100 Film Favorites – #9: Bedknobs & Broomsticks (Robert Stevenson, 1971) The year is 1940, and the place Pepperinge Eye, a tiny village on the coast of England. Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury), a middle-aged local woman, reluctantly takes in a trio of London orphans relocated to escape German bombings. Ms. Price views the children as…
100 Film Favorites – #17: Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, 1999) “When somebody loved me, everything was beautiful. Every hour we spent together lives within my heart.” And so we come to the highest-ranking (fully) animated film of the Countdown. Let me be clear: I love animation, and could talk at length about many animated…
100 Film Favorites – #30: WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008) In today’s entry, Pixar does post-apocalyptic. I think I was in love with this movie from its opening instant. A shout of “Out there…” from Michael Crawford (the original Broadway “Phantom”) accompanies the sudden appearance of a spectacular stellar panorama. The song “Put On Your Sunday…
100 Film Favorites – #34: Follow Me, Boys! / Mr. Holland’s Opus (Norman Tokar, 1966 / Stephen Herek, 1995) “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” Today we come to the Countdown’s one and only double feature. I know this technically pushes the grand total to 101 Film Favorites, but…
100 Film Favorites – #35: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, 2003) Originally, I prefaced this entry with some information about how posts were going up daily over here on EarnThis, and that the new site offered “an improved, multimedia Brian Terrill Movie Night experience devoid of typos.” Hopefully…
100 Film Favorites – #41: Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995) In the last post I mentioned a relative shortage of Disney so far (well, except for Dead Man’s Chest, Holes, Ernest Saves Christmas (through Touchstone), Atlantis, Wreck-It Ralph, Mickey’s Christmas Carol, Darby O’ Gill & The Little People, and National Treasure) Okay, so maybe there…
100 Film Favorites – #42: Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise, 1991) “No one plots like Gaston, takes cheap shots like Gaston, plans to persecute harmless crackpots like Gaston.” I don’t know about you, but I have a weakness for those “my year in review” Facebook apps that gather up your old…
100 Film Favorites – #55: Darby O’Gill and the Little People (Robert Stevenson, 1959) Thus far in the Countdown, we’ve seen several holiday specials: One Halloween, one Thanksgiving, and two Christmases. Now we come to a film that, while not explicitly holiday-specific, is my go-to St. Patrick’s Day movie. Darby O’Gill and the Little People…
100 Film Favorites – #68: Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Gary Tousdale & Kirk Wise, 2001) Lots of colons in titles these last few days. Atlantis: The Lost Empire is one of the less-remembered entries in the Disney animated features canon from the last few decades. It may not be as obscure as The Black Cauldron,…
Rating: 3.5 stars (out of 4) A Goofy Movie is the outcast of the 1995 Disney movies. It was not nearly as acclaimed as Toy Story nor as popular as Pocahontas. Because it was made by Disney Toon studios and is an extension of an already-established property, it wasn’t even inducted into the official animated…