Weekend Movies: Awards Season Is Upon Us!
With only two weekends left before the end of the year and, more importantly, the end of awards eligibility, a tidal wave of great movies are opening this week. Ready to run through this weekend’s huge list?
Tag Archives: Pixar
Blu-ray Highlights for December 4th, 2012 – The Bright Day
Did you all take advantage of the slowdown in Blu-ray releases over the past couple of weeks to save up a few dollars? I hope so, because December will have no mercy on your wallets.
Blu-ray Highlights for November 13th, 2012 – The Trick Is N
This is another big, expensive week on the Blu-ray front, featuring some huge box sets, including one of the most monumental movies of all time. My wallet is begging me for mercy. How’s yours doing this year?
Full Metal Jackets: Something Fishy in 3D
Just in time for the holiday season, the Pixar favorite ‘Finding Nemo‘ will swim to Future Shop Canada inside exclusive collectible metal packaging for its Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack.
Full Metal Jackets: Home of the ‘Brave’
Pixar’s attempted comeback, the one featuring the Disney princesses’ redheaded stepsister, will get collectible metal packaging for its Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack at Future Shop in Canada.
‘Brave’ Explained by a Six-Year-Old
I spend so much time watching and critiquing movies that sometimes I forget how innocent movie-going can be to a little kid. I took my nearly six-year-old niece to see ‘Brave’ recently. What follows is the actual conve...
Weekend Box Office: Battle of the Family Flicks
Pixar has now made 13 feature-length animated films, and each has opened in the #1 spot at the box office. Actual attendance is down for the studio’s latest, but you wouldn’t know that if you didn’t take 3D ticke...
Poll: What Did You Think of ‘Brave’?
After the disappointment of ‘Cars 2‘, Pixar could really use an unqualified success to restore its reputation as the best animation studio working today. Unfortunately, this weekend’s release of the Scottish fair...
Weekend Movies: History, Fiction, and Historical Fiction
Not one of this weekend’s three major openers seems to be headed for major success. Weird genre movies rarely do huge numbers, princess movies are on the decline (though the Pixar brand might help), and a smaller romantic di...
Now Playing: Pixar’s New Red-Headed Stepchild
If you’ve heard any of the rumors about Pixar’s problematic path to ‘Brave’, then you should already know what to expect – a kid’s movie that’s far from perfect. I hadn’t paid much attenti...
Videogame Releases: Week of June 17th, 2012
Too much violence in today’s videogames? Not this week, as LEGO Batman and Superman lead a host of family friendly releases.
The Buzz About the 3D-Bee
It’s been over two years since the rollout of the new generation of 3D home theater, yet 3D fans still suffer a relative lack of content to play on their 3D HDTVs and projectors. New Blu-ray 3D releases seem to trickle out a...