Year of the Month: FLASH GORDON
Nowadays, newspaper comics are the lowest form of life — page after page of crotchety…
Year of the Month: MAD LOVE
Mad Love opens in the Theatre de Horrors, a Grand Guignol knockoff packed full of…
Year of the Month: RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY: A MUSICAL ADVENTURE
The ‘70s and ‘80s are often called a “dark age” for animation. That’s true in…
Year of the Month: ERASERHEAD and the Ways Movies Change
Listen: Ron Burgundy has come unstuck in time. It’s autumn, 2012. I’m lying on a…
Life Before STAR WARS: The Winners
As far as action stars go, though, the ‘70s didn’t have a bigger one than…
Life Before STAR WARS: Trendchasers
King Kong was far from the last attempt to jump on the Jaws bandwagon. Columbia…
Life Before STAR WARS: Aliens, Apes, and Animated Weirdoes
Before Star Wars proved they could be big business, sci-fi and fantasy were the province…
Life Before STAR WARS, Part One: Long Ago and Far Away
Star Wars has become the tree that’s impossible to see for the forest. It’s ceased…
Year of the Month: EUROPA ’51
Europa ‘51 is the best argument for creative marriages. It’s one of six films the…
Year of the Month: Good Artists, Gilded Men, and Golden Helmets (Part 2 of 2)
I read Carl Barks’ work voraciously ever since I learned of the existence of the…