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Movie Review: Berkeley Breathed animates a Porcine Pet Bounty Hunter — “Hitpig!”
Any children’s cartoon built around an armed loner/bounty hunter named “Hitpig!” was always going to be a dubious undertaking. But it was created by longtime “Bloom County” cartoonist Berkely Breathed. So it’s worth pondering. His cracked, kid-friendly (allegedly) vision comes … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, animation, berkeley-breathed, comics, conservation, jason-sudeikis, lilly-singh, rainn-wilson, wildlife
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Movie Review: A Child’s turn as Robinson Crusoe in “Kensuke’s Kingdom”
“Kensuke’s Kingdom” is a simply but attractively animated film based on a Michael Morpurgo novel. The novel, in turn, is based on the classic tale “Robinson Crusoe,” here modernized to place a shipwrecked boy and his dog in tropical paradise, … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, books, film-review, japanese-wwii-survivor, literature, Reviews, robinson-crusoe
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Movie Review: Nature meets High Tech Nurture in Dreamworks’ charming “The Wild Robot”
The charms of “The Wild Robot” sneak up on you. A futuristic tale, the adaptation of Peter Brown’s kid-lit book summons up memories of the great animated films for children of the past. It was bit of a hard sell, … Continue reading
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