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Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!
…Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies rolls off the tongue with the musical rhythm of Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines then you’d be right to assume a… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition
…Neige, and all the writings in the Queen’s book of spells, and the names on the Dwarfs’ beds were translated in the artwork. There are other reasons for the film’s… |
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Wild about Wild Things, Up, Sister Act and more!
…gone into them than meets the eye, and Rodney notes the “complex storylines” and “plenty of entertainment value. I would rate this season among the best of the show”. Also… |
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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume Two
…syndication back in the 1960s. The final page of the booklet shows off the covers of the six comic books from the DVD-ROM section. Ink And Paint: To call these… |
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Shakeup at Walt Disney Studios continues
…restructuring as Iger moves to position the studio for a future that includes digital distribution of movies and shortening the period between a film’s release in theaters and the home.”… |
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Disney profits up; consumer DVD spending down
…Iger continues to shuffle the company’s toppers around following the departure of Dick Cook, moving home entertainment chief Bob Chapek into an expanded role that also includes theatrical and, a… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 2
…the packaging. The “adult collectors only” warning on the back of the box is more meaningful this time around, as there could be real concern with some depictions in these… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…the need to put these volumes out, but fans lapped them up. What they lacked in extras they made up for in the quality of the show and its writing,… |
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Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas
…back to celebrate the festive season with The Man With The Yellow Hat. The Sweatbox Review: Although Disney’s well-promoted release of The Princess And The Frog has done well to… |
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Lionel Jeffries RIP
…The Railway Children and other children’s films including the part animated Wombling Free and The Water Babies. The Guardian has posted a warm obituary, and the UK’s Telegraph has more…. |
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Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey
…back to her family. The Sweatbox Review: With Disney’s The Princess And The Frog making the big waves for the return of hand-drawn animation to the big screen, it’s easy… |
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20,000 Leagues to surface…twice?
The ongoing drama behind Disney’s remake of its landmark 1954 feature 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea has taken another turn towards surfacing on screen after all. The project recently took… |
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Disney moves forward with The King of the Elves
…both in their formative stages. While the details on these projects are slim, they are being described as something very unlike what we’ve seen in the past from the studio…. |
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Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time
…time Mickey-mouska-marketeer Dick Cook. Neither is it fair to blame an outgoing regime: surely the filmmakers themselves should accept the majority of the responsibility for essentially making dud movies? By… |
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Disney documentary DVD exclusive offer!
…were actually there. The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story is an intimate journey through the lives of Robert and Richard Sherman, the astoundingly prolific Academy Award-winning songwriting team. While their… |
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Young Justice
…is the appeal to adults through “dark” and “edgy” plotlines (forgive the clichéd terms). Over the years the shows from Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995) to the Justice League Unlimited… |
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Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles: The Complete Series
…single segment of the first-named show, book-ended by two segments for the latter. The Impossibles also gained the lion’s share of moments in the opening and closing credits. That’s a… |
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The Herculoids: The Complete Series
…is also not the animation itself, though there is some nice work, which naturally gets reused throughout the show. No, the real fun of the show is gaping at the… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…Studios’ sound department is revisited again to show the Sound Design Excerpt From The Reluctant Dragon, the live-action tour film that opened the doors to how the magic was created… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…thin premise. There is an unwritten “rule” than the Lion King films all follow Shakespearian themes, with the 1994 original loosely following the plot and events of Hamlet, and the… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…fans were very excited, but the cracks were quick to appear. Unhappy with the performance of their then-recent girl-centric offerings The Princess Diaries 2 and the high-profile The Princess And… |
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Home On The Range
…or two on the way to the theater. Until the Studio set itself right again, under the new leadership of John Lasseter, and started producing the very kinds of films… |
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The Halloween Tree
…involving themes and questions asked on the page struggled to make it to a convincing screen adaptation. On the small screen there have been many more translations, although the lower… |
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2012 Annie Award nominations announced
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced nominations today for its 40th Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. The nominees for Best Animated Features… |
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Van Dyke honored at SAGs
Disney Legend Dick Van Dyke accepted his previously announced SAG Life Achievement Award this past weekend according to CBS News. The 87 year-old told the audience giving him a standing… |
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From Snow Queen to Pinocchio II: Robert Reece’s animated adventures in screenwriting
…like the coach watching his or her team from the sideline,” explains Reece. “As the writer, you’re on the field, very close to the action. But the coach has a… |
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Tom Hanks’ Electric City wins Streamy for Best Animated Series
…corrupted by greed and crime. The Streamys honor the best in original online video programming. For a full list of winners and nominees, check out the award show’s official website…. |
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First award for Monsters University
…will receive the award on behalf of Pixar. Carlos de Abreu, the founder of the awards, and a committee determine who win the honor. A recent deal was struck with… |
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Saving Mr. Banks roundup
Saving Mr. Banks opens next week in the United States, but it’s already made its debut overseas. The Mirror has photos from the premiere, including some of the stars of… |
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Saving Mr Banks
…through in the film’s 1961 present and these edits can be very smart, if cute, but at other times it does feel like either the flashback or the present scene… |
