As long as I’m on a Pixar theme, there’s this: A guy named Larry and his wife were part of a small group who saw an early screening of the next Pixar film, Up. Larry shared his thoughts about the movie: Both my wife and I welled up at a few scenes and there is …
October 28, 2008According to the New York Times, the Disney/Pixar folks are planning to push Wall-E as a candidate for Best Picture at next year’s Academy Awards. Sweet! I made my position on this perfectly clear this summer: Wall-E deserves a shot at Best Picture, and if I had a vote, it would be my choice. It’s …
October 28, 2008Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal has joined the growing chorus of people calling for Disney to promote Wall-E as a Best Picture candidate at next year’s Academy Awards: “WALL-E” isn’t just an animated feature; it’s a great motion picture by any measure, and has already been hailed as such — by critics who’ve …
July 12, 2008TIME magazine asks a good question: Can WALL-E Win Best Picture? Needless to say, I’m rooting for it. But the article lays out the hurdles our little robotic hero will have to overcome: No animated movie has ever won Best Picture. Academy voters, especially actors, are biased against animated movies. Disney/Pixar may not want to …
July 8, 2008No, it’s not me doing the live blogging. I have two friends who are very funny, who are Movie Geeks of the first degree, and even have a successful movie podcast. And they are the ones who are live blogging all of Oscar weekend. (Crazy, I’m tellin’ ya.) If you’re a movie geek, too, you …
February 23, 2008