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How to Train Your Dragon, in 3-D!!!!
Having read Gilligan’s advice over on the Retrospace blog yesterday, I’m going to try and up the ante over here, seeing as so far Fantazmigoriuh has been limping along. I update my tumblelog almost...
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Review – Serious Business: The Art And Commerce Of Animation In America
I got this book for Christmas and although I read Googled first, I was excited to get into this immediately after. Covering the US animation scene from its beginnings to sometime in the late 1990s, I...
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Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Via Cinemablend.com First of all, I like Wes Anderson; the Royal Tenenbaums being perhaps my favourite of all his work. He certainly is a unique fimmaker who makes makes movies that, at lest in this...
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Animation Art: A Review Of The Book That Changed My Life
OK, perhaps that’s a bit of an exaggeration. It didn’t so much change my life as pop up in a pretty unusual place (a Borders in Bowie, Maryland). I like to think that a certain amount of fate was...
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Anomaly Appraisal: Tales from Earthsea
I read the announcement a few days ago over on Cartoon Brew but having bought the DVD back in 2008, it doesn’t matter that much to me. Having said that, I’d thought I’d post my thoughts on a movie...
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Animaly Appraisal: Hercules Part I
Sooooo, having just finished watching Disney’s Hercules, here are some initial thoughts that will be concluded tomorrow. Released in 1997, Hercules continues the Disney tradition of releasing a...
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Anomaly Appraisal: Hercules Part II
This is a continuation of yesterday’s Part I, where I covered the plot and music. Today I’m going to cover the animation, the characters and the character’s designs. First off, the animation is the...
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A Review of 2010 And My Favourite Film of The Year
Via: Cartoon Brew With an upcoming hiatus over Christmas (because there’s not internet where I’m heading for the week), this may well be the last post of 2010, so it seems appropriate to have a glance...
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Why Your Bookshelf Was Made To Hold “Directing Animation” By David B. Levy
Bill Plympton's Cover giving Mona ideas. They say God created the earth in seven days although I have a sneaking feeling that if he hired David Levy, he would have got the job done in five, and still...
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Anomaly Appraisal: Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest
Via: The Internet Movie Poster Awards Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest is one of those films that I must have seen when I was younger. I was smack in the middle of the target audience at the time and I...
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Anastasia and The Swan Princess: Two Decent Films Worth A Look
All I can say is that this was a damned tricky post to write! I watched both Anastasia and The Swan Princess last week as I had never seen them before and while one left me pleasantly surprised, the...
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Cy Schneider on Children’s Television: How 20 Years Really Is A Long Time
The book is dedicated to Walt Disney, the greatest Pied Piper of the all. A couple of weeks ago, I picked up Cy Schneider’s book, ‘Children’s Television’ at a used book sale. I didn’t know much about...
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Guest Post: Kung Fu Panda 2
Today’s post is a guest review of Kung Fu Panda 2 by Emmett Goodman. Emmett is a graduate from the Pratt Institute in New York and is a notable member of ASIFA-East. His personal review blog is here...
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Guest Post: A Review of A Monster in Paris
I’m very excited to present this special review by talented Irish animator Nichola Kehoe of A Monster in Paris, which she recently saw in Ireland. It’s 1910 and unlikely duo Emile and Raoul...
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In Praise of the BFI Spirited Away book
Via: Good Reads Admittedly (and ashamedly), the Spirited Away book by Andrew Osmond published by the British Film Institute (BFI) sat in my cart on Amazon for quite literally years before I finally got...
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A Review of Zombie Simpsons by The Dead Homer Society
Image (naturally) yoinked from The Dead Homer Society A couple of years ago (and the exact circumstances escape me), I stumbled across the Dead Homer Society and have bee a loyal reader ever since....
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Brave Review: Merida is Not The Feminist Heroine Many Were Expecting
Via: Nerdy Feminist “You’d better say it was excellent.” Such was the direction I received from the fiancée for this review. However it is something I simply cannot do for the entire film. For parts?...
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The Typewritten Review of The Legend of Korra
Click through to read the only typewritten review of The Legend of Korra known to exist, complete with genuine spelling and grammatical errors. And follow me on tumblr while you’re there
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Paranorman Review: A Good But Not Great Film
Last night we went to see Paranorman. Admittedly I hadn’t read or seen all that much about it before heading in (which is unusual but it happens) so while I was prepared for a Coraline-like experience...
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A Monster in Paris Review
Via: Shout! Factory Finally! After only more than a year did I finally get the chance to watch this film. Long did it tease me with its development, release in Europe and sneak peeks in Canada....
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I Know That Voice and You Can Too
Voice acting is one of the more mysterious parts of the animation production process and while luminaries like Mel Blanc managed to garner a high degree of public awareness, there is a legion of...
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New Releases: Different Sides of the Animation Coin
One of the trends to expect in 2018 mentioned in last week’s post is about the rise of indie animation and the plethora of choices it will bring along with it. Shout! Factory has two new releases which...
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Wolfwalkers Review: Another One for the Ages
Eleven and half years after seeing the first film in Tomm Moore’s Celtic trilogy, The Secret of Kells, it was time to watch the last film in said trilogy. Wolkwalkers tells the story of English girl...
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Earwig and the Witch Review
Controversy, confusion, bemusement. Which word describes the latest film from Studio Ghilbi? Earwig and the Witch marks a bold departure for the Japanese studio that’s ruffled a few feathers but is...
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