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Finding (More Than) Nemo
“JUST KEEP SWIMMING” is the line most remembered and quoted from Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo. When I saw the movie again in 3-D this past weekend, I knew that would be the moment that all of the kids and many of … Continue reading
Gandalf, Donald Miller, and Fear
THERE’S A MOMENT in the newest trailer for The Hobbit where Galadriel asks Gandalf, “Why the halfling?” Of the many he could call to action, why a hobbit who has never left home should go on such a dangerous adventure? … Continue reading
The New Trailer for The Hobbit
DON’T HEAD OUT YOUR FRONT DOOR without catching the new trailer for The Hobbit. The folks over at The Beat posted it this morning. Here it is below. I think the tone is spot on: tense but not as dark … Continue reading
Revisiting the Temple of Doom
SEQUELS LIKE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK set us up for a fall, I’m afraid. Empire is a classic example of second-movie-is-brilliant syndrome. Taken part-to-whole, one might think that most sequels (especially #2 in a series) are as good or better than … Continue reading
There are Perks to Being a Wallflower?
THE TRUTH IS, I SHOULD HAVE READ THE BOOK YEARS AGO. Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower has been a critical (and criticized) favorite for over a decade. I’d seen it and heard of it for most of … Continue reading
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Raiding the Lost Ark . . . Again
I SUPPOSE MOVIE RE-RELEASES have been around for a long time, which is easy to forget. Disney used to re-release some of their classics every few years. Cult-classic movies often get art house showings. And now that Blu-Ray is a … Continue reading
Trailing the Life of Pi
YEARS AGO I READ AN ARTICLE about movies that hate their audiences. It was around the year 2000, and there had been a string of quality, thoughtful movies: The Matrix, Fight Club, Memento, and especially The Six Sense. All of … Continue reading
Joss Whedon Says the Darndest Things
I’VE BEEN A JOSS WHEDON FAN for a while now. Firefly then Buffy then Dollhouse. The Avengers? I was one of those that saw it not so much as “hopefully the best Marvel movie ever” but as “Joss Whedon’s best … Continue reading
Movies, Movies, Movies
WE’RE HALFWAY THROUGH 2012, and so the question of the quality of movies out this year has popped up over at Grantland. It’s been a good six months for me and the movies, really. I’ve only seen a tiny handful … Continue reading
Monsters (go to) University
JUST IN TIME FOR this weekend’s release of Brave, Disney-Pixar has released a teaser trailer for Monsters University. When Monsters Inc came out, I had no real sense of what the movie was to be about, and I was genuinely … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 