Features
Tuesday, January 13 2009
Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008
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.
Tuesday, April 29 2008
The Return of the Popcorn Circus: June 2008
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?
Reviews
Friday, January 9 2009
Wall-E
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.
Friday, June 27 2008
WALL∙E
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.
Thursday, May 29 2003
Finding Nemo (2003)
What I find more intriguing is the timeliness of Marlin's dilemma, raising his child in an ever more dangerous and unpredictable world.
Blogs
Monday, June 30 2008
Robot Holocaust
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.
Sunday, June 29 2008
Consumer Apocalypse: WALL-E
As part of a double dose of Disney Monday, Chris Barsanti looks at the recent release from CG savants Pixar.
Friday, June 27 2008
'WALL*E' is Wonderful!
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…
News
Wednesday, October 1 2008
The end is here: 9-11 attacks and the new millennium revive apocalyptic movies
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…
Friday, July 18 2008
'Wall-E,' Pixar's surprisingly political postmodern masterpiece
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…
