, a Multiplane camera –- which is one of the most incredible features of the museum! — and audio recordings. They also lent copies of… |
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Up:rising with Story Artist and Dug’s Special Mission‘s Director Ronnie del Carmen!
…dog; his heart is out there. Because of that, he also gets taken advantage of. In a pack of soldier dogs, he is definitely out of place as the cuddly,… |
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Fox gets more animation
…the Matthew McConaughey produced Rooster Tales, based on the life of the actor’s real life brother. “”My brother’s life is so unbelievable, we had to animate it”, McConaughey said. The… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…the Studio could match them in terms of DVD production, though the devastating events of 9/11 meant the release was delayed, the result of the inclusion of an original ending… |
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The Princess and the Frog DVD and Blu-ray in March
…including games and specially-created featurettes, take viewers on a once-in-a-lifetime tour of the storied French Quarter of New Orleans and into the magic-steeped bayou for hours of can’t-miss family entertainment…. |
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Inspiration for, and from, Up!
…balloonist Jonathan Trappe, from North Carolina, is to prove life mimics animation as he attempts a 22-mile crossing of the English Channel in a chair suspended under a cluster of… |
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Armageddon
…Of The Caribbean trilogy for Disney and two of their tentpole pictures for 2010 in Prince Of Persia and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Bay has slid into a recurring circle of… |
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Shrek Forever After
…of thought went into how to get the characters from the happy ending of the last film to the main conflict of this one. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie… |
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Toy Story 3
…intake of breath is perfectly written, animated, and performed. Moving away from the tear-jerking, Toy Story 3 is also one of the darker films Pixar has done (though part of… |
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Fantasia will amaze ya: full details
…very limited time only. The Blu-ray transformation of Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 will reveal the magic, music and majesty of both films as never before experienced, with state-of-the-art picture restoration… |
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The secrets of Walt’s Vault unlocked…!
…Disney Films and host and consultant of Disney Treasures DVDs. • “Disney history is full of unexplored byways, and no one has done a better job of mapping many of… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Glen Keane on discovering the beauty in The Beast
…a variety of real animals for me. There’s different kinds of feet and, you know, claws, exploration of a wide variety of characters that we explored. You start looking in… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition
…DVD of before, this new Diamond Edition offers up three versions of Beauty And The Beast – or just about: you can read much further on the merits of these… |
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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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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
…of life on Earth, to the aforementioned centaurs of the Pastoral (actually my favorite piece of music, played to me from before I was even born!), ballet dancing hippos and… |
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All*Star Superman
…perception, and the prospect of death, Superman finally decides to spend some quality time with Lois, revealing to her all of his secrets at his Fortress Of Solitude before giving… |
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Peanuts Double Feature: A Boy Named Charlie Brown & Snoopy, Come Home
…than others, failure is a part of life, and any one failure is unlikely to mark us for life. If Charlie Brown’s friends seem unfortunately cruel in their disdain, we… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D
…collection of Character Designs, Animation Tests and Concept Art covering individual characters and their environments. Missing from before is the proof of concept sequence and a huge number of production… |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…film of 1992. In the midst of all this achievement, Disney carefully planned their next big musical. They felt confident the picture would earn critical acclaim and break box office… |
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Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
…Autry and The Cass County Boys song of the same name, Frosty the Snowman tells the story of a snowman that comes to life after a magic hat is placed… |
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Dr. Seuss’s Holidays On The Loose!
…barest of bare elements of A Christmas Carol in its tale of a miserly old grouch, literally a ill-looking green color due to his years of built up bitterness, The… |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
…Belle’s life at the castle more than the original film. Belle’s Magical World was supposed to do the same, but instead of a feature-length film we’re treated to half-hour snippets… |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…really make the kind of impact those kinds of films can do, but top of the heap must be the major offerings from three of the biggest animation companies releasing… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…Portions of this review appeared in our reviews of previous DVD editions of this film, now with updates about the new Blu-ray Combo Pack.) Following his rather adventurous features Nausicaa… |
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Oz, The Great And Powerful (regular and 3D editions)
…some of the more abstract sights. None of it looks like Franco is really there, and he’s not always adept at “seeing” the eyeline of some of the creatures, such… |
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Free Birds creators explain why Reel FX’s first theatrical feature is no turkey
For many individuals, the best part of Thanksgiving is the holiday feast – except, of course, for those on the menu. Therein is the dilemma of being a turkey at… |
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Monsters University coming home in October
…Dean Hardscrabble), Alfred Molina (voice of Professor Knight), Charlie Day (voice of Art), Sean P. Hayes (voice of Terri Perry), Dave Foley (voice of Terry Perry), Nathan Fillion (voice of… |
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Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Pete Travers talks “wonderfood” VFX in Cloudy 2
In The Art Of Sony Pictures Animation’s Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatball 2, author Tracey Miller-Zarneke described the studio as “a group of talented artists who really know how… |
