July 2012

The Fairest of Them All

  • Title: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-blu-ray75 years ago Walt Disney set out to create the first animated feature film by adapting the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of Snow White about a beautiful princess, a jealous queen, a magic mirror, and seven dwarves. Disney had to fight his business partners, movie theaters who balked at showing a full-length animated film, and a Hollywood movie business that saw the entire project as nothing more than “Disney’s Folly.”

Despite these obstacles, the film premiered to a standing ovation and went on to be the highest grossing motion picture of all time. (A record the film held until the release of Gone with the Wind.) The movie was an immediate box office and critical success that would give birth to an entire genre of animated film. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs would be re-released in theaters eight times over the next half-century, each time earning new fans and more praise.

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Mirror Mirror

  • Title: Mirror Mirror
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mirror-mirror-blu-rayDirected by Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall) Mirror Mirror was the first of two movies this year adapting the fairy tale of Snow White for the big screen. Mirror Mirror, much like Snow White and the Huntsman, is a bit of a mixed bag. The film definitely targets a younger audience with its PG Rating, but Lily Collins‘ Snow White is a pretty drab leading lady (at least until she starts her bandit career), and, despite what we’re told in the film’s opening narration, this is certainly Snow White’s tale and not that of the Queen (Julia Roberts).

After a brief opening narration, the film opens on Snow White’s 18th birthday where she ventures out into the village for the first time since the death of her father, the King (Sean Bean), years before. On her journey she will learn just how ruthless the Queen has become, meet a charming young prince (Armie Hammer) and a motley crew of dwarf thieves pretending to be giants, and find a way to live happily ever after.

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Futurama – The Six Million Dollar Mon

  • Title: Futurama – The Six Million Dollar Mon
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After conducting the annual Planet Express employee performance review Hermes (Phil LaMarr) decides he’s the one who needs to be fired and is replaced by a bureaucratic computer. Feeling a bit lost Hermes decides what he really needs is robotic augmentation (complete with chest harpoon, Cylon-eye, and extendo-arm).

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Franklin & Bash – Last Dance

  • Title: Franklin & Bash – Last Dance
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Franklin (Breckin Meyer) and Bash (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) get another unusual case when the widow (Anne Ramsay) of a recently deceased microbiologist asks for their help to stop her late husband’s body being used as a sculpture in a human-body exhibit who plan to pose the scientist as a dancer in one of their traveling shows.

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