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Director Luiz Bolognesi tells A Story Of Love And Fury
…is synonymous with not accepting things as they are. So I decided to tell the history of America from the point of view of the Indians, working hard in their… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with art director Alexandra Kavalova
After the great success of the crowdfunding campaign launched on Indiegogo that raised more than $60,000, the production of Mila has regained force, hope, and energy to pursue their goal…. |
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Bolt: John Ashton Thomas – one bold, Bolt orchestrator!
…the visual as well as musical point of view. Was the orchestration different, too? JAT: The orchestra is the same for the TV sections as it is for the rest… |
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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snow Days
…It’s just as plain as the rest of the disc, a fact made worse when you consider that these shows have no Vince Guaraldi music in them to liven them… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…Pete’s Dragon, The Fox and the Hound and The Black Cauldron. Ron Clements made his writing-directing debut with John Musker on the 1986 Disney animated feature The Great Mouse Detective…. |
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The Wild Robot
…described as spiritual. From the snowflakes which float around until they land on an animal’s fur, to the fire which dominates the story’s climax, The Wild Robot feels like a… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run
…the sickly-sweetness of the SpongeBob love-fest by the other characters in the movie proper and the preschool-like gentleness of the flashback scenes, too much of Sponge on the Run felt… |
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Apple lands animated short film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
…the BBC, who will premiere The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse in the UK, with the film available on Apple TV+ outside of the UK, this Christmas…. |
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Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition
…became the spectacular folly that taught them where their strengths and weaknesses lay and The Great Mouse Detective built on that and past tradition to promise bigger and better things… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 now available for preorder
…Time Machine (1960) and The War Of The Worlds (1953), he made Puppetoons! These brilliantly conceived animated subjects astounded the world. Now these marvels, not seen in decades, are back… |
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Lightyear
…the references to Buzz Lightyear from the previous films. The writers have done their homework! Catching all the little things that explain or at least call-back to what toy Buzz… |
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Helluva Boss
…gorgeous scenes and landscapes that they can definitely be admired without characters populating them. And even with the contrasting vibrancy between Hell and Earth, they synchronize with the characters so… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…taking turns manning it. This paid off nicely when one day John Musker (co-director of The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, and the upcoming The… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
…the movie isn’t intended to leave its viewers quite literally in the dark, which probably means there was something wrong with the presentation at my theater…which is especially frustrating when… |
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Santa Inc.
…that, a reference is made to the size of Prancer the reindeer’s junk. Then there’s more profanity. Lots more profanity. Then there are “jokes” about women being sexually assaulted at… |
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The Bad Guys
…The Usual Suspects or Reservoir Dogs will be smiling at all the nods while they watch with their children. And while the tone is definitely kid-friendly, the plot itself has… |
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Smallfoot
…variety. That may be down to the fact that so much of the first half of the film seems aimed more at the preschool crowd and by the time we… |
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Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition
…taught them where their strengths lay and The Great Mouse Detective the film that brought them together for better things ahead, then Oliver & Company is where the elements really… |
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Nominations for the 93rd Oscars announced
After a weird year for movies, cinema in 2020 has finally almost reached its end with the nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards being revealed. Leading the animated entries is… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company Animator Dave Pruiksma!
…Dr. Dawson character to life for The Great Mouse Detective. After a brief stint working on the feature-length production, The Chipmunk Adventure (again focusing on the more appealing Chipmunk characters),… |
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A Conversation with Terry Rawlings
…and the horse on the top of the building, just like the old films. AV: Yeah, but the opening of the second one is great as well, where they’ve got… |
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Inside Out 2
…the two Inside Out films, the writers had too many conveniently easy solutions for the characters since they could just make up whatever they wanted since they were creating the… |
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Transformers One
Before they became sworn enemies, Orion Pax (the future Optimus Prime) and D-16 (Megatron) were best friends at the bottom of society on the planet Cybertron. Toiling away in the… |
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Disney historian Christian Renaut presents volume two of his Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…Besides the many anecdotes by the artists themselves, I could get in touch with the sons and daughters of the wizards who made them: Testimonies by Bill Peet’s son will… |
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Dog Man
…are about to fight, the more they squint their eyes, the wider the aspect ratio of the screen gets. All of these jokes come so quickly that none of them… |
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Pete Nash talks “wonderfood” animation in Cloudy 2
…to made them menacing to offset their silly design. When it came to the rigs they were always need-driven. If, say, the script called for one of the characters to… |
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Disney’s Encanto digital soundtrack release now available!
…the film. In the film, the magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal—every child… |
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ZooPhobia: Bad Luck Jack
…nature. There are other characters with defined personalities, but little time is spent on them due to the nature of the story’s focus on Jack and the short runtime. Speaking… |
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Danger Mouse: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2
…with the intention of providing some gentle satire while still telling a ripping yarn. Danger Mouse, like Basil of The Great Mouse Detective, lives on Baker Street in London. And… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One
…a great gag: in close up we see the mouse running from his opponent. The camera cuts back and we see that the cat has already caught the mouse and… |
