If you are a fan of the tiny, little, obscure British band, The Beatles (occasionally you hear them mentioned today), or are a fan of bizarro animation or even if you just like puns then it is absolutely imperative that you view The Yellow Submarine (1968). With director Charles Dunning’s team’s incredibly lucid and inventive animation [...]
From Yuriy Norshteyn to the Brothers Quay, from Kenneth Anger to Maya Deren, some filmmakers excel at the short subject movie. The short film is a tricky beast and not everyone can be so succinct. The filmmakers I have just mentioned, however, go beyond being mere short subject film directors for they are far more [...]
What happens when med students LARP on the weekend? What happens when you surgically inject extreme rage directly into a baboon’s brain? What happens when Roddy McDowell needs a paycheck? All these questions and not much more will be answered in Shakma (1990) directed by Tom Logan and Hugh Parks. Since there’s really not much [...]
Everybody loves James Stewart. It’s a fact. Look it up. Whether you grew up watching It’s A Wonderful Life (1946), cheered the naive underdog in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), puzzled along with him in Rear Window (1954) and Vertigo (1958), chuckled away in The Philadelphia Story (1940) or seen Mr. Stewart in any [...]
Perhaps there is nothing remotely binding between the holiday in which we partake of turkey and welcome family fellowship with the 1934 Laurel & Hardy musical March of the Wooden Soldiers (a.k.a. Babes in Toyland). All I know is that at my house growing up, it wasn’t Thanksgiving without this odd comedy (it used to be [...]
A friend had randomly sent me a link to some wild scenes from a crazy Kollywood movie (Indian film in Tamil rather than Hindi which would be Bollywood). Instantly smitten with the footage, we sought out the complete movie almost immediately and watched it in all of its absurd sci-fi 3-hour long glory. This was [...]
