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Peter Pan Giveaway – Winner!
We teamed with Walt Disney Home Entertainment to offer one lucky winner a copy of the classic release of Peter Pan on DVD in a 2-disc Platinum Edition set! The… |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Great Clubhouse Hunt
…away from this tradition for the first time, Mickey’s Great Clubhouse Hunt promotes the characters as they appear in the production on the front of the sleeve, and the initial… |
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Happily N’Ever After: Widescreen Edition
…the picture do nothing but pull the audience out of the story in a flash, the majority of them wondering where they’ve seen the gags before (and in much better… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
…housed just like the three other titles in the December 2006 wave of Treasures, in a double-width keepcase inside an embossed tin. The information sheet featuring the set’s contents is… |
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The Best Of Casper: Volumes 1 and 2
…they are presented in the “the aspect ratio of their original television exhibition”, so someone isn’t getting the right emails within the company! Design is cut and paste between the… |
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The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney
…intact, and the informational segments only help to place them into historical context without interfering with the films themselves. Compilations such as these are really what cartoon connoisseurs should be… |
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The Reef
…sound overly pushed forward, nesting in the track appropriately, pleasantly letting the vocals be heard while the music and effects do their jobs. The Foleys are as involved as they… |
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The AristoCats Special Edition – Winners Announced!
…mischievous kittens and abandons them in the French countryside. Soon, they’re being escorted home by the charming Thomas O’Malley, a rough-and-tumble alley cat, who takes them to his pad along… |
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Get Enchanted with our behind the scenes exclusives!
…to many of the principal crew for a series of exclusive behind the scenes interviews, including composer Alan Menken, animation director James Baxter and the director of Enchanted himself, Kevin… |
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The Classic Cabelleros Collection Contest – Winners!
…and his artists are inspired to create a decidedly loopy llama… …And in Chili, the artists gain more inspiration – and a little perspiration! – while Walt joins in the… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure Special Edition
…sterling work in keeping the block-colored styling from the first film in the backgrounds, but the attempt at retaining the pencil look in the characters’ line drawings is somewhat marred… |
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2006; summer 2007; Disney Blu-Ray…
Before I slip into today’s post, I just wanted to point you in the direction of James R Whitson’s review for Happily N’Ever After, our first bit of currently-in–theaters coverage… |
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Flushed Away reviewed, plus win a copy!
Just as I was about to get our full review of the Flushed Away DVD up on Friday, the Internet Gods played havoc with my connection and decided to cut… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…door of my home theater. The gags come thick and fast, the puns would be enough to make the real Dracula spin in his grave, and the songs – including… |
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Peter Pan's color catastrophe; and cropped Disney features
…I love the film, the DVD left me wishing it had “never-never happened”), I touched upon the poor restoration of the image, including comments on the lack of sharpness and… |
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American Legends (featuring John Henry)
…recouping their investment. When the film was finished, there was then the issue of actually releasing it, with the main reason given for its long no-show as it being a… |
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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… |
