The Big Brains at Disney and Pixar Animation HQ tried recently to trademark the term “Dia de los Muertos” – Day of the Dead – so they could co-opt it for marketing an upcoming Pixar film about the Day of the Dead celebrations. We’re sure it’ll be a completely adorable rendition of the traditional...
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In an interview with Vodkaster last week, Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle lamented the “family-friendly Pixarification” of the mainstream cinema, foreseeing a future cinema that that features less violence, less sex and less brainpower — films so very unlike the hardnosed British films of his punk rock youth. In the interview, he specifically cites the films...
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It’s been a lot to catch up on since I spent last week and a good part of this week with the flu, but the only thing I was really upset I missed out on the day it was released was a new Mickey Mouse short film called Croissant de Triomphe that also features Minnie as...
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Since its inception, the Best Animated Film category used to be an almost automatic Pixar win. They times are not exactly a-changin’, but the landscape for animated films certainly is. Dreamworks is still behind the pack as far critical acclaim goes (though kids love their films), but the emergence of LAIKA and the Pixar...
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We’re only a week away from the big night now: the 85th annual Academy Awards airs next Sunday night, and I still think Lincoln will have a huge night, or at least a bigger night than the heavy-favorite, Argo. I watched it for a second time this week, and Argo is a really good...
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Three days later and I’m still stuffed from Thanksgiving, but it only makes it easier and more logical to gorge on movies along with gorging on leftover pie and corn bread stuffing. The cold I came down with this week didn’t help much since I was konking out left and right, but I managed...
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Between a lack of interesting non-Cloud Atlas yellow face stories and the giant megastorm lumbering its way slowly over the entire Eastern United states, the roundup is somewhat slight this week. Because of that, I’ll take this time to really encourage you guys to watch the three short films I’ve posted below. If you...
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HBO premiered its Alfred Hitchcock/Tippi Hedron biopic, The Girl, last night in primetime. A co-production with BBC, the film tells the story of the living prison Hedron was kept in by an obsessed Alfred Hitchcock in the 1960s. Aside from the diminutive English actor Toby Jones in the role of Hitch, there was very...
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What a boring week. Or perhaps I just paid less attention to the internet this week because of the annoyingly ubiquitous “A-Rod is benched” story that the baseball media jizzed themselves empty over this week. I keep meaning to separate my Twitter feed (where I got 90% of these links from) but am just...
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If you missed the release of Pixar’s newest Toy Story short film with the 3D rerelease of Finding Nemo, tonight is your chance to get a peek at Partysaurus Rex — albeit in 2D. The short, which finds tiny-limbed Rex (Wallace Shawn) left behind after bath time to make new toy friends (and party, obviously),...
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