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The delightful Anne Hathaway got up early this morning to announce the nominees for the Academy Awards and already Oscar season head scratching has begun. Can Avatar halt The Hurt Lockers march on claiming what seems like every single award in the Western world? Can Clooney oust Freeman for a second little gold man? Does having two [...]
It’s that time of year. The lists come out, people check to see if their favorite films are on the list, then complain when they’re left off. Moaning also comes when one film is placed too low or too high, and the writer is told he knows nothing of cinema. As should be the preface [...]
Looking back over the past twelve months highlights what a strange year this has been in cinema. Transformers 2 swept up at the box office, Terminator 3 nearly killed the franchise. (500) Days Of Summer’s incredible trailer resulted in an incredibly dissapointing film, Where The Wild Things Are dared to be even better than its Arcade Fire powered trailer [...]
Katheryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker has taken the L.A. Film Critics prizes for both Best Picture and Best Director. The film, a highly tense feature about a U.S. bomb disposal unit in Iraq, pipped Jason Reitman’s Up In The Air to the post with the Clooney-starring picture finishing second. Michael Haneke was runner up in [...]
Early this summer, Pixar announced that Up director Pete Docter will be working on a sequel to Monsters Inc…or so we thought. It turns out that the news was complete bullplop.
“I’m not working on it … I’m working on something else, but I cannot announce what it is,” Docter said.
2001’s Monster Inc was a [...]
Critics and audiences alike often get flack for championing Pixar’s films every time a new one is released. While everyone does go crazy with praise, just take a look at their catalog. Cars and A Bug’s Life may not be up to the standards of Toy Story 2, WALL-E, or Finding Nemo but they’re still [...]
In anticipation of Disney Pixar’s November 10th release of Up on DVD and Blu-ray, here are some little know facts from the movie.
* In the sequence where Carl’s house first lifts up, the Luxo Jr. ball can be seen in the girl’s bedroom as the house goes by her window.
* The Pizza Planet Truck, which [...]