National treasure chest
Callumlangham@gmail.com In 1991, the NFB’s internationally renowned cartoon studio turned 50. The American animation aggregator Terry...
March 2026
Wall-to-wall cop comedy
Between careers as an NFL running back and an accused murderer, O.J. Simpson spent some...
Pitching a home-run hit
An example of a star who peaked early, the 10-year-old Tatum O’Neal was the youngest...
Questing for consistency
Excoriated for his politically incorrect 1975 cartoon feature Coonskin, adult animation pioneer Ralph Bakshi refocused his...
Being Alice no easy role
On this day in 1864 (Nov. 26), Charles Dodgson, a 32-year-old Oxford mathematician, delivered an...
Fossil fuel farce fails
For nearly 40 years, he held to the old-fashioned idea that movies were more than...
Overcoming adversity
Born on this day (February 6) in 1930, Allan Winton King brought a documentarist’s eye...
All singing, all dancing
Noting the Contact Me button at the bottom of this page, C.B. wrote to comment on Reeling Back and...
Revenge a result of rage
As 2018’s Black History Month comes to an end today (February 28), the mid-month release...
Sex and the single critic
In addition to reviewing films, Roger Ebert took the occasional screenwriting assignment. Born on this...