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DVD News: "Chicken Run" is the instant animated classic that brought "The Great Escape" down on the farm with a bunch of intrepid chickens.

Salon columnist Michael Sragow was a movie critic and editor at Rolling Stone, and now writes on film for the New Yorker and other publications. Listen to his weekly audio recordings discussing movies and DVDs.

This week Sragow talks about the DVD release of "Chicken Run," the instant animated classic that brought "The Great Escape" down on the farm with a bunch of intrepid chickens.

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