Something Old, Nothing New

I'm sure this has been featured elsewhere, but it's the first time I saw it: the transformation scene from Pinocchio with only the ...

Those who read this blog know I'm a fan of Hugh Wilson, who is sort of a more humanistic version of the man who brought him into MTM, Ja...

Starcrash (or Star Crash , or Stella Star , or whatever you want to call it) on DVD. On Blu-Ray, yet (part of Shout! Factory's deal to...

Warning; the following post is for those who, like me, watched the "Yes, we have no bananas" scene in One, Two, Three and wondere...

You may have already seen William Martell's much-discussed post on how the intriguing script "Nottingham" became the unintrigu...

While still on the subject of past vs. present, I thought I would transcribe the opening of maybe the definitive essay by my favorite living...

Earlier today I was discussing the fact that on most areas of the internet, movie history is basically about 25 years long. This also applie...

The invaluable Doug Gray, who has pretty much my favorite comics blog), has Carl Barks's venture into the opposition camp, the Porky Pig...

If you don't mind my doing another music-related post, I wanted to follow up something I wrote in an earlier post, which is that Carmen,...

I've recently been going over some old Marvel/Timely/Atlas Patsy Walker comics by Al Hartley , and one thing that surprised me is how s...

After writing an earlier post about the old-school approach to Gilbert and Sullivan -- and how at this point it often comes off better than ...

I mentioned on Twitter that I hoped Kick-Ass (which I have not seen) would be a success because it might convince Warner Brothers to bring ...

Inspired by my Great Race reference in an earlier post, I return to a question that has haunted all of humankind ever since the '60s: w...

Sorry I've had so little to say here recently. I do want to note that according to this post at BoingBoing , the cartoonists who contrib...

I've been re-watching some Blake Edwards movies lately, with my usual mixture of admiration and frustration: he really was a brilliantly...

Vince Keenan has some thoughts after seeing Bigger Than Life : I don’t have many rules when it comes to movies, but here’s one: when every h...

While I should post here more often, here are a couple of longer posts from other blogs that could have been done here. (And isn't that...

I couldn't figure out how to do this as a full-length post, so this will be more of a "here's this clip, go watch it" type...

A delay of several months for the single-disc Bugs and Daffy cartoon collections. And as we've noted before, the collections -- with no...

(Cross-posted from the TV Guidance blog) I've talked a few times about the differences between real laughter and canned laughter in te...