Directed by Brad Bird You know how sometimes we read stuff off the internet and then parrot it back as our own opinion? Or maybe it's a movie, a podcast, a book or really anything else. It could just be what you overhear someone say. It's like there's a subject on which you have no … Continue reading Tomorrowland (2015)
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The Iron Giant (1999)
Directed by Brad Bird The Iron Giant lands in tiny Rockwell, Maine. It's a fishing village, and the intimacy of such a small town allows for a good microcosm of America at the time as a whole. The story takes place in 1957, a time smothered in post World War II paranoia, but our perspective … Continue reading The Iron Giant (1999)
The Incredibles 2 (2018)
Directed by Brad Bird There's a lot to like in The Incredibles 2, so much so that I feel like my relative disappointment with the film is my fault. The story is fun and entertaining, and early reviews raved about the movie, but half of the story feels innovative, true to the core of what The Incredibles is … Continue reading The Incredibles 2 (2018)
The Incredibles (2004)
Directed by Brad Bird What year does The Incredibles take place? It doesn't much matter, but I'm curious about the world design. Old video footage of the "supers" heyday crackles with film grain, while the plot, taking place 15 years after our introduction to Mr. and Mrs. Incredible, looks to occur in the 1960s but with … Continue reading The Incredibles (2004)
