In the echelons of great Pixar movies, it is sometimes easy to be forgotten, particularly when your stars are the size of, well, bugs. That is the problem that faces A Bug’s Life, Pixar’s sophomore feature. It is a fantastically original movie, simply released at the wrong time. More on that later. As a reminder,… Read More "1998 in Review: …
Author: Josh Walbert
We Miss VHS: ‘RocketMan’ (1997)
Space was always a fascinating topic for me. Not interesting enough for me to ever aspire to astronautdom but interesting enough that I ate up any space-based media I could. One of the first that I fell in love with was RocketMan starring Harland Williams. It was a Disney movie (check), featured fart jokes (check),… Read More "We Miss VHS: …
We Miss VHS! A Retrospective Series from We Bought a Blog
As a kid I was spoiled. I’ll admit it. During family vacations, before having an overhead TV and DVD player in your family car was mainstream, my dad had jerry-rigged a portable TV and VCR that allowed me to while away the long hours on car rides. During these trips, I had my go-to movies.… Read More "We Miss VHS! …
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VHS Retrospective: ‘Gone Fishin’
As a kid I was spoiled. I’ll admit it. During family vacations, before having an overhead TV and DVD player in your family car was mainstream, my dad had jerry-rigged a portable TV and VCR that allowed me to while away the long hours on car rides. During these trips, I had my go-to movies.… Read More "VHS Retrospective: ‘Gone Fishin’"
Mission: Impossible by the Numbers
Early word is that Tom Cruise’s latest installment in the very successful "Mission: Impossible" series – itself based on a television show; see my thoughts on that here – is the most exciting in the series. Rather than lose wind as the franchise continues on, it seems to pick up speed. The new films ups… Read More "Mission: Impossible by …
Prequels, Sequels, Reboots, and Remakes
In my recent retrospective on "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," I began with a short blurb on my take on reboots, remakes, prequels, and sequels. "Reboots and remakes, even sequels, are often lauded by nearly everyone as unnecessary. Calls of “we’ve seen this already” or “it was better when” often prelude… Read More "Prequels, Sequels, Reboots, …
MCU: The Television Dimension
In 2013, after the worldwide phenomenon known as Marvel's The Avengers proved that the MCU's multi-property shared universe plan was successful cinematically, the Marvel think tank determined the next experiment would be to stretch the stories to television and streaming. Spurred on by the success of the Marvel One-Shots – short vignettes featured on the… Read More "MCU: The Television Dimension"
