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Zootopia
…of the art. Any moral to be found in them is in service to the story they wanted to tell — unlike here where the story is in service to… |
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April And The Extraordinary World
Multiple Production Companies (2015), GKids/Universal Studios (August 2, 2016), 1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD, 107 mins, 1.85:1 ratio, DTS Master Audio 5.1, Rated PG, Retail: $34.98 Storyboard: A teenage girl,… |
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Beauty And The Beast: 25th Anniversary Walt Disney Signature Collection
…DTS-HD Master Audio, Rated G, Retail: $39.99 Storyboard: Just before one of the Studio’s new-fangled live-action remakes comes along, celebrate the 25th anniversary of Disney’s only animated film to be… |
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Composer Toby Chu gives us an appetite for Pixar’s Bao
…Canada. To score that incredible short, director Domee Shi appealed to composer Toby Chu, who imagined the most delicate and refined music to accompany that unlikely story. Toby is a… |
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Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season Four
…but the Rebellion as well. Though the newer story elements introduced in the latter half of the season threatened to dampen my enthusiasm for the storyline, I still found this… |
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The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn
…starts to participate in the story, just like the audience, I hope, in terms of investment. At the end of the story, he becomes part of this family. That arc… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…tried to do on any part of the story that deals with Din and Li Na, which is kind of a friendship-romance-present-day-story, we balanced that kind of thematic identity and… |
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Oscar nominees for 2021 films announced
…Bradley Cooper, Producers • The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier, Producers • West Side Story – Steven Spielberg and… |
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Elemental
…first feature started things off when they asked the question about toys. In the 2000s, it was cars that got the treatment. The formula continued in the 2010s when they… |
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The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
…was as we reveal the results of our annual Reader’s Choice poll! The big story of the year, really, may have been Disney’s so-called “comeback” after a disappointing 2023 (which… |
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Pixar's \\Tin Toy\\ and WB's \\One Froggy Evening\\ added to the National Film Registry
John Lasseter’s groundbreaking short film \\Tin Toy\\ and Warner Brothers’ \\One Froggy Evening\\, the short that gave birth to Michigan J. Frog, have been added to the {{link http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/filmnfr.html National… |
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More toy updates
The Toy section of About.com has the rundown on some of the Madagascar toys about to be released and Amazon.co.uk is already selling Madagascar plushes. Also, Toy Globe has some… |
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Toy biz more than child's play
In an summarization of recent toy sales, MSNBC notes that with her Fairytopia line, including computer animated films, Barbie found her domestic popularity down 21 percent in the first quarter…. |
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Challenge Of The Gobots: The Original Miniseries
…market by an American toy maker, licensed from shape changing robot toys produced in Japan. Tonka introduced the Gobots in 1984 (based on Japan’s “Machine Robo” line), the same year… |
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Bravestarr: The Movie
…other Filmation shows of the past, this one was to present morals at the end of the story, clarifying for younger viewers what we had learned in each story. While… |
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The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
…story” written by Jerry Siegel in 1961, though it also has interesting similarities to the 1990s Death Of Superman comics storyline. Superman apparently has turned green and died as a… |
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Hoodwinked DVD details
…every legend lies the real and surprising story of what actually happened. Genius Products, Inc. (OTCBB:GNPI), Kanbar Entertainment and The Weinstein Company retell the classic story of Red Riding Hood… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 1
Various (1959-1969), Warner Home Video (May 26, 2009), 2 discs, 308 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital Mono 1.0, Not Rated, Retail: $26.98 Storyboard: There was… |
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The Amazing Screw-On Head
…has only a couple of items, but they satisfy. A Storyboard Comparison (2:14) shows a scene with the storyboard at the top of the screen, while the bottom of the… |
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The Great Mouse Detective
…Storyboard: Basil of Baker Street leaps into action and jumps to the rescue when young Olivia Flaversham’s toy maker father is kidnapped. Hot on criminal mastermind Professor Ratigan’s trail, Basil… |
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams
…And as if the moral of the story got lost in the substandard, workmanlike storytelling along the way, the Princesses both pop up for a confirmation at the end of… |
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A Miser Brothers’ Christmas
…2001, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys was released by Goodtimes. While not really a sequel to the classic Rankin/Bass cartoon, the story attempted to create… |
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Stop-Motion Marvels!
…characters, with impressive animation, fun gags, and a good story. Toyland Ice Capades: The Adventures Of Mugsy (1917) is a six-minute narrated story of two young boys and a little… |
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Robotech: Complete Original Series
Harmony Gold/Tatsunoko Productions (1984), A&E (2011), 17discs, 2028 mins. plus supplements, 1.33:1 ratio, Dolby Digital 5.1, Not Rated, Retail: $99.95 Storyboard: In the distant year 1999, an alien spaceship crash-lands… |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…creatures tend to get in trouble as soon as they have a chance. It is a story that is entertaining both for children who observe Smurfs being naughty when Papa… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…twice, whether it was their flagship Ice Age series, the wildly creative toy box world of Robots, or the spectacularly colorful Horton Hears A Who! What a shame that their… |
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Pinchcliffe races home: Caprino Studios Collection on DVD!
…the set, extremely faithful to the original (yes, with the intended ending intact), and expertly combining live-action and animation, where Caprino’s exceptional puppet designs really fit the story of toys… |
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Caprino animation DVD contest winners announced
…where Caprino’s exceptional puppet designs really fit the story of toys come to life and a brave soldier’s battle to protect a ballerina figurine from an evil jack-in-the-box goblin. The… |
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Broadway Tarzan battling story problems?
…story, responding to the responses of his readers. According to the article, the main problem with the new Tarzan musical is not necessarily in the seating, but in the story…. |
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WALL-E
…be no question that Pixar is the best at what they do. So let’s just take it as given that the animation is superb (and it is), that the story… |
