Inside

When director Kelsey Mann took the helm on Pixar’s Inside Out 2, Pixar chief creative officer Pete Docter had one big suggestion for him. Before taking that role, Docter directed many of the studio’s greatest hits, including the original…

Pixar’s Inside Out left a twofold legacy in the animation world. Some people think of it as a poignant movie about the necessity of sadness that turned abstract psychological theories into whimsical set-pieces and a resonant storyline.…

Pixar’s 2015 movie Inside Out extended the studio’s proven story formula to its logical end point by asking the question What if emotions had emotions? The result is a poignant, whimsical adventure that delves into the mind of an…

With eyes as round as grapes and lips too small to do anything but pout, Blythe dolls look like sullen angels. Those haunted stares work to their advantage in a crowded market; Blythes have spent the past 23 years charming a dedicated…

After some teases, Pixar has revealed the rest of the new emotions in Inside Out 2. The first trailer introduced Anxiety (Maya Hawke), the bundle of nerves who’s most likely going to guide Riley through her awkward teenage years. And in…

On a planet that is not our own, in a timeline very different from ours, the last heirs of aristocracy cling to the shadows of a secluded mountain valley known as the Dramark. It’s only deep within the valley that a tiny, proud crust of…

There was a moment near the end of Cocoon when my brain could not keep up with the game. Like being curled up in a wave and then flipped head over heels against the surf, my mind sluggishly tried to work backwards what precisely had just…