Looking for the Ocean: A Pixar Journey

Looking for the Ocean: A Pixar Journey

Join two friends Danny and Mark as they re-watch the entire Pixar catalog. That means features, shorts, tech demos, documentaries, and more. They’ll talk about the history of the company and its style and themes as well as their personal connections to the films they watch as cinema lovers who grew up in the early 2000s.

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January 9, 2026 107 mins

We also discuss our best first watches of 2025! 

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You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and @meyoung on Letterboxd and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.

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Merry Christmas Special! The Simpsons folks also adapted Olive the Other Reindeer! Danny pitches a sequel and we talk Marty Supreme and Frankenstein.

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Regina King’s One Night in Miami… was released in the US in December 2020 and was based on Kemp Powers’ (Soul, Across the Spider-Verse) 2013 play.

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Check out Julius's podcast, The Good Music Show, and the mockumentary they edited, Jeffrey Epstein...

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November 28, 2025 70 mins

DANNY SPOILS GET OUT. To coincide with the release of Zootopia 2, we’re going back in the timeline to the original from 2016!

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Another short from Madeline Sharafian, Pixar’s first gay main character, and TV for cats and babies.

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November 11, 2025 58 mins

Sarah Knauf is back to talk about this year’s Femtober! Legacy sequels, student films, spoilers for Hamnet, Danny has Bane voice, found footage.

https://letterboxd.com/essgeekay/list/femtober-viii-i-know-what-you-did-last-femtober/

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We talk about the first live action film from Brenda Chapman, the co-director of Brave and Prince of Egypt. I put a screenshot of Waffles in the thumbnail to make up for us mostly complaining about AI and capitalism instead.

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The NYC public spectacle group Improv Everywhere made 11 short prank films for Disney+. We basically agree on the quality of the shorts, then we get into it and realize our tastes are opposite.

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An electrical storm knocks out Kevin’s power, but he plugs into a battery and joins us to talk 2020’s We Bare Bears: The Movie, a charming and timely Cartoon Network TV movie from the director of 2026’s Hoppers.

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August 22, 2025 128 mins

Filmmaker Kevin Lau arrives AGAINST ALL ODDS to discuss Onward, Pixar’s last theatrical release before Covid.

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The Playdate with Destiny short premiered with Onward. Let’s do a Simpsons episode!

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Danny and Mark are coming to you at 5:30 AM CT to talk about more Sparkshorts and the future of Pixar following the release of Elio. Danny drops crazy takes before watching James Gunn’s Superman. Also check out the horror short Watermelon: A Cautionary Tale (2019).

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What are you doing here!? You could be watching Women in Love on the Internet Archive!! Well, since you’re here, you can listen to us talk about the Disney+ Forky shorts.

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Enjoy one hour and nineteen minutes of uninterrupted film analysis, rain sounds, thunder sounds, thunderstorm sounds, windows closed, ASMR rain, podcast sounds, podcasting, one hour and nineteen minutes.

Vote for Danny and Shanté as America’s Favorite Couple!: https://americasfavcouple.org/2025/the-vincents-4

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Congratulations to David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds on being the highest grossing original movie since Inception! We talk about that and some of the movies to come out of Pixar’s co-op and SparkShorts programs!

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We made a commentary track for Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs (2015), the first movie the two of us watched together! Hang out with us while we discuss the last three years, Pixar Bests and Worsts, and iF a GreAt MaN sHouLd aLSo bE a GoOd PeRsoNnnnn.

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We are joined by REAL COMICS SCHOLAR Natalie Beglin, and the Utah Film Critics Circle catches Danny’s strays.

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You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.

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You won’t believe which one we talk about most.

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You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.

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Editor and co-host of The Good Music Podcast Danny Robbins is here to talk Cynics and Believers! Contains MINECRAFT SPOILERS [28.00-29.00].

The Good Music Podcast Links!: https://linktr.ee/thegmspod

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April Fools! Mark finally agrees to cover Moana. And we answer the question, who is the most charismatic actor: The Rock or Joaquin Phoenix?

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You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.

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