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Movie Review: Monsters University
“Monsters University” on IMDB Comedy, 104 Minutes, 2013 I’ve said it before, and I’ll continue to say it until they prove me wrong: Pixar doesn’t make bad movies. They just don’t. Some of their...
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Movie Review: Despicable Me 2
“Despicable Me 2″ on IMDB Comedy, 98 Minutes, 2013 Had some trouble getting into this one. The core story is straightforward but, overall, forgettable. Our reformed hero, Gru, with his three...
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Movie Review: Planes
“Planes” on IMDB Family, 91 Minutes, 2013 It used to be that companies like “Pixar” had to suffer poor imitators. Other companies would come along and produce, at best, paint-by-numbers knock-offs that...
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Movie Review: Smurfs 2
“Smurfs 2″ on IMDB Family/Comedy, 105 Minutes, 2013 The Smurfs, like French Fries, are often mistakenly assumed to have originated in France. In fact both are Belgian! So, if you want to thank somebody...
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Movie Review: Turbo
“Turbo” on IMDB Animation, 96 Minutes, 2013 This is the latest installment of DreamWorks Animation’s unofficial series of things that would rather be other things. Like the other installments, this...
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Movie Review: Frozen
“Frozen” on IMDB Adventure, 102 Minutes, 2013 Hey kids, it’s time to dig up Hans Christian Anderson and carve another chunk from his desiccated flesh! Sure, we’ve left him alone for awhile, but it’s...
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Movie Review: Free Birds
“Free Birds” on IMDB Comedy/Family, 91 Minutes, 2013 Hey, kids: want to watch a completely bland, totally mediocre, computer animated family comedy! It stars famous people! It has topical references...
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Movie Review: The Lego Movie
“The Lego Movie” on IMDB Adventure, 100 Minutes, 2014 This is a completely formula, by-the-numbers family film. Bright, colorful animated characters voiced by famous people. Lots of jokes with popular...
View ArticleThe Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
Most people over the age of 40 will likely remember this as a weird little filler cartoon thrown between “Bugs Bunny” and “The Road Runner” on any number of random cartoon shows. As a child I remember...
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Movie Review: Mr Peabody and Sherman
“Mr Peabody and Sherman” on IMDB Family, 92 Minutes, 2014 Hey kids, it’s a computer animated family film based on an old cartoon! There are topical references! There are nostalgic references! There are...
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Movie Review: The Box Trolls
“The Box Trolls” on IMDB Animation/Family, 96 Minutes, 2014 LAIKA, the studio behind the classics “Coraline” [IMDB] and “ParaNorman” [My Review at MoreBrains.com], continues its mostly thankless...
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Movie Review: Wolf Children
“Wolf Children” on IMDB Drama/Family, 117 Minutes, 2012 I’ve unfortunately lost track of anime in the last few years. I’d keep up with the latest releases from Studio Ghibli and the odd TV show, but...
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Movie Review: Big Hero 6
“Big Hero 6″ on IMDB Family/Adventure, 102 Minutes, 2014 This was a good movie. A fun movie. No complaints really. Solid, if clichéd, characters, cool visuals and some weepy-eyed moments. Heck, Disney...
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Movie Review: The Book of Life
“The Book of Life” on IMDB Family, 95 Minutes, 2014 Never (yet) having been Hispanic I must admit that my understanding of Día de Muertos (“Day of the Dead”) relies mostly on faded memories of “Grim...
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Movie Review: The Iron Giant: Signature Edition
A Depressed Press SeriesPart 9 of 12 of A.I. Movie Festival“The Iron Giant: Signature Edition” on IMDB Sci-Fi/Thriller, 108 Minutes, 2015 In 1999, untried director Brad Bird [IMDB] convinced Warner...
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Pixar Double Feature: “Inside Out” and “The Good Dinosaur”
After many years building their skills producing award winning short films, Pixar quietly slipped Toy Story [IMDB] onto the big screens in 1995. Initially a curiosity – it was the first feature-length...
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Movie Review: Metropia
“Metropia” on IMDB Mystery/Drama, 86 Minutes, 2009 The trailer for this begins “In a world…”, so you know it’s going to be something different! Or at least a different version of something you’ve seen...
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Movie Review: The Peanuts Movie
“The Peanuts Movie” on IMDB Family/Comedy, 88 Minutes, 2015 I’ve got a soft spot for “The Peanuts”. I’m hardly alone in that. 50 years of comics, dozens of television specials, four feature films, two...
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Movie and Game Review: Ratchet & Clank Reimagined
My son was four in 2002 when Insomniac released the first “Ratchet and Clank” game on the PlayStation 2. He wasn’t truly able to play, but he watched me avidly and was upset if he discovered that I’d...
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Movie Review: Zootopia
“Zootopia” on IMDB Family/Adventure, 108 Minutes, 2016 Consider this: A movie radically changes its premise well over a year into production, with less than 18 months to release. To support this, a...
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