My current favorite Tex Avery cartoon, “Cellbound” (1955), up on my site for a limited time. Enjoy! (The Warden is my favorite part, btw).

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This is just an old “infographic” from The Onion that I came across by accident while looking for something else. But I couldn’t get my eyes off the image, which pretty much says it all.

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Yesterday, in the trailer discussion, I mentioned an old Hitchcock/Jimmy Stewart trailer as representing the absolute worst of all pre-modern movie trailer conventions. I went back and looked, and it’s not Rope; it’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (a far worse film; this is the one Hitchcock made twice, and didn’t quite get right […]

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