I'd say it's probably about on par with Finding Nemo (similarly formulaic but also similar emotional strong points). Not Pixar's best by any stretch, but still within the range of "Pixar quality" and we wouldn't be complaining about it quite as much if Cars 2 and the very public behind the scenes drama turned us so…

Think you might do something on Hetalia for this feature? The fifth season's going to be starting soon.

@avclub-51bd987933e42dce992d450b858b277a:disqus But King's Speech and The Artist are solidly good movies without any real serious problems, which cannot be said of the YOU LIKE SONGS SHOT ENTIRELY IN CLOSEUPS AT DUTCH ANGLES? HERE, HAVE 40 OF 'EM! style of Les Mis. And Les Mis isn't a Weinstein movie; Django Unchained…

I'm sure he'd be tiring to hang out with for any extended period of time (unless you were working with him, which would probably be awesome). But a 15-30 minute interview seems perfectly enjoyable.

I'm hoping Tom Hooper gets snubbed like at the Globes. Almost everything that was great in Les Mis can be traced to people other than him and most of it faults lay at his feet, plus he stole that Oscar from Fincher a few years back, so he doesn't deserve it at all.

I really liked Frankenweenie too. And Arrietty. And Pirates. And even Brave, despite the bum rap it gets due to not being as good as Wall-E or Toy Story 3. This was a damn good year for animated films. And if you count movies released on DVD this year, then Redline towers over all.

Skyfall's the obvious one, since the Academy's never shown much love to Bond. Other than that, Moonrise Kingdom, since the Academy's never shown much love to Wes Anderson either.

Nah, Beasts was the best. Avengers was my second favorite of the year, though, so I'd have liked to see it nominated (I guess they only wanted to nominate one popcorn action film and they picked Skyfall instead).

Of course the producers weren't going to award an expensive money-loser.

I admit it was kind of hard to buy nice Jewish boy Jonah Hill as a Klansman, but hearing the scene was inspired by a story about John Ford, an Irish Catholic, starring as a Klansman in Birth of a Nation, the weird casting made more sense.

If anything, Spike Lee should be happy that Tarantino is treating slavery in this movie basically the same way he treated the Holocaust in his last movie, proving he understands that they were similarly heinous.

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Django Unchained
5. Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2
6. Jackie Brown
7. Death Proof

Yeah, it is. Even the much-praised cinematography's not that great compared to what the Expressionists were doing in Germany just a few years before. Ebert's review is pretty spot-on.

Really, I thought the slavery scenes weren't fetishized or a joke at all. They were incredibly disturbing, and from what I hear they were holding back from including everything they found in their research. A world of difference between those scenes and the fun classic-Tarantino violence in the shoot-out.

I love seeing Tarantino's interviews. But then again I'm a nerd with Aspergers and that's how he comes off to me.

Other than the music, everything that's awesome about it is due to the animation. So remaking it with mo-cap kills half of what's enjoyable about it.

It was put on hold due to Hurricane Sandy ironically destroying the arc.

It was put on hold due to Hurricane Sandy ironically destroying the arc.

Monster's Inc got a 3D rerelease.

Monster's Inc got a 3D rerelease.