Posts Tagged ‘UP!’

Academy Awards Nominations Announced

In Art, fame, Film, News, TV on 2 February 2010 tagged "An Education", 2010 Academy Awards, 82nd Academy Awards, A Serious Man, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Avatar, District 9, Golden Raspberry Awards, Inglorious Basterds, James Cameron, Mo'Nique, Nine, Oscars, Penelope Cruz, Precious, Samuel Goldwyn Theater, Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker, The Razzie Awards, Tom Sherak, Up in the Air, UP! with 2 comments

Anne Hathaway and Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences President, Tom Sherak announced the nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California. Unfortunately Afghan Star, Where The Wild Things Are, and Spike Jonze were all snubbed while the Academy feasted on whatever hallucinogenic bait Sandra Bullock was [...]

Pixar Proves You Can Go UP! But Never Back

In Art, cartoon, Film, Music, novel, Opinion, pictures on 30 May 2009 tagged animation, Annie Lennox, Bob Peterson, books, Carl Fredrickson, Christopher Plummer, Disney, Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, Mr. Fredrickson, Mrs. Bentley, Pavement Cracks, Pixar, Russell, UP! with no comments

Watching UP! today reminded me of a story in Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine. Mr. Fredrickson meets Mrs. Bentley: You can only be what you are here and now. Where is my comfort zone? A simple place to call my own ‘Cause everything I wanna be Comes crashing down on me And it don‘t show up [...]