Year of the Month: HERE COMES THE SUN
You’ll get no argument saying Nina Simone’s a great artist. But like so many of…
Year of the Month: THE BABY HUEY STORY — THE LIVING LEGEND
1971 was an extraordinary year in music history, as the creative explosion of the late…
Disney in Transition: THE LITTLE MERMAID
In 1937, Disney graduated from shorts to features with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.…
Year of the Month: SHUTTER ISLAND
Spoilers ahead Shutter Island seems on the face of it like a textbook minor work…
POPEYE, Part Two: A Study in Segar-ian Storytelling
Popeye begins 1935 in Black Valley, investigating a gang of claimjumpers fed on tainted cactus…
POPEYE, Part One: A Study in Segar-ian Style
90-odd years after he first tromped onto the stage of Thimble Theatre, Popeye’s in a…
Year of the Month: FLASH GORDON
Nowadays, newspaper comics are the lowest form of life — page after page of crotchety…
Year of the Month: MAD LOVE
Mad Love opens in the Theatre de Horrors, a Grand Guignol knockoff packed full of…
Year of the Month: RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY: A MUSICAL ADVENTURE
The ‘70s and ‘80s are often called a “dark age” for animation. That’s true in…
Year of the Month: ERASERHEAD and the Ways Movies Change
Listen: Ron Burgundy has come unstuck in time. It’s autumn, 2012. I’m lying on a…