Buy Fresh Air:Traveling to the Corners of Our “Frozen Planet”
From the Emmy-winning team behind Planet Earth and The Blue Planet comes Frozen Planet, the epic tale of two disappearing wildernesses, the Arctic and Antarctic. Using the latest camera technology, Frozen Planet captures unimaginable imagery above and below the ice, and follows the extraordinary fluctuations that accompany the changes of seasons in this most extreme of environments. With the aid of crystal-clear high-definition cinematography, Frozen Planet will open your eyes to the remarkable colors and variety of life in this frigid environment.
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Fresh Air:Making The Muppets Movie Was ‘Dream Come True’
NPR Review:The Muppets: Felt Favorites, Still Merrily Pretending
On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world’s biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets’ former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways.
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It’s still one of the sweetest kisses onscreen: the moment when pampered purebred Lady and streetwise mongrel Tramp, sharing a moonlit plate of spaghetti in an alley behind an Italian café, unknowingly slurp the same strand, and suddenly find their mouths meeting in surprise and tenderness. Ah, puppy love. Lady and the Tramp is a delight of animation and surprisingly deep character development, given that the stars are all dogs. The lessons of friendship and loyalty, of integrity — not to mention trusting in the kindness of strangers — ring true to delighted children and adults alike.
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Airtalk: Antonio Banderas is Puss in Boots
The Dinner Party: Antonio Banderas interview
In this fractured fairy tale, Jack and Jill have the magic beans and Humpty Dumpty, with the aid of Kitty Softpaws, convinces his old friend Puss in Boots to help him steal the beans so they can climb the beanstalk to get to the golden eggs. Comedy abounds in this film, not only in the twists and turns of some classic fairy tales gone awry, but with scenes that range from a litter-box dance fight between crowds of cats to Jack expressing his paternal instincts by strapping on a baby carrier filled with a piglet in a diaper, and, of course, Puss in Boots’ crafty use of his famous sad eyes to get just what he wants. While considered by some to be a prequel of sorts to the four Shrek films, Puss in Boots is definitely a stand-alone spinoff.
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Academy Awards 2012: Best Animated Feature Film
This category is a puzzler since a Pixar movie is not among the nominees. A Pixar film has won the previous four years. The year also saw the return of one of the best animated movies of all time with the 3D release of The Lion King. This led to a slight problem for me as none of the nominated films quite compare to The Lion King. So, in analyzing this category, we have two animated films which few people have heard about, 2 from Dreamworks and one from Paramount. I will eliminate the two most haven’t heard or seen, including myself. This leaves ‘Kung Fu Panda 2’ which I did not find as enjoyable as the first film. While I enjoyed ‘Puss in Boots’ with Antonio Banderas’ wonderful performance in the lead, I rank it as a close second. My prediction is for a win for “Rango.” Johnny Depp was marvelous in the lead. The film is wonderfully written and performed and features some wonderful new characters which I wouldn’t mind spending more time with in the future.
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