retro ad: 1980s Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear commercial
This isn’t an old 80s TV ad — though it’s a convincing fake — but a bit of viral marketing for Toy Story 3…
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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.
on the origin of species (of Cars and Autobots)
It’s perfectly obvious that the Transformers are a more evolutionarily advanced species that has its genetic roots in Pixar’s Cars.
question of the day: If Chuck Norris and Jennifer Love Hewitt aren’t the worst Hollywood actors, who are?
Have you seen Slate’s Hollywood Career-o-Matic? This hilarious tool collates data from Rotten Tomatoes to assess who is a great actor, actress, or director based upon the Freshness ratings of their films. Its usefulness is questionable, though…
why ‘Big’ is depressing; should Roger Ebert retire?; streaming-only Netflix; more: leftover links
Plus: Could Wikileaks have stopped 9/11?; PBS isn’t as progressive as we thought; Hugh Jackman on Wolverine 2; more…
‘Toy Story 3’ continues to tear up the British box office
As of this past weekend, *Toy Story 3* has earned almost £59 million in the U.K…
quick list: five really relevant filmmakers working now
With a look at balancing brains and appeal and impact, here are the filmmakers who are driving what we watch, how we talk about it, and what’s to come.
question of the day: Are the artists at Pixar collectively today’s Leonardo da Vinci?
With Toy Story 3 about to land at British cinemas — it opens on July 23 (it has already earned more than $250 million in North America, which it did at a near-record-breaking pace) — art and design writer Jonathan Jones in the Guardian decrees that digital animation, especially as exemplified by the works of … more…
male gaze alert: ‘Toy Story 3’ short “Day and Night”
Anyone who’s seen Toy Story 3 knows that it opens — as Pixar films typically do — with a delightful animated short film. This one is called “Day and Night,” and it’s a personification of, unsurprisingly, “day” and “night” as vaguely human-shaped blobs moving about the natural world. Day, for instance, wakes up in the … more…
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.
