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Entries Tagged as 'Peter O'Toole'

Ratatouille (2007, Brad Bird)

July 2nd, 2007 No Comments

While Ratatouille features Pixar’s finest three-dimensional CG, it also features their worst two dimensional characters. The problem’s apparent from the start–the main character has one conflict and it turns out to resolve itself quite easily in the end. There are other conflicts in the film, but they’re all external to the main character, Remy–whose name […]

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How to Steal a Million (1966, William Wyler)

December 3rd, 2005 No Comments

I think I might hate ‘cute.’ Or at least the pseudo-realistic ‘cute’ that permeated film through the 1950s and 1960s, when the films became so much about enjoying the actors’ charisma, there was no sense of any reality to the films’ situations and conflicts. In that way, How to Steal a Million is an interesting […]

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