Criterion Channel is running a series of arthouse animation for adults. I’m checking out some of it. I’m by no means an expert on animation, but some of this is pretty interesting. Bellado
Doctor Utopia is in the 1948 house ready to destroy you with all his isms, but Thank God Common Sense America is there to protect us from this dastardly foreigner and his ideas!
This little 3 minute cartoon from 1916 is a harsh look at poverty in the early twentieth century, focusing on a guy so hungry that he tries to get in an accident so he can cash in on his insurance pla
We’ve talked about the classic early lunatic 1906 film Dream of a Rarebit Fiend earlier in this series. Well, the basis for this was the cartoonist Windsor McCay who started a strip on people ea
I subscribed to Filmstruck awhile ago and have seen some pretty interesting films on it. But perhaps none as fascinating as Fantastic Planet, from 1973. A Czech animated film, except that the director
The story about Trump not having anywhere to stay at the G-20 meeting is hilarious to me because given what an unreconstructed racist our dear leader is, it is surprisingly close to the plot of the 19
On Monday of this week, new allegations about the egregious human rights abuses of the Syrian government’s secret prison in Sadnaya surfaced: that a crematorium had been built to permanently dis
October is over. That means the merciful end of pumpkin beer season, thank higher powers that may or may not exist. It also means the end of daylight savings, which is bad but I’ll take the deal