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This website and writer has long celebrated the “Pixar Punch,” the animation studio’s uncanny ability to absolutely destroy our hearts with raw and simple emotionality in perfectly calculated amounts and moments within their feature films. In quicker chunks of time, Pixar’s animated shorts are no slouch at hitting the same body blows. Their settings have always been warm and sunny family films, long begging the question of what would more adult fare look like in the same creative boxing gloves. “Borrowed Time” is a striking glimpse into such a possibility

2016, 4 STARS, Independent Film, SHORT FILMS, MOVIE REVIEW, Social MediaDon ShanahanDecember 6, 2016Short Film, short film commentary, short film review, Short films, animated films, Best Animated Short Film, Best Animated Short, animated shorts, animated short films, Pixar, Pixar Punch, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Quorum Films, Borrowed Time, western genre, western themes, life lessons from movies, life lessons, life lessons from films, life lessons from film, life lessons from short films, life lessons from animated films, life lessons from animated shorts, Gustavo Santaolalla, Brokeback Mountain, Babel, Oscar contenders, Oscar nominations, Lou Hamou-Lhadj, Andrew Coats, Amanda Deering Jones, Blue Sky Studios, Finding Dory, Piper, Moana, Inner Workings, film reivew, film review, film commentary, Don Shanahan, Donald Shanahan, Every Movie Has a LessonComment

MOVIE REVIEW: In a Valley of Violence

“In a Valley of Violence” lives up to the promised bloodshed suggested by its title and spins its own brand of tension and, best of all, a frank and bone-dry humor that blows into the whole film. You will either love the comedic edge or find it a distraction from the revenge. There is an undeniable panache to the absurdity that makes the film an absolute hoot. This is the giddy Western Quentin Tarantino wishes he could make while he wastes six hours of our time and stretched disbelief.