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Rogue One – The New Normal

Rogue One

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is released on Blu-Ray today, so we’ve taken the opportunity for a little love letter.

1977 was an important year for me. Firstly, it was the year I was born, so maybe important is a bit of an understatement. It’s the year Elvis died – we shared a month on the planet before his heart skipped away. And on May 25th, Star Wars was released in America.

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Zootopia Poster is full of Animal Puns

Zootopia

The direct of Zootopia, Byron Howard, has released the first poster for the movie. It seems to take place in a world with anthropomorphic animals. In a Disney movie. Weird, right? Is also seems like the primary industry in that world is pun manufacturing. Also weird for a Disney movie. There’s gotta be more to it, right? Some vast conspiracy.

We’ll find out just how deep this mystery runs next spring.

(source: [twitter](https://twitter.com/ByronPHoward/status/646725947228467200))

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Catchup Reviews: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, Big Hero 6, Dear White People, The F Word, and Horns

The Hunger Games: Mocking Jay

It’s December which means I have pretty much exactly no time to do anything lately but that hasn’t stopped me from seeing a couple of movies, just from writing them up in a timely manner.

But since I’ve seen so many you’re gonna get the shortest version of each of these reviews that I can muster.

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Big Hero 6 Trailer: Disney + Marvel + Animation = Smash Hit?

Big Hero 6

Disney Animation Studios has had a bit of a resurgence lately and this fall they’re pretty much going to cement the idea that they are the Disney of animation again with this collaboration with Marvel because both of those names plus a movie that looks like it might be great are going to be mean dolla dolla bills yo.

Or whatever the kids these days are saying. Let’s watch!

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Stop What You’re Doing And Watch This Beautiful Short By Ex-Disney Animator

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If, like me, you consider the high point of modern Disney movies to be all about Ariel, Beast, and Aladdin, then it turns out you’re a massive fan of Glen Keane. Over the course of 37 years Glen had a hand in 20 productions and now, two years after he left Disney, he’s made an animated short for Google’s Spotlight Series. It’s called *Duet*, and you should  watch it right now.

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Andrew Stanton Tweets About ‘John Carter’ Franchise That Might Have Been

John Carter

Remember _John Carter_? It was made for millions of dollars, was the live action directorial debut of Andrew Stanton, and Disney hoped it would launch a new franchise. It didn’t make any money though and so the franchise to be was put on hold.

Now director Andrew Stanton has tweeted about where things would have gone.

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