Alistair Sim News Today

From its earliest honorees to the present, the Academy Award for Best Animated Short doubles as a kind of history of the ever-changing medium. We ranked them all — from animation’s golden age to the arrival of Pixar and beyond.

An instant candidate for a Razzie Award, Sony's Marvel-adjacent “Madame Web” arrives out of the Spider-Verse, and it is a stinker.

This mystery comedy from 1986 stars Lucy Sheen, and has some pointed comments on the racism Chinese communities faced in the UK

Isaiah 11:6 (KJV) “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling…

In today’s letters to the editor: the best Christmas movies; Woody the talking Christmas tree; listen with equanimity; to be Canadian

Depending on one’s age, there’s a wide variety of Scrooge icons ranging from Reginald Owen in 1938 (with at least nine actors performing in previously filmed versions) to Alistair Sim,

What should you watch this December? We have you covered.

The RiverRun International Film Festival and Marketplace Cinemas will celebrate the second annual “Holiday Can Film Festival” with a screening of the award-winning yuletide perennial The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

OUR READERS have been getting in touch with us to tell us what their favourite Christmas film is as the festive period gets underway.

A Christchurch primary school is trying to make the start of the school week more like a party than a chore, in an attempt to boost school attendance.