Friday, March 27 2009

Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)

By PopMatters Staff

On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.

Wednesday, October 5 2005

Toy Story: 10th Anniversary Edition (1995)

By Jesse Hassenger

Ten years on, much of Pixar's Toy Story, the first computer-animated feature film, is as sweet and smart as ever.

Sunday, January 1 1995

Toy Story 2 (1999)

By Jonathan Beller

Toy Story 2 (1999)

By P. Nelson Reinsch

Near the end of the film The Matrix, Neo (Keanu Reeves) begins to understand his own power. When he realizes that everything he is seeing is a computer program, the payoff shot for this knowledge shows the screen filled with the 1s and 0s which make up the objects and people previously seen. The shot is stunning, and lays bare not only the program within the film's narrative universe, but also the computer work necessary to create the effects in The Matrix.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

By Tracy McLoone

There are no songs in the latest Disney animated feature, 'Atlantis: The Lost Empire', but there are lots of explosions.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

By Cynthia Fuchs

There are no songs in the latest Disney animated feature, 'Atlantis: The Lost Empire', but there are lots of explosions.