Trailer Trash: Waking Sleeping Beauty
Chick 1 says: This trailer is making the movie blog rounds & and the documentary itself is making the festival rounds & getting positive reviews. The movie covers the revival of Disney animation in the 80s & early 90s and features such young up & comers like Tim Burton & John Lassiter. It looks fascinating [...]
Randomness: Pixar’s Amazing Tech Advances
Chick 1 says: I have long praised Pixar and their movies. They took animation, which had largely been a children’s only genre, and focused on bringing depth and meaning to the story and characters. While the animation was amazing, it was their creative storytelling that always hooked me. I’ve worked at an animation company long enough now [...]
Quote of the Week
I’ll take a hardware store over a gun any day. Guns make you stupid. Better to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart. Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) Burn Notice “Pilot” (2007)
Trailer Trash: The Toys Are Back in Town
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Quote of the Week
Love cannot stop true love; all it can do is delay it a little while. Wesley (Cary Elwes) The Princess Bride (1987)
Randomness: Cool Movie Posters
Chick 1 says: Check out these cool minimalist movie posters. My favorites are the Back to the Future series below. You can see more here.
Randomness: Oscar Noms
Chick 1 says: Nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards were anounced this morning. (Groundhog Day!) No major surprises. I didn’t expect major nominations for (500) Days or Star Trek but I was disappointed that (500) Days of Summer was not nominated for Original Screenplay. Oh well. My main question – will this be the year [...]
Randomness: Nickelodeon Slime Commercial
Chick 1 says: Love this new spot for Nickelodeon! It has great music and fantastic editing & pacing. The energy and charisma of the actors show why they are leads on Nick programming. And I love seeing the physics of the slime in slomo. Interesting that only one of these stars has the sense to keep [...]
Casting Notes: Bond to Fight Aliens
Chick 1 says: A few days ago I reported that Robert Downey Jr had dropped out of the scifi-western Cowboys & Aliens due to a scheduling conflict with the Sherlock Holmes sequel. His replacement has been announced and it is…. (drum roll)… Daniel Craig. I’m a fan of Daniel Craig’s. I had never been a [...]
