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The Conversation: Drew Morton and Landon Palmer Discuss ‘World of Tomorrow’

The Conversation is a feature at PopOptiq bringing together Drew Morton and Landon Palmer in a passionate debate about cinema new and old. For their fourteenth piece, they discuss Don Hertzfeldt’s Oscar-nominated animated short, World of Tomorrow (2015). Drew’s Take Don Hertzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow was my favorite film of 2015, followed closely by two other science fiction masterpieces: George …

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It’s Culture, Bugs: 10 Great Animated Musical Shorts

The connection between music and animation is an incredibly close one. In 1940, Walt Disney pioneered with his first animated full-length feature, a musical telling of Snow White and even before, cartoons were common in movie theaters, rounding out the double bills along with newsreels and comedy shorts. For decades, audiences watched shorts this way …

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25 Days of Christmas: ‘The Snowman’ is full of beautiful, bittersweet wonder

  Throughout the month of December, TV Editor Kate Kulzick and Film Editor Ricky D will review classic Christmas adaptions, posting a total of 13 each, one a day, until the 25th of December. The catch: They will swap roles as Rick takes on reviews of television Christmas specials and Kate takes on Christmas movies. …

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