Category Archives: Movies

Walt Dali

By tone | Published: July 3, 2009
Hollywood had a love affair with Salvador Dali and a friendship with Walt Disney was nurtured to a point where they worked on a potential short film called Destino. The project was abandoned in 1946, only 18 seconds of test footage was created. The project re-surfaced in 1999 for Fantasia 2000, Disney’s nephew Roy Edward [...]
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District 9

By tone | Published: July 3, 2009
The alien invasion movie “District 9” produced by Peter Jackson is slowly making waves without any fanfare. This could be the sleeper of the year. It has shades of Alien Nation made in 1988 and the series spawned from the movie. District 9 is a segregation movie veiled in sci-fi themes. A fear of the [...]
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Badly Drawn Roy

By tone | Published: July 1, 2009
Badly Drawn Roy is romp of a documentary created by Alan and Frank Shannon, produced by Dublin’s Jam Media for RTE, Ireland’s public broadcasting channel. See part two. The film is set in a working class suburb of Dublin. Roy, Ireland’s only animated character was born into an ordinary ‘live action’ family. This fly on [...]
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Ponyo Movie Trailer

By tone | Published: June 24, 2009
Seems everybody is on the doomsday bandwagon. The world is a mess, who will clean it up. Will an ocean little child save the world? This rich laced movie of symbolism is one to be enjoyed by all generations. Legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki’s new movie Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea is given [...]
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Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection

By tone | Published: June 22, 2009
Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection Between 1963 – 1967 Chuck Jones handled the Tom and Jerry franchise. His Tom had an uncanny resemblance to his later creation, the Grinch, and the swift Jerry put on a little more weight for this series. This show had a slight psychedelic influence in the art and [...]
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Tim Burton’s ‘Wonderland’

By tone | Published: June 22, 2009
I am not a fan of Tim Burton and his movies. He has a cookie cutter formula since Edward Scissorhands to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that keeps replicating itself over and over again. Alice in Wonderland is no different than those movies, you could say he was making Alice all these years with those [...]
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Jim Henson’s Wilkins Coffee

By tone | Published: June 16, 2009
Here is an oddity blast from the past from the mind of Jim Henson. This is the breeding ground of ideas way before Sesame Street and the Muppet Show ever came to germinate. Who needs power drinks, Wilkins Coffee really delivers a wallop. What were they thinking? Have we sanitized our commercials to a degree [...]
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Jack Lord as Captain Kirk

By tone | Published: June 13, 2009
Jack Lord as Captain Kirk on Star Trek. It almost happened if the actor did not demand 50% profits from the show and also produce. Irked by such a notion both Gene Roddenberry and Desilu Studios nixed the actor. This opened the door for Montreal native, William Shatner. Who knows what would hold for [...]
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Donald Duck Turns 75

By tone | Published: June 9, 2009
The grandfather of quack is turning 75 this week. Having long used his senior card, Donald Duck is perhaps the first anti-hero and was created to be the nemesis of the one dimensional Mickey Mouse. From Daffy Duck, Disco Duck to Howard the Duck, Donald has inspired many ducks in all these years. He is [...]
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Beach Apes

By tone | Published: June 9, 2009
I would love to bring one of these to the beach. (link)
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