Tag: 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…

  July 7, 2021

  Film, Life

  IPC, movies, toddlers, 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…

  December 4, 2011

  Film, Music

  Alan Silvestri, Cast Away, Glen Hansard, Howard Shore, lists, Lord of the Rings, 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…

  December 30, 2009

  Film

  Children of Men, In America, Memento, Once, review, The Lives of Others, Unbreakable, WALL-E, Zodiac

• 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…

  January 3, 2009

  Film

  Happy Go Lucky, In Bruges, Man On Wire, NCC Chronicle, review, Shotgun Stories, The Dark Knight, WALL-E

• What’s Going On?

  Haven’t been on much—camp is keeping me busy. It is nice, though, to be able to unplug from the world for a while and not be able to check your email and keep up on the news even if you want to. Here’s a few thoughts on random stuff: —The Dark Knight was just amazing. I’m…

  July 26, 2008

  Film, Life, Sports, Television

  Brett Favre, Richard Roeper, Roger Ebert, The Dark Knight, WALL-E