Toy Story: “The Boy Is Mine”
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 […]
Tag Archives: Pixar
My 25 Favorite Montages & Cross-cutting Sequences
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. […]
Double Feature: The Brave Little Toaster and Toy Story 3
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 […]
Oscar 2016
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 […]
My Favorite Movies: Toy Story
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 […]
My Most Anticipated 2016 Movies
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 […]
My Most Anticipated 2015 Movies
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 […]
My Favorite Movies: Toy Story 2
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 […]
My Trip Through Disney Animation: Why Pixar, et al. Don’t Count
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 […]
My Favorite Twitter Bios
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 […]
Geppetto's Clocks 