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Entries Tagged as 'Animation'

The Iron Giant (1999)

April 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments

 
Synopsis
As Sputnik orbits Earth in the year 1957, something from outer space plummets through the eye of a storm and lands in the waters off the coast of “Rockwell,” Maine. The […]

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Tags: Animation · Based on novel · Military · Mother/son relationship · No opening credits · Paranoia · Small town · Waitress

Frida (2002)

September 26th, 2007 · 3 Comments

“Miramax is brilliant at publicizing its successes, but it’s even more brilliant at burying its failures,” said Dennis Rice, their former president of marketing. Miramax Films was notorious for test screening its movies - often in malls in New Jersey - and barely releasing the ones that scored poorly. Some went straight to video, even […]

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Tags: Animation · Based on book · Bathtub scene · Dreams and visions · Master and pupil · Road trip · Unconventional romance

Ghost In The Shell (1995)

February 9th, 2007 · 3 Comments

In 2029, Major Motoko Kusanagi spies on a building, where a foreign diplomat conspires with a hacker to seek asylum in his country. The hacker is wanted to fix a “bug” in something called Project 2501. As police from another section raid the room, Kusangi takes off her clothes, jumps from the roof and employing […]

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Tags: Animation

Princess Mononoke (1997)

February 8th, 2007 · 3 Comments

As Japan moves from medieval times and into the modern world, teenage prince Ashitaka saves his village from attack by a demon, a giant boar rampaging through the forest, afflicted by a curse. Ashitaka is scarred on his right […]

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Tags: Animation