Bad Ideas

Weird Al Switches to the Dark Side

As part of Cartoon Network’s efforts to reinvent themselves as a cheap knockoff of The Disney Channel, they’ve hired “Weird Al” Yankovic …

Feature Film

Fear(s) of the Dark

Back in February 2006, I wrote about an intriguing French animated feature Peur(s) du Noir (Fears of the Dark), which is a …

Old Brew

FIRST REVIEWS OF A SCANNER DARKLY

From the Cannes Film Festival: The Hollywood Reporter HATES IT and Time Out calls it “even less generally accessible than Waking Life.” …

Old Brew

WIRED ON SCANNER DARKLY

Good article on the CG rotoscope technique used in WAKING LIFE and challenges in making the forthcoming A SCANNER DARKLY in the latest …

Old Brew

The Dark Side of Dr. Seuss

The SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE has an interesting piece on a touring film program called “The Dark Side of Dr. Seuss.” The program, curated …

Old Brew

Popeye’s Darkest Hour

I can’t imagine how awful Mainframe’s CG Popeye looks in motion, but these stills are disgusting enough. Frank Panucci, who posted the …

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