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Oscar interviews, site updates and new reviews!
…The Departed in its second week, and other new releases The Prestige and Babel. It’s reported that strong sales of their hit movie Over The Hedge weren’t quite enough to… |
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Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron
…that they mightn’t have made it. As it is, the score almost lifts them up and carries them safely across – no danger, no suspense. It would have given more… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two
…it is! By way of interesting comparisons, the new ratio allowed Hanna and Barbera the opportunity to revisit several of their previous shorts. It seems that most of the animation… |
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Peanuts Deluxe Holiday Collection
…ever happen to Charles Schulz and Peanuts— and yet it never aired. No network ever agreed to play it, until it was re-edited and re-formed years later. However, it did… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…through Frank and Ollie’s notes to pencil testing. Although it firmly belongs here on this DVD, it’s a shame that it, or a similar feature, couldn’t have been included on… |
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Cars: Ultimate Gift Pack
…that seems to have “more” of everything in it. It’s certainly the most commercial and pop-culture heavy of the Pixar releases, and though I wouldn’t offend it by saying it… |
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Cars
…expands upon an idea from that moment anyway. It’s fun and breezy, with a killer post-credit end gag, but feels more like the bonus promotional item that it really is,… |
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Fantastic Four: The Complete 1994-95 Animated Series
…are dull, the direction uninspired, and overall the presentation is bland. It could have been much worse, but it hurts more here because it actually looks like they were trying… |
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South Park: The Complete Twelfth Season
…as ever. It may not be the water cooler speaking point it once was, but when the show hits a subject hard it does so without holding back anything whatsoever,… |
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Cultoons! Volume 2: Animated Education
…the Technicolor values give it a sheen it otherwise wouldn’t have had. The short’s title takes its cue from its fairytale land setting, wherein the disruptive Discourtesy and Carelessness, looking… |
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Oscar shortlist finalists for animated shorts, visual effects, and music announced
…RBG A Place Called Slaughter Race from Ralph Breaks the Internet OYAHYTT from Sorry to Bother You Shallow from A Star Is Born Suspirium from Suspiria The Big Unknown from… |
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Frozen II
…comparing it with its better predecessor, it doesn’t fare well. The beginning of the movie is filled with way too much exposition. Characters go on and on telling us backstory… |
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The new Lego Movie 2 trailer builds on the jokes from the first film
…quite a bit more about the plot. For those who would rather see it in a theater, the preview is expected to be shown on the big screen with Ralph… |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
…The filmmakers took one long story and just arbitrarily cut it down the middle. Despite its massive runtime, the entire movie is just a big setup for part two. There… |
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First look at Netflix’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance returns to the world of Gelflings
…caliber that will provide textures and range to the puppetry performances that are the heart of the series,” Jim Henson Company CEO Linda Henson said. “It is thrilling to see… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…of material, but understandable for space reasons. Still, it’s better than how we saw it last time, split in to two parts on a previous Golden Collection set, or how… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…it marked a definite point when Disney animation seemed as dead as its villain’s army of skeleton corpses. With animation on the block at the Disney Studios, the division turned… |
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Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton
…scene, what it would be, how it would look and how it would sound. We even considered using a boy’s choir for a short while. I eventually wrote a version… |
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Annie Award nominees for 2013 films revealed
…Justin Time – Guru Studio • Peter Rabbit – Nickelodeon Animation Studio Best Animated TV/Broadcast Production For Children’s Audience • Adventure Time – Cartoon Network Studios • Beware the Batman… |
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Annie Awards nominations for 2014 films revealed
…year and I am excited to say it’s going to be a great awards ceremony. We added a new category to the mix – Best Character Animation in a Video… |
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Animator/Director Nassos Vakalis invites us to his Dinner for Few
…certain kind of political government. But to me, it is not the type of the “system” or “government” that interests me the most but rather its failure to function as… |
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The Lego Batman Movie
…to admit it, that last rule is a rule because the Dark Knight has a fear of getting too close to people after losing his parents. But in The Lego… |
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Man can talk to the animals in the Doolittle trailer
The first trailer for Doolittle is now online, and you can check it out in the player above. The film stars Robert Downey Jr. as the the titular doctor, along… |
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Watch the latest trailer for Kubo and the Two Strings
…talents of Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Ralph Fiennes, George Takei, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Brenda Vaccaro, Rooney Mara, and Matthew McConaughey. Kubo and the Two Strings comes to life on August 19…. |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…that it made, even if it arguably didn’t feel “big enough” compared to Infinity War as it saved almost all of its fireworks for the final reel (although, to be… |
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Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season Two
…good, but we all knew it had the potential to become so much better. And that’s because we knew it was going to get BIGGER. At the conclusion of the… |
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D23 Expo 2019 Exclusive
…events make the long wait in line – even an overnight stay at the convention center – well worth it. I actually like that they hold it every two years… |
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Kubo And The Two Strings
…might have had it, often finding itself in the idea itself than its execution, although there’s no denying it’s certainly an assured debut for a first time helmer that suggests… |
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Exclusive D23 Expo 2015 Recap
…share the opinion of many, though, that it will be interesting to see how it differentiates itself from last year’s well-received The Book of Life, which I liked. Coco is… |
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Animation legend Dale Baer passes away at 70
…films and commercials. Baer’s most notable credit was as the supervising animator of Yzma for The Emperor’s New Groove. In sync to a delightful performance by Eartha Kitt, Baer’s work… |
