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Bee good: Jerry's animated debut is out today, plus good news for Gilliam, and I Am Beowulf!
…think I’ll end up being more accepting of the issues James assesses, having thoroughly enjoyed the film at the screening I was at. The jury is out on the Jerry-heavy… |
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Richie, Scooby, Caspian, Boba Fett…all in the same post!
…week, and how great it was to be joined by Jan Harlan, Brian Cook and Kubrick’s assistant Tony Frewin for a showing of the great man’s The Shining on Wednesday… |
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Ariel's Beginning's composers sing, and Open Season 2!?
…the composing pair and, though I didn’t care too much for the overall final result, it’s clear they both know and understand their art, and I have great faith in… |
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At the movies: Klaatu, Julien, Despereaux, a Transporter, Bolt and Delgo!
…played on TV in the run up to the recent release of Transporter 3 in theaters, but I found it to be great fun. Statham isn’t the sharpest thespian on… |
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Ben’s baaaa-aaaack!
…in a 32” Panasonic television, seeing as our old set also went on the fritz in the past few weeks. But…we’re off to a great start to the new year!… |
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Oscars, LaserDiscs, Lost Chords, and Wild animals!
…the technical Sound Mixing and Sound Editing categories (Pixar also gets a nod for their Short Film Presto). The Dark Knight likewise shows heavily in the technicals with seven nods… |
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New twists on Oliver, Poppins, Peanuts and Bugs' Looney Movie!
…the “just as good” You’re The Greatest, Charlie Brown, adding that it’s refreshing “to see some of the more non-holiday specials emerging”. Even better is the news that the release… |
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Snoopy! X-Men! The Calgary Expo!
…into a hotel near the airport, and got settled in for the night. Everybody’s favorite domehead. And R2D2. [Sorry Rand! – Ben] The Show The Expo was held on the… |
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Snow White week begins at AN&V!
…Jeremie Noyer has taken to the pages of The Disney Song Encyclopedia, a new compendium of the Studio’s many songs and the projects they were written for. Thomas Hischak and… |
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Spider-Man 3
…reminds me of the Christopher Reeve Superman films. The first set up the myth splendidly, while the second entries became more gritty, deeper affairs where the leading ladies discover the… |
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The Transformers: Season Two, Volume One (25th Anniversary Edition)
…Storyboard: The second season of The Transformers continues the success of the show’s inaugural season with new episodes featuring the continuing battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons. The season’s… |
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Michael Jackson’s This Is It
…event of the year (after the announcement of the This Is It London shows, the news of his untimely death, and the globally televised memorial funeral service), it struck me… |
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The Care Bears Movie
…they become family. Most of them are introduced in the first movie, and the rest are seen in the sequels or in the series. The Care Bears got a series… |
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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection
…is one of the pleasures of watching their films. Park, who started the pair’s first film while attending the National Film And Television School in the United Kingdom, brought the… |
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A London Rendezvous! Plus printable posters Up for grabs!
…caution to the wind and decided to meet up in person for the first time, marking the fifth anniversary of the site. The destination was San Diego’s annual Comic-Con, and… |
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Halo video game becomes animated disc debut
…bonus materials, including all the great extras from the 2-disc Special Edition as well as Halo: The Story so Far, an overview of the Halo universe up until the end… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…her to the real world. However, Randall has discovered the kid, and the longer she stays in their world, the better his chances remain that Sulley will be found out… |
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Pixar Short Films to debut on ABC Family
…manages to turn the tables. There’s Geri. And then there’s the other Geri. You’d swear they were twins who didn’t get along since birth. In reality, it’s only one very… |
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Plastic Man: The Complete Collection
…shows of Hanna-Barbera, and fondly remember the likes of Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, The Kwiki-Koala Show, The New Schmoo, the list is endless. Added to that was my interest in superheroes,… |
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The Art of Princess and the Frog: Down in New Orleans with author Jeff Kurtti
…the great Disney classics. But I prefer the way Ian Gooding puts it at the end of the book, saying that they were “trying to reinvent everything.” It’s not just… |
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Zorro, Zorro, Zorro…and memories of Richard Todd
…discuss his earlier Disney career, when he was the lead in Walt’s first forays into live-action with the historical epics The Story Of Robin Hood And His Merrie Men, The… |
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Yogi’s First Christmas
…on Richie Rich (The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show), movie monsters (Drak Pack) and the Fonz (The Fonz And The Happy Days Gang), but they also kept their sights on the characters… |
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The Princess and the Frog
…decision for this film. Despite the Cajun accents and the voodoo themes, what really sells the setting as New Orleans is the music. And while Menken is a great composer,… |
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Happy New Year and all the best for 2010!
…the 3D goggles would put the viewer onto Cameron’s planet of Pandora as if one were there, the film remains visually impressive enough, and whatever the extra dimensions, they wouldn’t… |
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Disney/Marvel brings Stan Lee into the fold
…them in the coming years. In addition to the huge creative opportunity this affords POW!, it also provides for the next positive stage in the expansion of the company itself.”… |
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Godzilla stomps back onto the big screen
…films worldwide. Legendary intends to approach the film and its characters in the most authentic manner possible. The company will, in the near future, announce a filmmaker to helm the… |
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The First Easter Rabbit: Deluxe Edition
…their name for this sometimes strange hand-animated origin of the Easter Bunny, but the results are rather crude and Warners’ disc is missing the “deluxe” element of the cover’s banner…. |
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Warner Archive: The Amazing Captain Nemo
…the case with one of the latest titles in the line, The Amazing Captain Nemo, the amazingly kitsch television movie that saw a limited theatrical release when a proposed TV… |
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Armageddon
…At La Ciotat Station, which created the myth of the then-stunned audience, seeing such sights on a screen for the first time, screaming out of the theater in panic! Destruction… |
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The Art of Toy Story 3: animation historian Charles Solomon tells about his “Favorite Toys”
…generous about sharing their memories of the earlier Toy Story films, as well as their thoughts on the new movie. I hope the Introduction helps readers understand the progress of… |
