Tag: John Lasseter

Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Cars 2

Posted: June 24, 2011 at 12:05 am   /   Another Take From Zac, Local, Movie Reviews

Cars 2 is fun, funny, fast paced, and an exciting spy movie that improves upon the original Cars and has fun with the genre its playing in; while turning in some quality set pieces that a lot of action movies wish they had. The original Cars has grown on me every time I’ve seen it […]

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Disney-Pixar’s “Cars 2” Opens June 24! Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!

Posted: June 14, 2011 at 2:38 pm   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter for your chance to win a pass, good for two! Synopsis: Star racecar Lightning McQueen and the incomparable tow truck Mater take their friendship to exciting new places when they head overseas to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix to determine the world’s fastest car. But the road to the championship is filled […]

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DVD Review – “Waking Sleeping Beauty”

Posted: December 9, 2010 at 9:46 am   /   Film, Local

I briefly talked about Waking Sleeping Beauty last week in my “DVD Picks of the Week” so I don’t want to reiterate everything I said before.  But the main point is that I love Disney musicals, and as soon as I saw the trailer I was dying to see it.  After getting a chance to […]

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Another Take By Zac: Film Review: Tangled

Posted: November 24, 2010 at 5:13 pm   /   Another Take From Zac, Local

Disney’s Tangled is the studio’s best computer animated effort yet and continues to show that John Lasseter’s control over the Mouse House animation team is a brilliant move in the right direction.  Having said that, there is still room for improvement in Tangled but as it stands it is still a very entertaining and attractive […]

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New “Cars 2” HD Trailer

Posted: November 16, 2010 at 10:57 am   /   Local, Movie Trailers

[hdplay id=194 width=595 height=375] Synopsis: Star racecar Lightning McQueen and the incomparable tow truck Mater take their friendship to exciting new places in “Cars 2” when they head overseas to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix to determine the world’s fastest car. But the road to the championship is filled with plenty of potholes, […]

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Henry Selick Signs Deal With Disney

Posted: April 2, 2010 at 2:13 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Coraline director Henry Selick has signed a long term deal that will see him to return to Disney. The deal will allow Selick to work from his own studio in the Bay Area on both original and literary properties. The director will be making stop motion features for the animation giant. Selick got his start […]

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Disney pulls ‘Wedding Banned’

Posted: December 14, 2009 at 4:27 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Well, one thing can be said about Disney’s studio chairman Rich Ross, he doesn’t seem gun shy about moving or taking things out of production. Just announced was that the Robin Williams, Anna Faris, and Diane Keaton Wedding Banned was pulled from its slate. My first thought was because of the poor showing of the […]

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Disney’s The Princess and the Frog – Movie Review

Posted: December 11, 2009 at 10:04 pm   /   Local, Tom O'Keefe Movie Reviews

When Pixar wiz kid John Lasseter took over as Walt Disney Studios CEO, he made an interesting announcement: he wanted Disney to get back into traditionally animated films.  It was interesting in so much as conventional industry wisdom was that kids today no longer wanted hand drawn cartoons, preferring instead the computer animation of movies […]

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Disney’s ‘The Princess and The Frog’ animators Bruce Smith and Randy Haycock Interview

Posted: December 11, 2009 at 4:51 pm   /   Interviews, Local

A couple weeks ago Disney sent out some of their animators on a press tour to promote Disney’s return to traditional 2D hand drawn animation. St. Louis members of the press and I were lucky enough to interview two of the animators who worked on the film. Both seemed very enthusiastic about Disney’s return to […]

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The Princess and the Frog

Posted: December 11, 2009 at 12:01 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

The Princess and the Frog isn’t a return to the brilliant early 90’s heyday of Disney Animation, but it is for sure a huge step in the right direction. Twisting the classic tale of The Frog Princess on its head this version of the classic fairytale has the “princess” turn into a frog when she […]

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