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Animation

A Whole “Blu” World: Aladdin Diamond Edition

Oct 28, 2015 Brandie Ashe 0

A rebellious princess falls in love with an orphaned petty thief on the streets of an Arabian kingdom. She is fifteen, going on sixteen, and at the insistence of her father–and the laws of the […]

Cartoon Roots
Animation

From the Beginning: Cartoon Roots (2014)

May 16, 2015 Brandie Ashe 1

J. Stuart Blackton. J.R. Bray. Raoul Barré. The Fleischer brothers. Otto Messmer. Paul Terry. These names may not be all that recognizable today, but even the most casual observer of popular culture can see the […]

Movies

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: OUT OF THE PAST on Blu-Ray

Sep 4, 2014 Drew Morton 0

By DREW MORTON Five years ago, I wrote a retrospective on film noir for Pajiba by honing down my favorite film genre (or movement or mode – depending on who you’re talking to) to the Top Five […]

Movies

The Process of Play: THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO and THUNDERBIRD 6

Jun 19, 2014 Drew Morton 0

By Drew Morton It is the summer of 1996.  I’m twelve years old and I’m standing in our driveway with my brother, my cousins, and a boxy VHS camcorder mounted on a tripod.  We’ve just […]

Movies

The Very Necessary “EVIL”

Apr 25, 2014 Drew Morton 1

By Drew Morton In the construction of my noir canon, I set myself two ground rules at the start: I would cover only the classical period from 1941 to 1958 and I would limit the […]

Movies

Double Indemnity: 70th Anniversary Blu-Ray Review

Apr 23, 2014 Drew Morton 1

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat makes Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity the greatest film noir? First, and this is veering away from the text of the film itself for just a moment, Double Indemnity is significant for the very reason that it was amongst […]

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