Who’s watching the Wall-E? »

Oh I do so love this mash-up.As the swell folks at Film School Rejects wisely point out, it’s a far better effort than simply matching audio from Movie A to the trailer of Movie B. The creator here truly puts feeling and meaning to this, draws parallels between the movies’ themes, is drawing a compelling [...]

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The Summer ‘08 movie season: where successful movies played the movies disguised as other movies. »

I have to say that I’m entirely confused. Was the Summer 2008 popcorn summer movie season a good one or wasn’t it? The batpod-tastic success of The Dark Knight certainly seems as though we can mark this one in the “win” column, but on reflection I realize that I saw about a third fewer movies [...]

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Follow-up: Pixar favorites, yours and mine. »

Happy Post-Turkey day, if celebrating that was your thing. If not, welcome to late November, or as I like to call it “The Most Annoying Time Of The Year And When Did Everyone Forget How To Drive?”. I thought I’d run the results from last week’s article about next year’s Pixar release Wall-E in which [...]

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Bringing the “cute” with Wall-E – and which Pixar is your favorite? »

I saw this new Wall-E teaser one-sheet over at both /film and Empire today, and it occurs to me that Pixar has never really marketed the “cute” factor in their movies quite so heavily as they are with this release.
That’s not to say, of course, that Pixar’s creations aren’t cute – because of course [...]

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I think I should be working for the viral “Buy n Large” site created for Wall-E. »

The other day my blogging brother Ray at The Rec Show featured a pair of Pixar-created videos in support of next year’s feature Wall-E from the Can-Barely-Do-Wrong blockbuster animation studio.
I mean, good gravy. My thoughts and feelings about Ratatouille are still all warm and percolating inside my head and it looks like Pixar’s already teeing [...]

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