Something Old, Nothing New

It's time for another who-animated-who analysis of a great Warner Brothers cartoon, Robert McKimson's "Hillbilly Hare." ...

Not much to say today, so I'll just post a song lyric about having nothing to say. This is from the operetta His Excellency , written b...

Bloodlust on! Two Hollywood superstars, tired of people thinking they're related just because they use the same last name, decide to f...

This is like my fifteenth post about one line from one movie, but the death of Betty Friedan once again got me thinking of my least-favouri...

This isn't related to any particular event, but I just felt like rounding up some links pertaining to some of best kids' comics of a...

I'm sure other people are linking to it, but this John Rogers post , smacking down a bizarre politicized response to the Academy Award n...

DVD Beaver has some screenshots from Criterion's upcoming release of Jean Renoir's La Bête Humaine. . Based on Emile Zola's nov...

Some more good classic Broadway lyrics: from the score of Wish You Were Here (1952) by the ever-underrated Harold Rome ( Pins and Needles, ...

The Boston Globe reviews a book by critic David Kipen The Schreiber Theory , which argues that the auteur theory is all wet and that we sh...

So the Oscar nominees are out . Somewhat noteworthy is the fact that the five nominees for Best Picture are the same as the five nominees fo...

The Digital Bits reports that Warner Home Video, the current leader in old movies on DVD (in part because they own the catalogues of at lea...

The San Diego Union-Tribune has an article on Mark Lisanti, creator of the Defamer site.

Good evening. Tonight's Grudge Match I'd like to see is: ALFRED HITCHCOCK, a successful film director who became a public figure by...

Off-topic, but did you realize that from a certain point of view, the entire history of American presidential elections from 1980 to the pre...

For those of you looking for something a little different for the Mozart Year, there's always this interview with Glenn Gould , where he...

I wanted to write something about Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country -- the perfect blend of old-fashioned Western and revisionist W...

The Digital Bits confirms that Warner Brothers is finally going to have Richard Donner put together his own cut of Superman II . More abou...

Well, it's Mozart's 250th birthday, which apparently is more significant than his 249th birthday for some reason. This round of ...

Animator Jenny Lerew posts something I never thought I'd see: John Kricfalusi sketches for Tiny Toon Adventures. See here and here ....

Fayard Nicholas has died at the age of 91. Fayard and his younger brother Harold were The Nicholas Brothers , the most amazing tap-dancing...