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Weekly Mini Review: Toy Story 3 (2010)
Story: When he goes away to college, a boy packs some of his toys in the attic – causing them to think about running away. When they all accidentally end up at a daycare center, they meet yet another … Continue reading
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Tagged Action movie, CGI, Critical Analysis, Disney, movie, movie review, Movies, Pixar, Screenwriting, Thriller
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Weekly Mini Review: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2010)
Story: Merlin’s apprentices battle for supremacy, until the young and bumbling “chosen one” of the modern age saves the day. . . with science! Review: As much as I dislike Nicholas Cage, this movie was good enough where I could … Continue reading
Weekly Mini-Review: Avalon High (2010)
I’m going to break with precedent here and forgo the screen grab because the phrase “Da Mouse is litigious” has been ground into my subconscious. Story: A girl with King Arthur scholars for parents finds herself attending a conveniently named … Continue reading
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Tagged Disney, feminism, girl power, movie, movie review, Movies, Mythology, television, TV
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Weekly Mini-Review: The Lorax (2012)
Story: A boy living in a plastic city goes in search of a real tree to impress a girl, but after hearing the story of how the environment was ruined by corporate greed, he tries to bring back nature. Review: … Continue reading
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Tagged CGI, Critical Analysis, Disney, lorax, movie, movie review, Movies, seuss
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The Spontaneous Precipitation of Fairy Tale Rip offs
At first the sudden appearance TV shows like Grimm and Once Upon a Time seemed fallout from the not one but two movies about Snow White made in the last year or so. But that was only the beginning. Now … Continue reading
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Tagged antihero, Antiheroes, Critical Analysis, Critical essay, Disney, Fairytale, film, Film Theory, industry, Screenwriting, television, TV, Vampires
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CGI + Traditional Animation = The Future of Cartoons?
Because CGI makes for very crisp, slick-looking backgrounds and hand-drawn pictures make for very rich, varied, and often diaphanous backgrounds, the combination of the two made for a visually stunning movie. Continue reading