Western style animation
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! This week, we’re presenting a film noir … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: D.O.A. (& “The Dover Boys at Pimento University, or, The Rivals of Roquefort Hall”)
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! This week is a special one … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Safety Last! (& “Felix in Hollywood”)
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! This Saturday, in honor of the Holiday … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: It’s a Wonderful Life (& “Spies”)
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! This Saturday, we’re presenting the screwball comedy … Continue reading Public Domain Theater Presents: His Girl Friday (& “Superman”)
Raph’s the leader of the group, Leonardo is the party dude? Continue reading Turtles Rise in First Trailer for Ninja Turtles Reboot
It’s Frosty the Snowman meets 1984! No, seriously, this exists. Continue reading Good God, The Legend of Frosty the Snowman is Weird
“Dying is one of my least favorite things to do” Short films, even when they breakthrough to viral status, never achieve the kind of attention that feature length films do. With the exception of Pixar and the rare other example, … Continue reading Movie Reviews: World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts (2017)
One of the nicest things about Christmas is that it’s an ideal time to tell your friends to seek out holiday specials which you find rewarding that they may have never heard of before. Now, there’d be no point in … Continue reading A Very Merry Cricket is a Yuletide Chuck Jones Classic
By now, there have been more adaptations of A Christmas Carol than anyone can count. In addition to the straightforward takes on the story, there have been so many parodies of the classic holiday tale that taking any form of an inventory on them would be virtually impossible (though I’m sure many have tried). So when I heard that Barbie of all characters would be taking on the role of Scrooge, my curiosity was tempted. How could the fashion doll with a million careers star in any re-telling of the Dickens story? How stupid would it be? Sensing the makings … Continue reading But Seriously, Barbie in A Christmas Carol is Pretty Good
As some of us gather round to watch The He-Man & She-Ra Christmas Special (something which should be a tradition for all of you if it isn’t already), we’ve been given an early Christmas present with the news that our favorite Princess of Power … Continue reading She-Ra is Coming Back, and That’s Pretty Sweet
2017 has been a pretty bleak year in many ways, but one of the brighter spots of it has been Disney XD’s much-hyped DuckTales reboot, which has gotten almost universal acclaim. With plenty of sharp humor and a bold animation … Continue reading The New DuckTales Might Have One of the Best Opening Title Sequences Ever for a Cartoon
There’s a reason you’ve probably never seen Cricket on the Hearth. At the very least, you’ve almost certainly never seen it on television. Airing only once as an episode of The Danny Thomas Show in 1967, the Rankin/Bass special fell into obscurity afterwards, … Continue reading Cricket on the Hearth is a Bad Cartoon from Rankin/Bass’s Golden Age
Few holiday specials are odder ducks than Frosty Returns in terms of how they are consumed by the general public. No one seems to particularly “like it,” yet its been airing on CBS every year for more than two decades alongside its far more beloved Rankin/Bass cartoon counterpart Frosty the Snowman. Part of the reason for this, of course, is that having a full 60 minutes of programming is far more convenient for a network to schedule than a half-hour of it. Even so, people must be watching Frosty Returns annually at this point, as the network wouldn’t keep showing it if everyone was shutting … Continue reading Why the Heck Do We Watch Frosty Returns Every Year?
So, stop me if you’ve heard this one, but Treasure Planet wasn’t exactly a box office hit when it opened on this day 15 years ago. There may be no other Disney animated movie–with the possible exception of The Black Cauldron–that has … Continue reading Treasure Planet’s Box Office Failure Only Made its Fandom Grow Stronger
Howdy, Avocadoans! Welcome to the premiere edition of this (probably) weekly discussion of western animation! (Nothing against anime, but there are like 50,000 other places to talk about it, so let’s limit this to American/European cartoons.) Potential topics to discuss: … Continue reading The New Golden Age of TV Animation
When Anastasia opened on this day twenty years ago, it made headlines for two reasons. The first–and perhaps more tired to read about at the time–was that it was taking a prominent figure from history and making her the subject of … Continue reading Non-Disney Animated Features Were Never the Same After Anastasia
It’s the story of a strange scientist who lives inside a machine that can take him to any time or place. The only problem is, he’s really bad at making it go where it is supposed. Accompanying him are three … Continue reading Flying House: Almost as weird as the actual Bible
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