Features
Friday, March 27 2009
Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)
On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.
Reviews
Friday, June 9 2006
Cars (2006)
Thrilling in its shiny surface detail, the NASCAR scene stretches before you like an anthropomorphized vista: this is the immediate future of animation, and Pixar, recently and loudly sold to Disney, means to own it.
Wednesday, October 5 2005
Toy Story: 10th Anniversary Edition (1995)
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)
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.
Blogs
Sunday, March 21 2010
Toy Story (1995) / Toy Story 2 (1999): Blu-ray
At this point in the critical game, does Pixar and its premiere franchise, Toy Story, really need defending? Do you really need another writer waxing…
Friday, October 2 2009
3D Provides Added Dimension to Already Terrific 'Toy' Stories
At this point in the critical game, does Pixar and its premiere franchise, Toy Story, really need defending? Do you really need another writer waxing…
