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The movie for the weekend is Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the first full-length Wallace and Gromit movie produced by Aardman and distributed by Dreamworks. I’m a great fan of Wallace and Gromit, in particular Close Shave and the brilliant Wrong Trousers, both of which won Academy Awards for Nick Parks, so […]

There simply is no justice in the world.

We had a screening of the new Joss Whedon movie Serenity in our screening room at Pixar. I have been awaiting the movie ever since I first heard of it, and was not disappointed. This movie is great, with superb performances, acting, dialogue, plot and action. I’m not going to spoil a minute of the […]

Last night’s movie was The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which appears to be getting the lion’s share of this weekend’s box office. Despite the trailers, this film turns out to largely be a courtroom drama which follows the trial of Father Moore, parish priest to the Moore family who was asked to perform an exorcism […]

Warning, there will be spoilers below, so if you haven’t seen the movie, don’t read further than this paragraph. I liked the movie, thought it was fun, but there are some things that I just have to rant about, and they will probably give away some of the plot elements (such as they are). You […]

Yesterday I went out and caught the newest Marvel movie release Fantastic Four, the story of four (well, five really) individuals who are, who guessed it bombarded with mysterious radiation and given superpowers. I’m a big fan of the superhero genre, and will generally go out to see almost anything, regardless of what the critics […]

It’s a rather curious fact that both I and my charming wife have a thing for zombie movies. You name it, if it has a zombie theme, we are out there watching it on opening weekend. It was then with considerable anticipation that we trundled off to see George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead. […]

Last night we had a screening of the new Dreamworks film Madagascar and I must say, it was one of the most enjoyable, light, fun, upbeat movies I’ve seen in a long time. I had a blast. It was colorful, it was fun, the voice talent was great, and it looked good. The movie begins […]

Well, once again, working for Pixar Animation has its perks: yesterday we had company screenings for the prerelease of George Lucas’ sixth installment in the Star Wars saga: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. I know you all will go see it anyway, so I won’t give any spoilers here. It delivers on what you […]

Upon returning from my SIGGRAPH sketch jury duty, I decided that Carmen deserved a lunch out and a movie. We chose The Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy, and trundled off. I’m a huge fan of Douglas Adams and this work in particular. Often when you really love a book, it is difficult to take derivative […]

Last night I finally got around to watching Revelations, a Star Wars fan film which I found to be truly remarkable. It is not without its flaws, but it is remarkable that fans could dedicate enough time, energy and organization to produce such a professional and competent film. I found the special effects and costuming […]

I’ll be out to see Robots this weekend (hey, have to keep the demand for CG up somehow), but in my browsing with Google News, I ran across this movie review with a title that caused me to laugh out loud: Robot meets world, world likes Pixar better Ouch! Still, I’m looking forward to it.

Well, the wife is off to San Antonio this weekend (miss ya honey!) so I decided to go catch a movie. After mulling the choices at my local omniplex, I chose Constantine starring Keanu Reeves. Reeves plays John Constantine, a man who has literally been to hell and back. Having glimpsed his fate, he now […]

Where your host teams with his charming wife to give the fashion rundown of the Oscars, and to review all the movies we didn’t see (most of the Oscar nominated) and the ones we did see in 2005. This was our first team effort: your charity in listening is appreciated for this stupendously long episode. […]

Carmen and I haven’t been to nearly enough movies lately, but today we got up early enough to go out and catch the nearly three hour long film The Aviator starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese. This film has been out for a while, but is still in theaters because of its eleven […]