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Blog Entries by Dan Persons from 12/2010

The Cinefantastique Review: Tangled

| Posted 12.06.2010

For their 50th animated feature film, Walt Disney Pictures presents Tangled -- a CGI modernization of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Rapunzel." Is thi...

The Cinefantastique Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

| Posted 12.13.2010

Can the forces of darkness be vanquished by only a pair of Narnia royalty, where four were needed before? Does the film profit or lose by running a half-hour less than its predecessors?

Cinefantastique Post-Mortem: Special Stream-of-Consciousness Episode, Featuring The Tempest

| Posted 12.17.2010

Having survived the rocky shoals of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Steve Biodrowski, Lawrence French, and Dan Persons decid...

Cinefantastique Podcast: Tron: Legacy

| Posted 12.20.2010

In the latest episode of the "The Cinefantastique Podcast" Steve Biodrowski, Lawrence French, and Dan Persons attempt to build their own consensual reality after a viewing of "Tron: Legacy".

Brad Bird on The Iron Giant

| Posted 12.21.2010

Despite poor marketing, director Brad Bird's animated tale of a young boy who bonds with a gentle, metal-eating robot was championed as an animation classic. I got an opportunity to talk with Bird.

Cinefantastique Post-Mortem: Yogi Bear; Original Tron; and Best Laid Plans

| Posted 12.27.2010

In the place of a Cinefantastique Podcast in which we discuss our top ten lists for 2010, we give you a Cinefantastique Post-Mortem in which we discuss doing a show in which we discuss our top ten lists for 2010.

Mike Leigh on Another Year

| Posted 12.29.2010

Is it marketing genius on the part of Sony Classics that they usher in 2011 with a film called Another Year? Nah, more likely they just wanted to get Oscar tongues a-buzzing for Mike Leigh's latest glimpse into joys, pains, hopes, and desperations of ordinary life.