curated: Emma Thompson’s powerful #MeToo letter to Skydance re John Lasseter’s “second chance”
The woman is a goddess and a badass.
John Lasseter
curated: John Lasseter is part and parcel of Pixar’s problem with women
It’s not a complicated connection.
Disney wasting no time on that spectacle-over-story policy: here comes ‘Planes’
It’s like Cars, only… Nope, it’s just like Cars.
Cars 2 (review)
Those clever sneaky Pixar folks are warning us that if we Americans don’t clean house, we’re going to bring the whole world down with us, and the entirety of human civilization will collapse into a nasty soup of irrationality and ignorance.
Colin Firth and Natalie Portman are Oscar shoo-ins; everything else up for grabs: Oscar predictions
Here’s an at-a-glance look at my picks for Sunday night’s Academy Awards — projected winners are Xed. Keep in mind: this isn’t a list of whom I think should win Oscars but whom I think will win…
Toy Story 3 (review)
It seemed like a good thing not to get one’s hopes up too much, because how long can Pixar’s streak of genius and spirit and wonder last? But this is a finale that brings the overarching story to its satisfying conclusion.
Cars (review)
Cars are people too? Sooo not funny.
Toy Story 2 (review)
Funnier and more touching and meaningful than its predecessor, Toy Story 2 is the rare sequel that improves upon its progenitor — and, considering how wondrous Toy Story was, that’s saying something. Toy Story — as funny and fun as it was — was also bursting with joy, with the delight the filmmakers obviously took in bringing a roomful of toys to life. Toy Story realized that secret childhood fantasy we all had, that our toys had lives of their own, that they played with one another when we weren’t around.
