Category Archives: Film

Back to the Boys Club 1

We hear that Brenda Chapman, the first woman director at Pixar, has left the studio and is no longer directing Brave. We hear that she was pushed aside from full directing a while back, and that story artist Mark Andrews has taken over directorial duties.

I love my Roku 5

Readers Digest condensed Cliff’s Notes executive summary version: Do you have a Netflix account and a reasonable (1.5 MB/s or better) broadband connection? Then you should have a Roku player. That’s it.

Thoughts on Inception 0

As good as it is, I don’t find Inception to be a perfect film. Some of the things that bothered Prairie bothered me as well as I was watching it. Interestingly, some of these very things end up making more sense — or, at the very least, become less troubling — when viewed in the light of one of the more interesting interpretations of the film.

30 Years of Airplane 0

Possibly one of the funniest films ever made, Airplane!, just turned 30. While I’d read that Airplane! was based on Zero Hour!, I’d never realized just how closely the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team had hewed to the original.

Best Movies of the Decade 1

Three best of the decade lists follow, all yoinked from Slashfilm. For each list, I’ve marked the films I’ve seen and the films we have in our movie collection at home.