Tag: Ratatouille

• Ratatouille

  Rewatching Ratatouille recently made me think of a line from the Guardians of the Galaxy Honest Trailer, which portrays Marvel as so dominant and drunk on its own power—and its fans so eager—that a weird movie with a trash-talking raccoon and monosyllabic tree can be a smash success. Their tongue-in-cheek name for the studio: “F—…

  Mar 6, 2023

  # film, Marvel, movies, Pixar, Ratatouille, review

• What practical lessons have you learned from movies?

  A while back I started keeping a list of things I’ve learned from movies. Not grand philosophical lessons about life and love and all that, but practical, everyday stuff. Stuff I’ve integrated into my life specifically because I saw it in a movie. I thought I should share what I’ve accumulated thus far, assuming that…

  Apr 3, 2020

  # Children of Men, film, lists, movies, Ratatouille, Titanic, Zombieland

• All Animated Films Are Not Created Equal

  Originally published in the North Central Chronicle in October 2008. Are all movies created equal? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) doesn’t think so. With the creation of the Best Animated Feature category at the Academy Awards, animated movies that deserve to be nominated for Best Picture are unfairly pigeon-holed into this…

  Oct 5, 2008

  # Academy Awards, animation, Disney, film, movies, NCC Chronicle, Oscars, Pixar, Ratatouille, Toy Story

• Listen Up, Academy…

  My 2007 ACADEMY AWARD PICKS: Best Picture Who will win: No Country for Old Men Who should win: No Country for Old Men Best Director Who will win: The Coen Brothers for No Country for Old Men Who should win: The Coen Brothers Best Actor Who will win: Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood…

  Feb 19, 2008

  # Academy Awards, film, movies, No Country For Old Men, Once, Oscars, Ratatouille, Sweeney Todd, There Will Be Blood

• Best Films of 2007

  Note: See an updated version of this list. 1) The Lives of OthersThis German film won Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars last year, and boy, did it deserve it. Set in East Berlin during the Cold War, involving a member of the German secret police who spies on a dissident writer and soon finds…

  Feb 1, 2008

  # best of, film, Juno, lists, movies, NCC Chronicle, No Country For Old Men, Once, Ratatouille, review, The Lives of Others, Waitress, Zodiac