Published March 15, 2021 at ZekeFilm.org. Inside Out Meets Mr. Holland’s Opus in Pixar’s Latest—And Greatest? DIRECTORS: PETE DOCTER AND KEMP POWERS (CO-DIRECTOR)/2020 Plenty of thought (and many a joke) has been put into Pixar’s standard “what if” plot engines: What if monsters and superheroes were real? What if toys and cars were alive? What if bugs or fish or rats had feelings? Heck, what if feelings had feelings? …
Published March 4, 2018 at ZekeFilm.org. Why Edgar Wright and James Gunn Made the Best Musicals of 2017 The Jazz Singer to La La Land, Singin’ in the Rain to Sing Street, Meet Me in St. Louis to Moulin Rouge! Oscar isn’t the only one celebrating a major birthday this weekend—2017 also celebrated the 90th …
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Published Jan. 7, 2018 at ZekeFilm.org. Or, 10 Movies That Aren't Pirates of the Caribbean If my calculations are correct, 2017 was a fantastic year for movies. Yes, yes—any time this writer claims she did “calculations” should be suspect, but how else do you explain that I could have written about the top 30 movies of …
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