The Goods: Film ReviewsLike most mid-era Peanuts specials, this one is not bad so much as inessential. The story follows Snoopy chasing down a sexy poodle and joining the circus. There’s more of a dark tone here than some other Peanuts specials, but not to an especially interesting effect.
It’s trash.
Any claim at a “first” in cinema history is going to be filled with asterisks and provisos.
It has been ten years since Lena Dunham announced “I think I may be the voice of my generation… or at least a voice of a generation”
It is pretty much impossible to talk about Honor Society without talking about how it resolves
Fall is an example of a movie doing one central thing very well such that not much else about the movie matters so long as the movie is focused on that one thing.
The Adventures of Prince Achmed is the oldest surviving animated feature film and the third one ever made.
As far as I am concerned, there can never be enough offbeat coming-of-age quasi-comedies.
I held out hope after the bad reviews.
Early trick film in the “lightning sketch animation” subgenre/technique that was a precursor for real animation just a couple years down the road.