ENORMOUS ADVANCE ON PINK SHEETS Fascination juggles perplexity in Monster House. Animation is top-notch, and the advances are plain even to a layman; a character like Chowder is sui generis and far more detailed than necessary, loveable even; the voicings are mostly bull's-eye etc. But the plot is … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2006
WAITING FOR GENE-GENE…
NOSTALGIC FOR NIXON, PART I
Everybody underrate comics, and satirists have an even arder time of it. Lewis Black's recent HBO special made the leap -- long stretches of his routine traded laughs for righteous, hard-earned bile. Herry Shearer has a Masters in Political Science from Harvard, you can look it up, but you'd never … [Read more...]