W. David Lichty
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The Fleischers scored the rights to the Superman character just a few years after he was introduced in comics. In these he still leaps rather than flies, and it takes some effort for him to stop a train.
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The Fleischers scored the rights to the Superman character just a few years after he was introduced in comics. In these he still leaps rather than flies, and it takes some effort for him to stop a train.
The Disney company is responsible for many of the major advances in animation, especially in the period between 1928 and 1939, but the Fleischers perfected rotoscoping to give us the most human like movement.
November 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The Disney company is responsible for many of the major advances in animation, especially in the period between 1928 and 1939, but the Fleischers perfected rotoscoping to give us the most human like movement.
Some of the best color film noir lighting ever committed to film is in these cartoons, and I wish people making color film noir live action movies would take their cues from these.
November 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Some of the best color film noir lighting ever committed to film is in these cartoons, and I wish people making color film noir live action movies would take their cues from these.
I think they go well as a set. #1 brings the team together, 2 gives the adventure, 3 some real grief and then this becomes the well-earned Back To Basics one.
Also, I don't think John Shuck has ever been better, and I'm not even kidding. As few lines as he has, this is a *great* character.
Also, I don't think John Shuck has ever been better, and I'm not even kidding. As few lines as he has, this is a *great* character.
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I think they go well as a set. #1 brings the team together, 2 gives the adventure, 3 some real grief and then this becomes the well-earned Back To Basics one.
Also, I don't think John Shuck has ever been better, and I'm not even kidding. As few lines as he has, this is a *great* character.
Also, I don't think John Shuck has ever been better, and I'm not even kidding. As few lines as he has, this is a *great* character.
It's probably what people wanted in 1979 when they got the masterful The Motion Picture instead, with the characters in full team/family mode, and it was expected to be the only Star Trek movie we’d ever see.
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It's probably what people wanted in 1979 when they got the masterful The Motion Picture instead, with the characters in full team/family mode, and it was expected to be the only Star Trek movie we’d ever see.
There's Martha Plympton in one of her two great pictures made with her friend River Phoenix, the other being Running on Empty.
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
There's Martha Plympton in one of her two great pictures made with her friend River Phoenix, the other being Running on Empty.
This had two of those Straight To Video sequels with which Disney dubiously dallianced in the 90's. The first was terrible. The second was actually pretty great. If it comes out without the albatross that is Return of Jafar tied around its neck, Aladdin & the King of Thieves is well worth a look.
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This had two of those Straight To Video sequels with which Disney dubiously dallianced in the 90's. The first was terrible. The second was actually pretty great. If it comes out without the albatross that is Return of Jafar tied around its neck, Aladdin & the King of Thieves is well worth a look.
November 25, 1998 - Babe: Pig in the City, a film buried under two other kids' pictures, A Bug's Life and something about carpet mice. As good as Bug's Life was, this was the standout. (Keeping in mind that A Bug's Life is just a watered down version of the greater Seven Samurai).
November 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
November 25, 1998 - Babe: Pig in the City, a film buried under two other kids' pictures, A Bug's Life and something about carpet mice. As good as Bug's Life was, this was the standout. (Keeping in mind that A Bug's Life is just a watered down version of the greater Seven Samurai).
Stars Margaret Sullavan (The Shop Around the Corner), Ann Sothern (Letter to Three Wives), Joan Blondell (Gold Diggers of 1933, Grease), written by Paul Osborn (the play On Borrowed Time, which became a film I really enjoy), Directed by Richard Thorpe, one of four directors of How the West Was Won.
November 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Stars Margaret Sullavan (The Shop Around the Corner), Ann Sothern (Letter to Three Wives), Joan Blondell (Gold Diggers of 1933, Grease), written by Paul Osborn (the play On Borrowed Time, which became a film I really enjoy), Directed by Richard Thorpe, one of four directors of How the West Was Won.
Also, yes, it is proper to call The Monster Frankenstein. As Henry Frankenstein is effectively his 'father', his full name would be T. Monster Frankenstein, and if you can call his pop out by last name only, you can do the same for him.
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Also, yes, it is proper to call The Monster Frankenstein. As Henry Frankenstein is effectively his 'father', his full name would be T. Monster Frankenstein, and if you can call his pop out by last name only, you can do the same for him.
This set the visual tone for horror movies more than Dracula earlier in 1931, very much due to director James Whale. Take a look at this scene from a musical. The camera opens with a Star-Making shot, and his inserts of slave-ish labor look like they belong in a horror movie, as they should.
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This set the visual tone for horror movies more than Dracula earlier in 1931, very much due to director James Whale. Take a look at this scene from a musical. The camera opens with a Star-Making shot, and his inserts of slave-ish labor look like they belong in a horror movie, as they should.