There’s always been a slightly uncomfortable relationship between the voyeuristic viewer and the pandering filmmaker, whether it’s highbrow cinema, big-budget television, crass pornography or the nightly TV news. During the Vietnam War, the great debate was whether to show the bodies of soldiers killed in the conflict on television, but in our collective zeal for that which is salacious we’ve made that question quaint and dated: now the modern TV news watchword is “if it bleeds, it…Read More
Review: Mr. Peabody & Sherman
I always enjoyed the edgy humor of the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show, even though much of its cold war-inspired humor was way over my head. Like many of its contemporary animated shows, Rocky & Bullwinkle had other characters that would star in their own adventures, usually neat, self-container 5-10 minute stories, and most engaging among those were the peculiar time-traveling journeys of über-smart dog Mr. Peabody and his adopted human son Sherman. Yes, “dog adopts…Read More