Tag: Animation
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Rio
From the creators of Ice Age comes an animated musical comedy that moves to a decidedly warmer climate.
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A Cat in Paris (Alliance Française French Film Festival 2011)
House cat by day, prowling the rooftops of Paris by night: such is the life of a cat. This retro storybook of a film is the latest big animated film to come out of France from Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli, and it is playing here for the Alliance Française French Film Festival.
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‘Puss in Boots’ and ‘Kung Fu Panda 2’: 2011 in animation
Animation lovers of the world rejoice as Paramount sends new trailers for Puss in Boots and Kung Fu Panda 2. We also look at other forthcoming animated favourites coming this year, and by that we mean sequels and remakes.
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First Look: The Ballad of Nessie
Disney unveiled several stills from a forthcoming short, The Ballad of Nessie to screen with Winnie the Pooh later this year. We take a look at the stills, the pedigree of the forthcoming short and a brief history of Disney theatrical shorts.
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Rango
Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski turns his eye to animation with this novel take on the western. Featuring the voice talents of Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin and Bill Nighy to name but a few, it may be the most original animated film to come out this year.
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Finding Nemo (Australian Film Festival 2011)
REVIEW: One of Pixar’s most enduring animated features, it gets local love for using Sydney as a backdrop and a shark named Bruce.
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Gnomeo & Juliet
The greatest love story every told was first performed in the late sixteenth century by the bard we all know and love as Billy Shakespeare. Quite prolific in his day, he’s become even more so with the advent of talking pictures, and what is arguably his most famous play has been adapted countless times in…
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Tangled
When Walt Disney and his animators created Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, it was labelled “Walt’s Folly”. The idea that audiences would want to watch an entire feature length animated film was preposterous to pundits, yet its instant success led to the foundation of Walt Disney Studios and an empire that spans the cinema,…
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