Props to WALL-E, Michael and A.O.
I did not realize that Ben Mankiewicz and Ben Lyons had been replaced as hosts of “At The Movies,” the show formerly known as “Siskel & Ebert” and “Ebert & Roeper” before Roger Ebert’s thyroid cancer surgery left him unable to speak.
I like Ben Mankiewicz as a host on Turner Classic Movies, and I used [...]
More on WALL-E
Here’s a great review of WALL-E from a United Methodist web site. An excerpt:
Where the movie really shines—and where it is most daring—is in the two leads. Most of Wall•E is completely free of dialogue, leaving the robots and others to express themselves entirely in body language. Wall•E, a perpetual klutz, comes to resemble the [...]
WALL-E (No spoilers)
It’s the law of averages; one of these days, the folks at Pixar Animation Studios are going to fire a dud. Maybe it will be a first-class stinker; maybe it will just cause people to shrug and say “that’s not up to their usual standard.”
Whenever that may happen, it did not happen in 2008.
WALL-E is [...]
Stanton
There aren’t many people who could be interviewed by both Christianity Today and the Onion AV Club and sound completely at home in either place.
I may have to go see Wall*E tomorrow night.
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