A Tribute to Don Bluth: The Animation Auteur Who Commanded Disney to Become Better
The Dark Age of American Animation For close to a century now, Disney has been synonymous (and indeed, treated as all but interchangeable) with American animation at large. If you go back and watch a Disney animated feature from the 1940s or ‘50s, you’ll notice just...
Movie Musicals That Defined Cinema: “The Wizard of Oz,” “Mamma Mia!” & More
“It’s the basic rule of musicals: characters sing when their emotions become so intense they can’t do anything else.” That quote from Grammy, Emmy and Tony award-winning composer Tom Kitt perfectly sums up the experience of watching a movie musical. A genre arguably...
Frank Sinatra’s Top Performances Mesmerize With Timeless Charm and Legendary Artistry
A true entertainer, Frank Sinatra did more than just sing throughout his career. In the early thirties, Sinatra was destined to become a movie star. Frank was a true performer. He could do anything from dry comedies to the rigid character studies of drama and crime...
Streaming Services and International Films: An Inseparable Cinematic Romance We Cherish
How Things Used to Be Assuming you’re not too young, you probably remember what life was like before the age of high-speed and high-quality video streaming; it was a dark, primitive period in human history. Of course, given my age, some of my fondest childhood...
