Christmas, Inc.

The gym where I workout at has six or seven flat-screen TV’s set strategically from one end to the other.  A few days prior to the Thanksgiving holiday I noticed, when I was on my way to get some water, a commercial for Rankin/Bass’ “Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer” on one of the monitors. Now, Rankin/Bass […]

‘ParaNorman’ Review

“”ParaNorman,” particularly its story, is not as innovative as its animation, though it often uses established tropes in an interesting fashion.” Chris Butler and Sam Fell‘s “ParaNorman” is an interesting film primarily for two reasons:  The first is that it’s made in stop-motion, a painstaking method of animation that involves figures built upon a metal […]