Shakespearean cinema, like many of the other subjects I’ve approached in my annual film retrospectives, is something in which I’ve long wanted to become more fluent. There are boundless avenues […]
What’s the opposite of a long take? The first four top 25 lists I put together for this blog were matching pairs: scariest scenes and funniest scenes, endings and beginnings. […]
“How does he do it?” asked no one. According to my painstaking records, I’ve maintained roughly the same pace in watching movies that were new to me during the last […]
The first thing that must be acknowledged is that these figures are not mere mortals, and would in fact inspire a mix of awe and terror if they were encountered […]
Like Christmas morning, the announcement of a given year’s Oscar nominees is all about anticipation. The ultimate results will be uneven at best, but allowing oneself hope for a pleasant […]
Few pop culture figures have had as many ups and downs in popular esteem as Batman, a character who, in one guise or another, can always capture people’s imaginations but […]
They’re a couple of also-rans in the icon department, still going strong after eighty years but never getting fully out of the shadows of their studios’ mascots. For one of […]
During his first stint with Disney, John Lasseter pitched an adaptation of the Thomas M. Disch children’s story The Brave Little Toaster. Computer technology was a wide-open frontier in the early […]
Something that’s easy to take for granted if you grow up with Disney’s animated version of The Jungle Book is the incredible biodiversity that’s depicted. The central region of India that […]
Even before I really knew much about movies, I had a strange pride in the ones that came out in my birth year. There was a sense of ownership over […]
Geppetto's Clocks 