Tag: WALL-E

• Talkin’ WALL-E

  In January, my Cinema Sugar compadre Kevin and I went on the Baby’s First Watchlist podcast to talk all things WALL-E as a tie-in with Animation Month. It was my first time as a podcast guest and was a lot of fun. They pulled out a few clips to share on social media that included…

  Feb 23, 2024

  # Cinema Sugar, film, movies, Pixar, podcasts, WALL-E

• Stargazing with WALL-E

  Spent the holiday weekend at my wife’s family’s beach community, where they do a fireworks show every year on the beach. (Read my 2017 reflection about this experience.) Though it was fun to watch Little Man experience fireworks for the first time, my personal highlight was being able to see the clear night sky without…

  Jul 7, 2021

  # beach, children, film, IPC, life, movies, Pixar, toddlers, WALL-E

• Revisiting my top films of 2008

  Ten years ago I ranked my top 10 films of 2008. (I also started filmlogging.) Since last year’s revisit of my top films of 2007 was so fun, I thought I’d make this an annual tradition. Here’s my original 2008 list: Lots of interesting choices here. Kinda shocked Happy-Go-Lucky was so high and that Milk…

  Sep 10, 2018

  # best of, film, lists, movies, Summer Hours, WALL-E

• 7 Beautiful Movie Music Moments

  Sometimes we as moviegoers have to let movies affect us in ways we cannot explain or control. One of those ways is through music. Whether it is an epic orchestral theme or a lone piano suite, music in the movies can make the difference in how I respond to the story. Listening to a CD…

  Dec 4, 2011

  # Alan Silvestri, Cast Away, film, Glen Hansard, Howard Shore, lists, Lord of the Rings, movies, music, Once, Philip Glass, Remember the Titans, The Truman Show, Trevor Rabin, WALL-E

• Best Films of the 2000s

  The Lives of Others (2006) – A German film about a surveillance expert who spies on a playwright in Communist Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Lives of Others won the Best Foreign film at the Oscars and for good reason. Unbearably suspenseful and surprisingly moving, The Lives of Others shows that…

  Dec 30, 2009

  # best of, Children of Men, film, High Fidelity, In America, lists, Memento, movies, Once, review, The Lives of Others, Unbreakable, WALL-E, Zodiac

• Oh, Oscars, How Do I Loathe Thee?

  Published in the North Central Chronicle on January 30, 2009. Let me count the ways… 1. You want normal people to like you, but you fail to acknowledge what people like. In the past, you’ve been excused from this because most of the time the highest grossing film of year wasn’t worthy of awards. But…

  Jan 28, 2009

  # film, movies, NCC Chronicle, Oscars, The Dark Knight, WALL-E

• Best Films of 2008

  1. WALL-E By far the boldest movie of the year. The wordless first half-hour is delectably good and a bit subversive too. The plot sags once the robots leave Earth, but it remains a beauty to behold. I was surprised at how emotionally invested I was in those cute little robots. It’s certainly a better…

  Jan 3, 2009

  # best of, film, Happy Go Lucky, In Bruges, lists, Man On Wire, movies, NCC Chronicle, review, Shotgun Stories, The Dark Knight, WALL-E