Where the Wild Things Are
Spike Jonze interprets Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story and accidentally produces a subtle and nuanced experience for the adult.
Tag: Finding Nemo
WALL•E
An A-dorable robot attempts to save Earth and win his lady love. Julie Haverkate is surprised by WALL E’s order of priorities, and she thinks you will be too.
Varkentine on Film 2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Finding Nemo, and… you mean there were other movies released in the theaters, on DVD, or shown on cable last year? Ben Varkentine insists that this is so.
Finding Nemo
Original Soundtrack by Thomas Newman (Disney-Pixar). Review by Ben Varkentine.
Makin’ Toons
On the one Mickey Mouse hand, Makin’ Toons: Inside the Most Popular Animated TV Shows & Movies is the first real successor in interest to Leonard Maltin’s great study of the first 75 years of American animated cartoons, Of Mice And Magic. On the other, it calls The Simpsons “inarguably the finest prime-time animated series ever made.” Ben Varkentine gets animated.
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