Something to Lift Your Spirits: Casper’s Halloween Special

By Michael LyonsYou just can’t watch “It’s the The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!” One more time...but what other Halloween TV Specials are out there?  “Garfield’s Halloween Adventure?”  Seen it!  How do you satisfy the need you may have for marginally animated Halloween fare?  Consider spending half...

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With a Hip, Hip and a Clippidity Clop: The 70th Anniversary Of “The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad!”

By Michael LyonsIn the pantheon of iconic scenes from Disney classics like “Pinocchio,” “Cinderella,” “The Little Mermaid” and “The Lion King” one must reserve space for the kinetically animated sequence in which The Headless Horseman pursues Ichabod Crane.The sequence has also become synonymous with this Halloween time...

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Drop Dead Fred: The 35th Anniversary of “A Nightmare on Elm Street”

By Michael LyonsNightmares are an unsettling and ambiguous part of our nightly sleep patterns that have been examined for centuries.  As such a disturbing part of a good night’s sleep, many times forgotten by morning, they’re an aspect of our life that filmmakers have had challenges capturing on screen...until Wes...

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