Onward, Disney/Pixar’s latest, is the studios first original work in three years, but still feels derivative. A second viewing improves and deepens the character’s relationships, but the quest aspect of story introduces a lot of noise, and the magical creature … Continue reading ONWARD
Coco gets better with every viewing. Cars 3 improves slightly. Toy Story 4 does not. It makes the construction lazier, motivation messier, and rewrites a central character to make him the fool. It’s not one for the ages. From Boulder Weekly Vol. 26, No. 45, “To infinity, … Continue reading TOY STORY 4
One good turn deserves another, and from yesterday’s Coco to today’s Cars 3, there’s much to find in every Pixar movie. A revisit proves that the underlying story and emotion holds up—enough. McQueen’s decline and Cruz’s rise are unbalanced, and many middle scenes … Continue reading CARS 3
In 2017 I had the chance to interview Danielle Feinberg, director of photography at Pixar. The cause for the occasion was the release of Coco, a fantastical story of a young boy who inadvertently travels to the land of the dead. … Continue reading Interview with Danielle Feinberg
As the coronavirus pandemic approaches its projected peak, the need to stay indoors takes on a renewed urgency. But, for a good many, self-isolation is less than a luxury. Escape is needed, and there are fewer art forms that offer … Continue reading More Than Just Design: INCREDIBLES 2 and Yesterday’s Tomorrows
If you’ve finished The Mandalorian on Disney+ and still have a hankering for a Western/Sci-Fi mashup, then you needn’t wait for the new chapters coming this November: Cowboy Bebop is streaming on Hulu. Concocted by the minds of Sunrise animation, … Continue reading Sunday Streams — COWBOY BEBOP
Much has changed in how we view movies in the past decade. Even though we’ve been streaming movies at home since the mid-to-late-2000s (around the same time as the first Blu-rays hit the market), watching DVDs since the mid-1990s, VHS … Continue reading Sunday Streams — Disney+
