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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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Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!

By tone | Published: July 1, 2009
Tapping into the Bible can lead into trouble for many who shake zealots out of their sleep. Jonathan Goldstein’s promotion of his new book, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!, is to be taken with a grain of salt as is the video. I read the book recently and enjoyed the re-working of some sillier notions [...]
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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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“Weird Al” Yankovic – Craigslist

By tone | Published: June 16, 2009
Did “Weird Al” Yankovic put an ad on Craigslist for a keyboardist? Wanted Ray Manzarek from the Doors to play on my latest album.(link)
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New Land of the Lost

By tone | Published: February 11, 2009
The World of Sid and Marty Krofft is once again gaining prominence this year with the feature film based on the cult TV series, Land of the Lost. The sibling duo Krofft brothers were born in Montreal and had a rich history in puppetry. The pair developed many TV series that still hold fond memories [...]
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Life In Technicolor ii Coldplay

By tone | Published: February 6, 2009
Coldplay’s newest video is simple and original while hitting the right chord with universal childlike wry. It’s void of semi nude gyrating female bodies, it’s fresh to see videos like this. Not too many times when music videos are catching attention like this. The music video is for their new single ‘Life In Technicolor ii’, [...]
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Cartoons DK

By tone | Published: January 7, 2009
Cartoons DK is a Danish group from the 90’s who emulated groups like  Aqua and Vengaboys to the extreme. A fun video yet at times out there. What were they thinking? The band consists of: Toonie (Vocals), Shooter (Guitar), Buzz (Bass) og Sponge (Saxophone), Puddy and Boop (Backing Vocals)
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Astro Boy Teaser Trailer

By tone | Published: November 21, 2008
There must be a cookie-cutter formula with CGI movies out there as of late. They all look alike. Astro Boy’s appearance in the 60’s was the building block of the Anime empire. The trailer is finally up and going and honestly I don’t know where it’s going. There [...]
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Schulz and Peanuts CD: A Biography

By tone | Published: October 20, 2007
Schulz and Peanuts CD: A Biography The audio version of the newest book on Charles Schulz is very compelling to listen to. With the latest wave of controversy of this book from the likes of the New York Times that trickled down to the blog-sphere. I am still [...]
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