Selected Shorts: More BETTIES
My assessment of the Fleischers as overrated earlier might seem harsh, but sampling five of…
Taco Break: Off-The-Shelf Storytelling
I’ve talked before about my fascination with stories that lift from garbage, and now I…
Selected Shorts: SNOW WHITE
Snow White is a mind-boggling film…When Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel created Un Chien Andalou…
Celebrating the Living: Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder has a lot more movie credits now that IMDb has started listing music…
Attention Must Be Paid: Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald deserves our attention regardless of whether she ever actually appeared in a movie…
Disney Byways: “Mickey’s Mechanical Man”
How old is this short? It’s so old that it falls exactly in the gap…
The Friday Article Roundup: No Objections
This Week You Will Learn: What place a pink fuzzy pen has in law Why…
Miller’s 2021 Double Features: Every Day We Profit So
Movies talk to each other. What did the films of 2021 have to say? This…
Someone Is Watching You in San Francisco
One of the strongest themes of twentieth century fiction is paranoia. Goodness knows it’s not…
Year of the Month: Persia on THE EPIC OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
I grew up in not-quite-nowhere, the kind of small town with a little shop or…