Director Brad Bird

"...in no small measure to the skill of director Brad Bird, who cut his teeth working for Disney at..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Screens Feature

Tomorrowland

Seeming more like a calculation than a flight of fancy, this adventure tale has both hits and misses

"...Directed by: Brad Bird. Starring: George Clooney, Hugh Laurie, Britt Robertson, Raffey..."

May 22, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

This fourth entry in the Tom Cruise film franchise is the best of the bunch; it's wacky and keen to please.

"...Directed by: Brad Bird. Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Paula..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Incredibles

Animated take on the superhero genre overflows with wonderfully silly shenanigans and knowing insight into modern parenting.

"...Directed by: Brad Bird. An order-of-magnitude leap forward in animated storytelling, this..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ratatouille

Pixar scores another triumph of animated wonder with this story of a rat who craves haute cuisine over garbage.

"...Directed by: Brad Bird. Brad Bird's first feature-length animated film, The Iron..."

June 29, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Building The Iron Giant

Tim McCanlies talks behind-the-scenes of the animated classic

"...As told by McCanlies and his co-writer/director Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol), the..."

Sept. 7, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

More McCanlies, Texas

The full interview with the director of 'Secondhand Lions'

"...the golden age of animation. "Look, this guy named Brad Bird just told us how to do Iron Giant,..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Iron Giant

If the top-notch story weren't enough, the film also boasts some spectacular animation and a great score.

"...Directed by: Brad Bird. Stephen King's 1981 treatise on the nature of..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Incredibles 2

Pixar's superhero family returns with familiar but still welcome action

"...Directed by: Brad Bird...."

June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Wild Hogs

John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, and William H. Macy star as middle-aged friends who seek life's purpose while on a cross-country motorcycle trip.

"...Hogs remains firmly rooted in the lowbrow. The writer (Brad Copeland, seasoned from TV’s Arrested Development and My Name..."

March 2, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Dark Side of the Potterverse

Brad Neely's 'Wizard People, Dear Readers' and the volatility of artistic alchemy

"...Yes! Yes to life! And yes to magic! – Brad Neely, Wizard People, Dear Readers..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

McCanlies, Texas

Tim McCanlies is known in the movie business as a great script writer with few scripts that have actually hit the big screen. With the Sept. 19 release of Secondhand Lions, long thought to be one of the best unproduced scripts around, that will change.

"...got a call one day from Warner's Feature Animation: "Brad Bird just told us how to do Iron Giant,..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Encounters at the End of the World

Werner Herzog, contemporary cinema's most consistently lyrical examiner of the (in)human condition, returns to the documentary form in yet another wonderfully improbable locale: Antarctica.

"...abandoned the Earth altogether in favor of a space-y Brad Dourif (The Wild Blue Yonder). Here, Herzog travels to..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Iron Writer

"...place John Cheever might have invented. The film's director, Brad Bird (see sidebar), and McCanlies gave Hughes' story an..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

Onward

Pixar’s latest fantasy can’t conjure up that magic we expect

"...Pixar and its helmspeople’s greatest achievements, i.e., almost everything Brad Bird or Andrew Stanton have had a hand in..."

March 6, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Medium Is the Message

The co-director of Inside Out talks shop

"...Burton, Will Hanna (of Hanna-Barbera fame), The Iron Giant's Brad Bird, and, of course, the legendarily unstoppable stop-motion mastermind..."

June 19, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Frankenweenie

Tim Burton’s animated, black-and-white movie about a boy and his dog is sweetly filtered through the lens of Frankenstein and other famous monsters.

"...(Burton aficionados will also note the influence of the Brad Bird-created, Burton/Steven Spielberg-produced, cel-animated series Family Dog.) Filmed in..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

John Carter

Old-school "Gosh, wow!" sense-of-wonder filmmaking is in short supply these days, but now John Carter has arrived to fill the void.

"...foray into a live-action Hollywood blockbuster (the first was Brad Bird's Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol), John Carter is..."

March 9, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Battle for Terra

An animated tale of a peace-loving race of creatures known as Terrians, who are invaded by alien humans.

"...in common – philosophically, at least – with the Brad Bird-directed, Tim McCanlies-scripted The Iron Giant than it does..."

May 1, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

WALL-E

By turns sad, hilarious, exciting, and ultimately, hopeful, this is a film of Great Truths masquerading as child's play.

"...(There's also a Sputnik-y shout-out to The Iron Giant's Brad Bird.) But sci-fi aside, WALL-E is a love story,..."

June 27, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Superhero Movie

Superhero Movie is a tonally confused spoof, which, for once, doesn't go far enough comedically.

"...if anything, they did on their days off. After Brad Bird's untoppable The Incredibles, this vein of humorous pathos..."

April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shark Tale

Animated Shark Tale lacks bite.

"...find themselves looking at their watches and wondering when Brad Bird’s The Incredibles is due in theatres...."

Oct. 8, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...GET REAL D: Simon Shore; with Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Charlotte Brittain...."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Not Enough Cooks

Janeane Garofalo discusses Ratatouille, stirs up trouble

"...an adult who's looking for a million meanings from Brad Bird and Brad Lewis, and you will be satisfied...."

June 29, 2007 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., and Vin Diesel. Directed by Brad Bird. At the time of its release, this animated..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Unleashing the Summer Blockbusters

Your cinematic calendar for the must-see big releases

"...Incredibles 2 (Buena Vista, PG) Brad Bird and Pixar bring back the first family of..."

May 18, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Paramount Summer Classic Film Series: Mavericks

The Iron Giant, Poltergeist, Jaws, Pretty Woman

"...Hughes and the space-born behemoth at the heart of Brad Bird's animated feature is entertainment enough, but the film's..."

May 15, 2015 Screens Feature by Jason Stout

Paramount Announces Summer Film Lineup

An embarrassment of cinematic riches await

"...sneak preview on May 23, with The Iron Giant, Brad Bird’s much beloved 1999 animated classic about a boy..."

May 12, 2015 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

'The World Is Making Us Look Bad'

Can two failed ideas ever amount to greatness without creating more junk?

"...show reach a more finished state than others. Writer/director Brad Bird cherishes the extraordinary in his Pixar/Disney favorites, The..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Arts Review by Salvador Castillo

There Will Be Film

"...Savages (Tamara Jenkins), I'm Not There (Todd Haynes), Ratatouille (Brad Bird)..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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