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Articles tagged "ben burtt" PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 FeatureThe New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008by PopMatters Staff[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved. PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008  PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 FeatureOff the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008by PopMatters Staff[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember. PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008  Film DVD ReviewWall-Eby Jennifer Kelly[9.Jan.09] :. The first half hour of Wall-E is a lyrical, magical achievement in filmmaking, which if it ended there, would make the movie an undisputed classic.  NewsThe end is here: 9-11 attacks and the new millennium revive apocalyptic moviesby Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)][1.Oct.08] :. Flooded cities. A plague of blindness. Humanity huddled in bunkers. It’s just another night at the movies. The Katrina documentary “Trouble the Water,” the viral-outbreak drama...  News‘Wall-E,’ Pixar’s surprisingly political postmodern masterpieceby Rod Dreher [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)][18.Jul.08] :. Conservatives love to complain about Hollywood liberalism, but most of the political films that shuffle through the cineplexes are standard-issue leftie hackwork that neither persuade nor succeed....  Short Ends and LeaderRobot Holocaustby Bill Gibron[30.Jun.08] :. In the second half of our Disney discussion, the way in which the dystopian world of WALL*E was sold to a susceptible public is dissected. Consumer Apocalypse: WALL-Eby Chris Barsanti[29.Jun.08] :. As part of a double dose of Disney Monday, Chris Barsanti looks at the recent release from CG savants Pixar. Featured Article Short Ends and Leader‘WALL*E’ is Wonderful!by Bill Gibron[27.Jun.08] :. By its very definition, imagination is limitless. The only true restrictions to the notion exist in the connection to actual human thought. Clearly, whoever is hiring (or perhaps, cloning) the... WALL∙Eby Cynthia Fuchs[27.Jun.08] :. For much of WALL∙E, the titular robot speaks not a word, but instead whimpers or exclaims, his language an assortment of expressive erps and eeps. The Return of the Popcorn Circus: June 2008by Bill Gibron[29.Apr.08] :. If May almost tent-poled itself out of existence, June will be even worse. After all, are audiences really ready for 13 major release in less than two months -- with more to come? |
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