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Pixar Movies 25 – Turning Red
Turning Red, released earlier this year, marks the third time a Pixar movie didn’t receive a full theatrical release (the very good Soul being the first). Despite releasing in March, when most territories in the United States and Canada started … Continue reading
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Tagged animated movies, animation, anna-marie rose, anna-marie rose nicholson, cgi, coming of age, disney, james hong, movie review, movies, pixar, pixar movies, sandra oh, sasha roiz, turning red, wai ching ho
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Pixar Movies 24 – Luca
It seems that Pixar hasn’t done as well with their advertising in the last couple of years. I knew very little about Soul before I watched it about a year ago, and I didn’t even know this movie existed until … Continue reading
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Tagged alberto scorfano, alberto surace, animated movies, cgi, disney, enrico casarosa, giulia, italy, jacob tremblay, jesse andrews, luca, maya rudolph, mike jones, movie review, movies, pixar, pixar movies, sandy martin
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Pixar Movies 23 – Soul
This post has been delayed because, well honestly, I was watching the swim meet at the Olympics. Now that it’s over, it’s time to get back to blogging about movies. Two weeks ago I said I’d look at Black Widow … Continue reading
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Tagged academy award, annie awards, bafta, disney, herbie hancock, jamie fox, jazz, jazz music, joe gardner, jon batiste, mike jones, movie review, movies, pete docter, pixar, pixar movies, quincy jones, tina fey
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Disney Remakes 7 – The Jungle Book (2016)
Now that I’m starting to get my life back under control, it’s time to continue this series on Disney live-action Remakes. Today’s subject is 2016’s The Jungle Book, the remake for the last movie that Walt Disney produced. He died … Continue reading
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Tagged academy award, bagheera, baloo, ben kingsley, bill murray, cgi, Christopher Walken, disney, disney movies, disney remakes, gigantopithecus, i wanna be like you, idris elba, jon favreau, kaa, king louie, los angeles times, lupita nyong'o, movie review, movies, mowgli, neel sethi, new york times, orangutan, pixar, raksha, rebecca williams, rotten tomatoes, Scarlett Johannsen, shere khan, the jungle book, visual effects society, walt disney
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Disney Associated Movies 14 – Mary Poppins Returns
In early September, I began this blog series looking at movies that involved Disney Animation Studios, but weren’t fully produced or released by the famed studio. Most of these movies combine live action with animation. Some of these movies only … Continue reading
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Tagged animated, animation, big ben, brian sibley, buckingham palace, colin firth, dick van dyke, disney, disney animation studios, disney associated movies, emily blunt, emily mortimer, fidelity fiduciary bank, great depression, jane banks, julie andrews, karen dotrice, lin-manuel miranda, london, marc shaiman, mary poppins, mary poppins returns, meryl streep, michael banks, movie review, movies, p.l. travers, pixar, richard m. sherman, rob marshall, sherman brothers, topsy, walt disney
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Pixar Movies 21 – Toy Story 4
Toy Story 3 felt like the perfect way to end the Toy Story franchise. It took background themes from Toy Story 2 and brought them to the forefront in the third movie. The toys realized in Toy Story 2 that … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew stanton, animated movies, animation, anne potts, bo peep, bonnie, buzz lightyear, cgi, christina hendricks, disney, don rickles, forkie, gabby gabby, john lasseter, jordan peele, josh cooley, keagen-michael keen, keanu reeves, mr. potato head, pixar, pixar movies, stephany folsom, tim allen, tom hanks, tony hale, toy story, toy story 4, woody
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Pixar movies sorted by my personal preference
This post is next to impossible to write. Trying to determine which Pixar movie is my favourite is like trying to decide whether I like chocolate and peanut butter or chocolate and mint better. I tend to lose self-control with … Continue reading
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Tagged a bug's life, animated movies, brave, buzz lightyear, cars, cars 2, cgi, coco, dinosaurs, disney, dory, finding dory, finding nemo, inside out, john lasseter, lightning mcqueen, mater, merida, miguel, Mike Wazowski, monsters inc, monsters university, movies, nemo, pixar, pixar movies, ratatouille, sully, the good dinosaur, the incredibles, the incredibles 2, toy story, toy story 2, toy story 3, up, wall-e, woody
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Pixar Movies 20 – The Incredibles 2
The Incredibles 2 released very recently – about 2 weeks ago in fact. As such, there isn’t a lot of background information available just yet, so this won’t be as detailed of a blog post as some. Also, I only … Continue reading
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Tagged animated, animated movies, animation, brad bird, bud luckey, cgi, craig t. nelson, dash, disney, elastigirl, frozone, holly hunter, huck milner, jack-jack, jonathan banks, movie review, movies, mr. incredible, pixar, pixar movies, rotten tomatoes, samuel l jackson, sarah vowell, spy movie, superhero movies, the incredibles, the incredibles 2, violet
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DreamWorks animated movies 1 – Antz
Time to introduce my DreamWorks Blogathon. While DreamWorks doesn’t have the kind of consistent track record as Disney/Pixar when it comes to quality movies, they’re probably the only animation studio right now that can rival the Disney Corporation when it … Continue reading
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Tagged a bug's life, animated movies, animation, antz, cgi, Christopher Walken, dan aykroyd, danny glover, disney, dreamworks, dreamworks movies, gene hackman, gene siskel, jennifer lopez, john lasseter, pixar, roger ebert, rotten tomatoes, sharon stone, steven spielberg, sylvester stallone, toronto international film festival, woody allen, z
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