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ReThink Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol (3D) -- Don't Get Scrooged

Jonathan Kim | Posted 11.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jim Carrey, Robert Zemeckis, A Christmas Carol, Disney, Gary Oldman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Colin Firth, Animation, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

I found parts of A Christmas Carol, which is being marketed exclusively to kids with Disney's promotional muscle, to be much more upsetting than anything in Where the Wild Things Are.

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Launching Woodstock -- the Film Festival!

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 10.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Documentary, Woodstock, Catskills, Film, Woodstock Film Festival, Lucy Liu, Animation, Richard Kroehling, New York News
Stewart Nusbaumer

The Woodstock Film Festival will soon be host to Lucy Liu, Woody Harrelson and a host of 150 films, shorts, animations and panels.

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Toronto Film Fest Day 3: Cartoons, Cads and Commies

Michael Giltz | Posted 09.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Oscar Wilde, Toronto Film Festival, Leon Trotsky, Disney, Film, Movies, Cinema, Animation, Capitalism Movie, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Tomorrow is just a train wreck of competing film screenings. I interview Vera Farmiga at 10:20 for the excellent Up In The Air. But then what?

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DVDs -- Don't Be Conned: Check Out "Duplicity"

Michael Giltz | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: World of Warcraft. Julia Roberts, Documentaries, Astro Boy, Movies, Dvds, Animation, Osamu, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

This week in DVD releases: A clever, sexy and adult caper about two opposing corporate spies who are working together to scam their employers. Maybe.

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Ponyo: Finally, A Great Family Movie

Maria Rodale | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Japanese, Kids, Movies, Cinema, Animation, Ponyo Movie Review, Family, Living News
Maria Rodale

If you haven't seen it in the theatres yet, Ponyo, a new Japanese animated film by Hayao Miyasaki, is one of the rare gems of a movie that the whole family will enjoy, and that is worth seeing on the big screen.

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Hayao Miyazaki's "Ponyo on the Cliff:" A Huffington Post Review

Eric Lurio | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hayao Miyazaki, Children's Cinema, Disney, Anime, Animation, Cult of Cute, Ponyo, Entertainment News
Eric Lurio

Much has been written about the Japanese "cult of the cute". The great animation director Hayao Miyazaki has used this cult to create one of the more disturbing monsters in cinematic history.

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DVDS: New Miss Marple Doesn't Slay Me and More

Michael Giltz | Posted 09.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: TV Shows, Agatha Christie, Disney, Love Boat, Miss Marple, Dvds, Animation, Project Runway, Sherlock Holmes, Love-Boat, Heidi Klum, Race to Witch Mountain, Amazon.com, Ballerina, Tigger, Tim Gunn, Sherlock-Holmes-Robert-Downey-Jr, Netflix, The Soloist, Project-Runway-Season-5, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

The Soloist was oscar bair but no one was nibbling. Down on his luck Downey helps talented but homeless Foxx in this TV movie-ready story.

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DVDs -- Life On Mars and Those Clever Brits

Michael Giltz | Posted 08.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: British TV, Godard, Shane West, Dvds, Movies, Bill Plympton, Life on Mars, Animation, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Life On Mars is one more terrific example of how the Brits do TV so well, especially drama.

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"Ryan Seacrest Superhero" Newswitness News (Video)

Marc Singer | Posted 10.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Video, Newswitness News, Michael Jackson, Ebay, Ryan Seacrest, Superheroes, Monkey Cartoon, Anderson Cooper, Superman, Michael-Jackson-Diprivan, Spiderman, Barack Obama, Text Messaging, Texting, Animation, Gay Rights, Michael Jackson Death, Cnn, Auschwitz, Monkey, Monkeys, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Aquaman, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, John Stewart, David Letterman, Comedy News
Marc Singer

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In Pixar's Up, Two Chairs Mean the World (SPOILERS)

Mark Blankenship | Posted 07.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Symbolism, Animated Films, Pixar, Disney, Film, Cartoon, Movies, Comedy, Animation, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

I never thought I'd cry while wearing 3-D glasses.

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Pixar Throws Down, with Up

Paul Snyder | Posted 07.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Warner Bros, Walt Disney, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Up, 3-D Movies, Bob Peterson, Merchandise, Mgm, Cars, The Incredibles, Pixar, Partly Cloudy, Studios, Animation, Coraline, Pete Docter, Cgi, Ed Asner, Toy Story, Ageism, Disney, Entertainment News
Paul Snyder

Fifteen years since the release of Toy Story, Pixar has made it very clear that they would like to be considered a movie studio in the classic sense: their films all seem to illustrate a singular creative perspective.

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Cannes 2009 Day Nine: Parents, Palestinians and Panic

Michael Giltz | Posted 06.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Belgium, Palestinian, Drama, Israel, Canada, Gay, Cannes Film Festival, Comedy, Animation, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

The critical consensus is as strong as I've ever seen at Cannes: the best film of the Festival is Une Prophete. Mind you, that doesn't mean the jury will pick it.

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Cannes 2009 Day One: "Up" Review

Michael Giltz | Posted 06.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Disney, Up, Pixar, Animation, Cannes Film Festival, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Cannes kicked off with a gentle, sweet even sublime film: Pixar's Up.

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DVDs -- Get Ready for Star Trek

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Rodgers & Hammerstein, Bluray, Musicals, Dvds, Movies, Tv, Animation, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

If you're chomping at the bit for the May 8 premiere of Star Trek, perhaps the best way to prepare is Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1.

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NYT Blows It On Pixar, The Safest Bet In Hollywood

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New York Times, Cartoons, Controversy, Up, Pixar, Animation, Toy Story, Up the Movie, Walle, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

No studio, no director, no star has ever had the unbroken string of success that Pixar has enjoyed with every single film it's made from Toy Story in 1995 to 2008's Oscar-winning WALL-E.

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SuperNews: Emoticon War (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 04.27.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Emoticon War, Super News, Emoticons, Funny Videos, Animation, Supernews, Comedy News

As you may know, we love the Current show SuperNews! that took on Twitter in its season premier last Friday. Tonight it's keeping its focus on Web fa...

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DVDs -- Pinocchio Looks Better Than Ever

Michael Giltz | Posted 04.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Paul Rudd, Pinocchio, Dr. Who, Vampires, Emile Hirsch, Tom Baker, Sean Penn, Cracker, Robbie Coltrane, Harvey Milk, Dvds, Movies, South Park, Animation, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

He's had a major role in a string of terrific movies, dating back to Clueless all the way to Knocked Up. And now suddenly, he's the man: the lead in successful movies.

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Blu Ray Review: Wonder Woman (2009)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 03.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Comic Books, DC Comics, Entertainment, Warner Bros, Wonder Woman, Dvds, Movies, Animation, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

Exciting, funny, violent as hell, and displaying an almost angry feminist streak, Wonder Woman succeeds so well as a definitive origin story that it almost renders the eventual live-action movie a moot point.

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Exclusive clip from Warner Bros' new animated film: Wonder Woman (coming to DVD and Blu Ray March 3rd)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 03.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Wonder Woman, Entertainment, Warner Bros, Blu Ray, Dvd, Animation, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

Here is a brief, 1 minute video clip from the upcoming (and allegedly bad ass) Wonder Woman animated feature. It comes out on DVD and Blu Ray on Mar...

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Review: Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 02.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Politics, Review, Entertainment, War, Documentary, Waltz With Bashir, Israel, Movies, Animation, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

The tragic, violent true-life tale that concerns Waltz with Bashir is rendered even more powerful in animated form than it would likely have in live-action.

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Doomed To Repeat

Sheerly Avni | Posted 01.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ari Folman, Genocide, Palestinian, Middle East, Documentary, Israel, Movies, Animation, Tel Aviv, Therapy, Sabra and Shatilla, Animated Documentary, Ramallah, Refugee Camp Massacre, Dream Therapy, Entertainment News
Sheerly Avni

Documentary Waltz With Bashir owes much of its visual impact to the director Ari Folman's animation team, but its dramatic tension derives from Folman's own search for his missing memories.

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DVDs: The Rest Of The Year

Michael Giltz | Posted 01.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hbo, The Wire, Murnau, Dvds, TV Shows, Movies, Animation, Holiday Season Commentary, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Here are the top releases from December. Most of them are in the stores now but a few hit shelves in the next week. They saved some great stuff for the end of the year.

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DVDs: Ron Howard Vs. Ron Howard

Michael Giltz | Posted 01.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Steve Martin, TV Shows, Ron Howard, Wong Kar-Wai, Morgan Freeman, Paul Simon, Documentaries, Saturday Night Live, Dvds, Movies, Bill Murray, Animation, Arrested Development, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

With Frost/Nixon opening today in select cities, Universal has found the right time to celebrate director Ron Howard by releasing The Ron Howard Spotlight Collection. Which four movies of Ron Howard's do you think are his best?

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Freakazoid! This Weekday Afternoon Cartoon is Better Than You Remembered.

Alex Remington | Posted 11.20.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Freakazoid, Paul Rugg, Steven Spielberg, Jerry Lewis, Tom Ruegger, Marty Feldman, Looney Tunes, Warner Brothers, Amblin Entertainment, Comedy, Animaniacs, Animation, Freakazoid!, Referential Comedy, The Simpsons, Meta Humor, The Tick, Family Guy, Young Frankenstein, Tiny Toons, Entertainment News
Alex Remington

Stylistically somewhere between the great superhero parody The Tick and Marx Brothers-style vaudeville, Freakazoid! was absurd, nonsensical, but absolutely hilarious.

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Glenn Beck Is Now A Made Man

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Goodfellas, Mafia, Fox and Friends, Glen Beck, Roger Ailes, Animation, Roger Ailes Fox News, The Godfather, Sean Hannity, Satire, Ray Liotta, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Political Satire, Cartoon, Bill O'Reilly, Fox News Channel, Political Cartoons, Media News
Matthew Filipowicz

Glenn Beck has served the Republicans well, and so now, he gets his own show on the network that respects "fair and balanced" reporting the same way the actual Mafia respects the "law".

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