On the night of December 21, 1937, the motion picture destined to be one of the most important and influential of all time premiered at Hollywood’s Carthay Circle Theatre. Every major star and executive in Tinseltown was in attendance.
The first cel-animated feature film ever made, it was the project that would make or break Walt Disney Productions.
To say that getting the film made was a laborious endeavor would be a massive understatement. Industry insiders had dubbed it “Disney’s…
Saturday, October 7th, 2023 is a date which will live in infamy.
In the wake of the Simchat Torah massacre, a tidal wave of vicious antisemitism broke across the United States. In universities and colleges, and even grade schools, Jewish students, staff, and faculty were openly discriminated against by their peers. Synagogues were vandalized or torched. Pro-Israel activists were brutalized and murdered. Not only was much of the globe not in mourning after Hamas’ invasion of Israel; there was jubilation.…
The only ever Star Wars film to make the prequels look GOOD. And that's saying something.
In conclusion: Fuck Life Day.
That is all.
The pilot entry of the Fleischer/Famous Studios Superman series is the first cartoon short I've ever reviewed.
Paramount's cartoon adaptation of Superman remains among my favorite film incarnations of the comic strip, second only to the 1978 feature film itself.
It is easily one of the most lavish, technically sophisticated, and expensive cartoon shorts of its time; the first entry in this series of shorts cost $50,000 to produce. Superman captures the Fleischer Studios at the height of its creative…
