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PopSmarts: Looking for God in “Toy Story”
It’s not a revelation to anyone, anymore, to point out that Hollywood is no longer in the business of original ideas. It takes a great deal of money to make and market a movie
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The Boy: Remembering Songwriter Robert Sherman
It’s not fair that it sometimes takes a death to rouse us from our collective unconsciousness and pay respect to someone who deserves it. Before the news cycle started spinning today, many may have
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Magic Music: A Happy Playlist of Songs from Disney Movies
50 years after his passing, Walt Disney's legacy is remembered through the happy songs his company has given to the world
Read More »Farkakte Film Flashback: Fred vs. Pee Wee Edition
Is the YouTube sensation known as Fred the new Pee-Wee Herman, or a harbinger of hell on earth? Pete Chianca knows the answer
Read More »Numberscruncher: Getting Value from Intellectual Property
Sita Sings the Blues is a great, sad movie about a breakup. The creator, Nina Paley, mixes animation styles and narrators, using the story of the Hindu gods Rama and Sita in the Ramayana.
Read More »Film Review: “Up”
The new Disney/Pixar collaboration, Up, has just opened to some of the best reviews the studio’s ever received. While it’s a very enjoyable film, I have to say it certainly isn’t among their best, in
Read More »No Concessions: The Sherman Brothers’ Spoonful of Bitterness
Here it is, not even June and with a case of blockbuster fatigue already. Pro and con, the fourth (fourth!) Terminator movie has already been dissected and dismantled around here, and the notion of
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