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Elaine Chung The opening minutes of a movie can be a make-it-or-break-it proposition. They’re like the first 50 pages of a novel. If the author hasn’t hooked you and reeled you in by then, well it’s time to move on to the next book on your nightstand. Of course, no one’s going to get up and walk out of a movie after ten minutes—not when they’ve already forked over fifteen bucks. But a less than great start puts a director at a disadvantage. He or she has to win you back. I keep a list of movies with perfect openings filed away in my head, from tried-and-true classics like

Red Hot Riding Hood Tuning in to the TCM film festival over the weekend I happened on to two documentaries about the cartoonist Tex Avery. I hadn’t heard his name before, but we are all familiar one way or another with some of his classic work. He had a hand in the development of characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd and others. I take it he was some kind of a genius humorist. The first of the two documentaries about Avery concluded with Red Hot Riding Hood. Turning to Wikipedia, I learn: Red Hot Riding Hood is an animated cartoon short subject, directed by Te...

Adored as it is by we fans, SCTV was never a ratings grabber, either in syndication or on NBC. (Before moving to its 90 minute slot on NBC, the show debuted in a half-hour format immediately following Saturday Night Live.) Rick Moranis joined the show in its third season, after it became apparent that castmates Tony Rosato and Robin Duke weren’t clicking. In Dave Thomas’ "SCTV: Behind the Scenes," the show’s vade mecum of abtruse insight, Moranis remarked, “I was the only guy ever to join the show from outside the little Second City world.” Moranis initially sensed resistance comi...

For Dexter’s Lab’s 25th anniversary, we spoke with creator Genndy Tartakovsky, as well as animators and writers Craig McCracken, Rob Renzetti, and Butch Hartman

/ Roger Livesey as Torquil MacNeil (left) and Wendy Hiller as Joan Webster in "I Know Where I'm Going!" (1945). Each year, cable network Turner Classic Movies puts on a film festival in a movie palace in Los Angeles. This year, the TCM Classic Film Festival, which runs from May 6 through May 9, is online. For KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz, who teaches film and television at CU Denver, it’s a chance to see some exceptional films. It never makes sense to me that animation should look like the world we actually live in. Animators can imagine life on a different plane. In the great cartoons...