Waringing - SPOILERS all over the place. This is written from the assumption that everyone who reads it will have seen the film

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There can be no doubt that FANTASIA is one of the most beautiful movies ever done. At the same time, one visual image in the central "Sorcerer's Apprentice" episode struck me intensely. The movie was produced in 1940, when the world war - begun in 1935 in Africa, in 1937 in East Asia, in in 1939 in Europe - was lapping dangerously at the shores of ( Read more... )

For a considerable part of my life, I worked - unpaid - as a reviewer and critic, especially but not exclusively of comics. Amazon, too, bears the scars of my activities in the field. ( Read more... )

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I think I have seen a good part of all the animation and live action superhero films and TV series ever made, from the beautiful old Superman cartoons of forties to some Smallville and all of Buffy. And with due respect to all the others, I do not think that anyone will ever do anything better than Tim Burton's first Batman movie. Already by the ( Read more... )

Among my favourites in my movie collection( Read more... )

British and other TV networks have a pleasant habit of broadcasting old and famous movies on early Sunday afternoon slots. Today ITV scheduled the legendary Western Red River, which, as it happens, I had never seen ( Read more... )