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Little King and Bravestarr's best, plus hi-def gripes
Good mornin’! We jump in the wayback machine for a trip to the early 1930s to start this week, taking in the delightfully animated adventures of The Little King, a… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume Two!
…ghostly foes, from the darkest jungles to the loneliest castles, in the final 33 episodes of the popular show from the 1980s. The Sweatbox Review: Filmation’s Ghostbusters – the original… |
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Hoo-Ray! Classic, really-for-real Disney in Hi-Def! Plus TMNT!
…appear to be keeping the big-name, hit titles coming while holding back the crown jewels of The Incredibles and particularly the Toy Story duo (out in 2009/10, anyone?) for maximum… |
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Birdman, Terabithia, and – finally – contest winners!
…much, but it came across as being heartfelt, authentic and having been made with real thought; the DVD’s extras, including a worthy featurette on the themes and inspirations for the… |
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Disney's Pixar-release Tuesday! Plus: is Bee Movie really a B-movie?
As promised, we have the lucky winning names to announce for our Disney/Pixar giveaways. The reader with a DVD copy of Pixar Short Films Collection on the way to them… |
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“Life is like a hurricane…”: DuckTales; plus Sonic and Snow White at 70!
…Underground contest gone up to win one of five copies of Shout Factory’s new multi-disc set. Around the web, DVD Active has posted the cover art for the ludicrous The… |
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Walt Disney Treasures…live again!
…the early innovations of the Alice Comedies and the phenomenal success of the Mouse. The new The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit is perhaps one of the most important… |
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Underdog (live-action movie)
…maybe in the Set Up options? Uh-uh. I finally found the way to access the intended framing was via the AUDIO menu – of course! In one of the oddest… |
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It's The AristoCats, Charlie Brown! Plus contest winners!
…as the five winners in the Ten Commandments Giveaway. Congratulations to all, and if you’d like to be in the running to grab a DVD or two, don’t forget our… |
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Ready for Jack Skellington on Blu-ray Disc? The future looks cool, but watch out for that tree!!
…please fans”, Rand notes the adequate audio and video and the attractive book-type package, saying that “the inclusion of the two original George and Super Chicken pilots is the icing… |
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Back Under The Sea, plus Filmation's DC Super Heroes!
…cheat: apart from popping up in the into to the Justice League cartoons in the set, he’s actually absent from any of the stories, so if you’re a classic Aquafan… |
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Where's WALL•E? Right here!
…go right here! Although my comments are aimed at the regular DVD edition, there’s our usual comprehensive coverage of the set’s bonus features, including the new short BURN•E and Leslie… |
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Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter & The Wolf (2006)
…to grip the viewer and pull their involvement into the story. Much of the success of the visuals is down to the look and feel, of course, and here the… |
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Encrico Casarosa's Venice Chronicles, plus new reviews!
…he celebrated Ratatouille‘s arrival in theaters via a discussion with the film’s storyboard artist Enrico Casarosa. One of the things Enrico mentioned was his personal project The Venice Chronicles, a… |
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Snow White: The Characters And Legacy Of The First And Fairest Of Them All!
…back in its day, the Titanic of the time: nothing less than the most successful film in screen history! The prestigious American Film Institute places it within its Top 10… |
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The Day The Earth Stood Still: Blu-ray Disc Special Edition
…of an apocalyptic future and more the instigator. The rest of the cast don’t measure up so well: Jennifer Connelly, far from the sweetheart many fell in love with in… |
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Animated Views 2.0 is here!
…a companion reviews and interviews site, Animated-Views.com, in 2006, which has continued to flourish. In 2008, when I met up with two of my co-conspirators in the Animated News &… |
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20th Century Fox presents World’s Tallest Scrat!
…the Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs Three-Disc Combo Pack (Blu-ray, DVD and a Digital Copy) is available now and provides hours of extra fun for the entire family including… |
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Walt’s Museum, a drab Muppet Christmas, plus more Up!
…appropriate tribute to the old Mousetro. Not such cheerful news to report is the results of the Muppets returning to the Christmas genre for the DVD release of their 2008… |
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Pixar leads this week’s CG pack; plus a Fantastic Fox!
…you’ve come to the wrong place. The inventiveness of the artists in creating a world filled with constructs made from natural things is wonderfully captured on Blu-ray. The team of… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 2
…a desert island in Sea-Saw. THE JETSONS – After already being over-represented in the last wave (appearing on both the 1960s and 1970s sets) The Jetsons come back yet again… |
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Pixar and Princess rule our latest updates!
…(and omissions) in the Blu-ray authoring. Celebrating Up‘s landing on Blu-ray and DVD is the film’s story artist Enrico Casarosa, who speaks exclusively to Jeremie about the development of the… |
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DC Universe Original Movie Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths arrives February 23, 2010
…and Gina Torres, the 2-Disc and BD releases include DC Showcase: The Spectre, the first in a series of shorts to be included on select DC Universe releases. To save… |
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Sleeping Beauty nods off back to the vault
In addition to the previously announced Disney titles retiring from their current DVD pressings, the Studio has added The Jungle Book (DVD) and Sleeping Beauty (DVD and Blu-ray) Platinum Editions… |
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Iron Man: Armored Adventures: Volume 2
…“A Day in the Life” (1:39). In this short clip, Iron Man talks about a day in the life of a super hero including the mundane things and the saving… |
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Celebrate Valentines with Winnie The Pooh – Winner Announced!
…entire family from The New Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh! In Catch The Love Bug Game, flying love bugs are on the loose in the Hundred Acre Wood and it’s… |
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Super Friends: Season One, Volume One
…he was not even mentioned in the opening of the show, which only proclaimed “four” of the world’s greatest heroes). The opening, incidentally, did verbally identify the team as the… |
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Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 4
…no inserts in this set. Ink And Paint: There are two aspect ratios included in this short. The first 11 shorts are featured in the standard 1.33:1 aspect ratio of… |
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The Lord Of The Rings (1978) Blu-ray clip: “In The Darkness, Bind Them”
…the Rings will cast its spell over the entire family! The deluxe edition also features a never-before-seen, 30-minute in-depth interview with legendary director Ralph Bakshi entitled Forging Through The Darkness:… |
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The Lord Of The Rings (1978) Blu-ray clip: “The Chase”
…the Rings will cast its spell over the entire family! The deluxe edition also features a never-before-seen, 30-minute in-depth interview with legendary director Ralph Bakshi entitled Forging Through The Darkness:… |
