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Tag Archives: Pixar

Toy Story: “The Boy Is Mine”

April 18, 2020by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

I’m still not entirely sure if editing videos will become a second avocation for me, much less replace this first one. But a few days ago, this idea came to […]

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My 25 Favorite Montages & Cross-cutting Sequences

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What’s the opposite of a long take? The first four top 25 lists I put together for this blog were matching pairs: scariest scenes and funniest scenes, endings and beginnings. […]

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Double Feature: The Brave Little Toaster and Toy Story 3

June 22, 2018by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

During his first stint with Disney, John Lasseter pitched an adaptation of the Thomas M. Disch children’s story The Brave Little Toaster. Computer technology was a wide-open frontier in the early […]

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Oscar 2016

January 14, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Can it be that I’m getting less cynical about the Academy Awards? Looking over last year’s post, I find that I was a little grumpy for some reason. Maybe it […]

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My Favorite Movies: Toy Story

December 24, 2015by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

My toys have been resting quietly in the family basement for several years now. It’s a good retirement, side-by-side with some of my older brother’s toys. I almost never think […]

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My Most Anticipated 2016 Movies

December 18, 2015by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

Checking in with last year’s list, I find that things turned out about as well as could be expected. Of the five movies I’ve seen to date, my least favorite […]

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Film, Lists

My Most Anticipated 2015 Movies

December 19, 2014by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

There are two equal and opposing thoughts rising in me as I contemplate my fourth annual “most anticipated movies” list. First is that 2015 looks really exciting. Each of the […]

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Film, Lists

My Favorite Movies: Toy Story 2

February 28, 2013by Paul Boyne 2 Comments

Here is a film that manages to leave several impressions at once. Its genius is that, while some of those impressions may only be gleaned on subsequent viewings, all of […]

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My Trip Through Disney Animation: Why Pixar, et al. Don’t Count

September 24, 2012by Paul Boyne 6 Comments

As we all know, the Walt Disney Company possesses one of the world’s biggest media empires. The company’s reach is global and diverse. Nowhere is this more apparent than in […]

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My Favorite Twitter Bios

June 26, 2012by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

I’ve been on Twitter for about ten months now. It’s been at times a guilty pleasure and at other times truly rewarding — but almost always fun. There’s a great […]

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