The Curious Absence of Humor in Primetime Animation
Are The Simpsons and Family Guy creatively bankrupt? Is the Pope Catholic? The New York Sun’s David Blum wrote a sharp commentary about …
Are The Simpsons and Family Guy creatively bankrupt? Is the Pope Catholic? The New York Sun’s David Blum wrote a sharp commentary about …
Russell Schroeder has written and self-published an eye-opening (and ear-opening) book on the unused music for Disney films (both …
If Disney’s early-60s paper cutout short A Symposium on Popular Songs had included black people, they might have looked something like …
Calling all Krusty Krab fans. Amoeba Music in Hollywood will host a rare in-store performance by SpongeBob & The Hi-Seas, a rock band …
Brew readers with a keen eye and a vast knowledge of Disney TV and movies, here’s a question for you. These cels (above) were recently …
Long before Paramount Pictures was affiliated with Nickelodeon Movies… a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away… they had an …
For most artists, paper is an expendable material that one creates their art on, but Megan Brain’s paper sculptures show that the paper …
Okay, I admit it. I love Famous Studios cartoons. Perhaps at some point I’ll go on at length about why I like them so much (partially …
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER reports that brothers Paul and Ga”tan Brizzi, most famous for directing the “Firebird Suite” in FANTASIA 2000, …
If you are in Hollywood tonight – I highly recommend you spend an evening with Janet Klein And Her Parlor Boys. I’ll be there with my …
I have no idea if this new CD by animation historian Rick Goldschmidt is any good – but any excuse to post some new artwork by animation …
QUEER DUCK was one of the funniest internet cartoons in those golden years before the dot.com boom went bust. Now Queer Duck: The Movie …
We’ve just received word that animator and director Myron Waldman died Saturday morning, Feb. 4, at the age of 97 at Long Island …
Okay, it’s no Oscar nominee, the character designs suck and the animation (despite a few nice shots) is no where near Pixar’s polished …
The new hand-drawn animation music video for the band They Might Be Giants is well worth checking out. “Bastard Wants to Hit Me” was …
As usual on the first Thursday of every month, I’ll be showing several 16mm films at the Steve Allen Theatre (at 4773 Hollywood Blvd. in …
As usual on the first Thursday of every month, I’ll be showing several 16mm films at the Steve Allen Theatre (at 4773 Hollywood Blvd. in …
Disney has announced the contents for the fifth wave of their Treasures dvd sets. Of particular interest is the contents of DISNEY …
I couldn’t let this pass by without making some mention of it: here’s a belated happy birthday to legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, …
If you are in Hollywood tonight and are looking for things to do – I highly recommend you spend an evening with Janet Klein And Her …