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“I ain’t afraid of no ghosts”

October 25th, 2015 | Posted in animation, cartoon, Disney, ghost, ghost-hunter

The other day I watched Disney’s animated cartoon, Lonesome Ghosts (1937). I caught a line in it I hadn’t noticed before. Each of the main characters has their encounter with a ghost, from Mickey to Donald to Goofy. In connection with Goofy’s spectral encounter he says, “I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.” In light of […]

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Hotel Transylvania Release and Its Glaring Omission

February 9th, 2013 | Posted in animation, cartoon, geek cultures, horror, monsters

Hotel Transylvania is now out on DVD and Blu-ray. My wife and I picked up a copy of the latter yesterday and watched it today. We had already seen it in the theaters and found it worthwhile. (My previous review can be read here.) I was especially looking forward to the Blu-ray extras. While these […]

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Disney’s The Princess and the Frog: Cartoon Fantasy and Social Reflection

December 30th, 2009 | Posted in animation, cartoon, Disney, fantasy

I haven’t seen Walt Disney’s The Princess and the Frog movie yet, but living in a neighborhood with young families many of them have, and they seem to have enjoyed it. The television advertisements for the film make me a little wary since it is supposedly the best Disney cartoon since The Lion King. But […]

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Halloween Animation Offerings

October 3rd, 2008 | Posted in cartoon, Halloween, stop-motion animation

One of the great things that I associate with the fall and the Halloween season is a collection of animation that I have enjoyed over the years. As children in the not too distant past, viewers had to wait for the whims of the major networks to air these programs, but now with DVDs, the […]

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