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While it's no secret that Hollywood films tend to skew left in general, 'Astro Boy' may be the first animated blockbuster to discuss, if not necessarily endorse, explicit Marxist ideologies (albeit in cute robot form, of course.) In the movie, the aforementioned outcasts, led by Robotsky, form the Robot Revolutionary Front, stenciling their logo on city walls and chanting "Viva La Robotolution" at anyone within earshot. Crude posters of Lenin and Trotsky adorn the threadbare walls of an office in a desolate part of town, and a group of outcast revolutionaries hatch a scheme to overthrow the ruling powers and...

warning against the leftist content in this week's newly released dvds... especially the lame Palin joke in "Did You Hear About the Morgans?" and the Marxist cartoon characters in "Astro Boy" the new dvds include: Did You Hear About the Morgans?, The Princess and the Frog, Astro Boy, The Fourth Kind, Armored, Order of Chaos, Bandslam plus a round-up of Conservative reviews for most of these movies...

By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer TOKYO - Animation in America once meant Mickey Mouse, Snow White and Winnie the Pooh. These days, it's just as likely to mean Japanese fighting cyborgs, doe-eyed schoolgirls and sinister monsters — thanks in large part to people like John Ledford. The 36-year-old American is one of the top foreign distributors of Japanese "manga" comics and animation, known as "anime," building his fortune on a genre that is rapidly changing from a niche market to a mass phenomenon. Ledford, who's so busy his dubbing studio in Houston runs 24 hours a day, says the...