Brave (Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman, 2012)

Brave  is at once the most visually distinctive project Pixar has yet made and their most derivative work. Slightly dimmed as if filmed by n...

Day & Night (Teddy Newton, 2010)

[The following is an entry in Pussy Goes Grrr's Short Animation Blogathon, running April 23-27.] My first experience with short animatio...

A Bug's Life

Following the game-changing success of Toy Story , Pixar still had something to prove but also won themselves a great deal more breathing ro...

Toy Story 3

About a month ago, I received an email from a reporter for RTE, Irish national radio, asking -- to my complete surprise -- for an interview ...

Wall•E

Depending on one's perspective, Wall•E is either Pixar's towering achievement or definitive proof of the studio's "overrat...

Toy Story 1 & 2

Looking back on Pixar's first film, Toy Story 's impact on the field of animation has largely overshadowed its lingering worth as a ...

Up

Only Pixar could make an animated film about a man who soars above the rain forests of South America in his own house realistic. Up follows...