Monsters University was greeted the same way that Brave was by critics and moviegoers alike: “It was cute. It would’ve been really good for a Disney movie, but it wasn’t what we expected from a Pixar movie.” The statement is, of course, doubly patronizing, and rather more unfair to one than the other. As hard as it is… Read More The Sorrows of Aging Pixar
Disclaimer: The People vs. George Lucas is one of my sources for quotes in this article, but I’m also leaning heavily on Peter Biskind’s absolutely masterful account of Hollywood from roughly 1965 to 1985, a book called Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. Seriously, if you haven’t read that before, stop reading this and read that instead. I’ve read it several… Read More The People vs. George Lucas (2010)
I like to think that an omniscient God has a master list of every science-fiction film that has ever been made or will ever be made, and this list is ordered from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Plan 9 from Outer Space. While sci-fi is particularly fecund ground for bad film, Star Trek Into Darkness has to be a… Read More Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Seeing Things Secondhand 