Released in 2007, Pixar’s first collection of short films offered a glimpse of the company’s evolution from 1984 through 2006. Watching that first collection, it’s fascinating to witness the tremendous leaps in CGI that were occurring during Pixar’s earliest efforts….
As one of the most pivotal events in American and World history, there is no shortage of documentaries and films based on World War II. In 2007, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick debuted The War on PBS, a six-part 15-hour…
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, adapted from the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, centers on nine-year-old Oskar Schell who lost his beloved father in the World Trade Center collapse on 9/11. While some have suggested that using such a young…
Disney/Buena Vista | 2010 | 103 mins. | G Pixar hit another home run, extending an amazing streak of successes that stretches all the way back to the original Toy Story, which changed the face of feature length animation when…
Paramount Pictures | 1998 | 169 mins. | Rated R There have been many great films about the atrocities of war. Each tells their story in a different way—a different angle or perspective. Each have brought tales of heroism and…
Disney / Buena Vista | 1999 | 92 mins. | Rated G Four years after Pixar changed the face of animation with Toy Story, they came roaring back into theaters with Toy Story 2. Certainly expectations were high, but rarely…
Disney / Buena Vista | 1995 | 81 mins. | Rated G Animation can be divided into two generations—before Toy Story and after Toy Story. By the mid 1990’s, computer animation was regularly used in traditionally animated films to aid…