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New Trailer from Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur Released
Pixar Animation Studio’s The Good Dinosaur asks the question: “What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct?” Pixar Animation Studios takes you on an epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo (voice of Raymond Ochoa) makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling throu...[Read More]
Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out Posts Biggest Opening Ever for an Original Movie
Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out climbed to the top of the historical box office charts last weekend with the biggest opening for an original movie in history, topping the previous No. 1 original movie, Avatar, by more than $13 million, with over $90 million in domestic box office alone. Directed by Pete Docter (Up and Monsters, Inc.), and featuring the voices of Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Min...[Read More]
Plan for Toy Story 4 Revealed
Despite brilliantly ending one of cinema’s most beloved series with Toy Story 3 back in 2010, Pixar Animation Studios (which is now owned by Disney) has revealed plans to return audiences to the world of the studio’s signature character with Toy Story 4. The first Toy Story (1995) was Pixar’s inaugural film and the world’s first computer-animated feature film. Nearly two decades ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Frozen
Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph was one of my favorite movies last year, and it gave me a good feeling to see that the House of Mouse can still make great animated films even when they aren’t under the Pixar banner. After that, I was eagerly anticipating the next Disney animated feature, Frozen, loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen and written and co-directed by Jennifer L...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Let it Snow in Disney’s Frozen
Hello once again, dear readers, and I hope that at least some of you got out to see Rush this past weekend. This week’s belated edition of Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at the new UK trailer for the upcoming Disney animated film Frozen. Premise: Anna (voice of Kristen Bell) teams up with mountain man Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and his reindeer sidekick Sven in an epic journey, encounter...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Can We Spoil John Dies at the End?
Happy Election Day, dear readers! Now that you’ve (hopefully) gone to vote, a new installment of Trailer Trashin’ is here to help wash the taste of all things political out of your brain. This week’s column dives far down the rabbit-hole into weirdness, with the new trailer for the upcoming sci-fi/horror/comedy John Dies at the End. Premise: It’s a drug that promises an out...[Read More]
Movie Review: Wreck-It Ralph
For most of my life, almost as long as I’ve loved movies, I’ve been a huge fan of video games. Because of that, it’s been disappointing that films based on games have had such a dismal history, with many of them being pretty much unwatchable. But on the other hand, there have been some great films about video games – Tron (1982) and WarGames (1983) spring immediately to mind. Wel...[Read More]
Movie Review: Frankenweenie
There may seem to be glut of scary-themed animated movies this fall – we’ve already had ParaNorman and Hotel Transylvania – and now we have Frankenweenie, Tim Burton’s comparably modest addition to a genre he had a significant hand in popularizing (with a hat tip to Rankin-Bass, et al). Frankenweenie’s first life was as a thirty-minute live-action short in 1984 by the morbid auteur during his slav...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Get in the Game with Wreck-It Ralph
With the cooler fall weather comes the beginning of the long wait for the big year-end movies. But in the meantime, there are still plenty of cool trailers being released. This week’s Trailer Trashin’ looks at Disney’s upcoming animated film Wreck-It Ralph. Premise: Wreck-It Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) is the villain of the arcade video game Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the gam...[Read More]
A Ten-Year-Old Film Critic Reviews The Odd Life of Timothy Green
The Odd Life of Timothy Green is about Timothy and his life that takes some twists and turns along the way. I loved the movie. It was really emotional. I wanted to cry sometimes. The movie was a very magical adventure. I loved how Timothy has a friend that gets him (that is, understands him). This is a movie about a mom and a dad who want to have a child but can’t have one. They go to the doctor a...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Disney’s The Odd Life of Timothy Green is everything but odd, unless you are of the mind-set that great movies being made as of late are few and far between. Finally ladies and gentlemen there is a wonderful movie that all audiences will enjoy. This drama/fantasy/comedy grips you from the very beginning. It’s a laugh out loud, sweet, and tender movie that is sure to entertain. Cindy (Jennifer Garn...[Read More]
Movie Review: Snow White and the Huntsman
The only similarity between Snow White and the Huntsman and the Disney tale with which you’re probably familiar is that both start with the words: “Once Upon a Time.” On the other side of that phrase lies a kingdom where men are mere bystanders against the forces that reign supreme: beauty and dark magic, wielded dangerously by bad-ass women. Evil queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron) is a man-hat...[Read More]