The quest for completion during Oscar season can at times be arduous, not to mention tedious and expensive, especially when you don't actually complete. As I do every year, I set the goal of finishing all the films submitted and accepted as eligible by the Academy for the Animated Feature prize. I knew from the … Continue reading Back Row Thoughts – Cleanup Animation
There's a moment in Dicks: The Musical (which was my "Redemption Reel" for September but I only got a chance to see it this past weekend thanks to two late delays in release) where you realize that just like Larry Charles' previous work (Borat, The Dictator, Religulous, etc.), absolutely nothing will be sacred, anything is … Continue reading Toxic Theatricality – Dicks: The Musical
There's a beautiful complexity to Guillermo del Toro's new version of Pinocchio that few other filmmakers could have reasonably pulled off. I think it's because there isn't one direct element of this latest adaptation that commands attention as being the thing that sets it apart from all the others. It isn't just the high quality … Continue reading A Real Life – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
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