Steven Spielberg was inspired by Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation. Ben Affleck was provoked by a Middle Eastern hostage tale. Adam Pesapane wanted to transform a hand grenade into an ...

How does one follow up an Oscar nomination for best animated short? Stop motion director PES, who was nominated this year for Fresh Guacamole, wants to make another short, but instead of traditional ...

Maybe you, like Adam Pesapane, have glanced at a mound of avocados in the supermarket and mistook them, for a moment, for a stockpile of grenades. Perhaps as a child, you pretended Pixie Stix were ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. “I haven’t figured out exactly where this fascination comes from, but it’s sort of embedded in my sense of humor ...

Every year, it gets more and more difficult to draw a clear boundary between animated and live-action films. The official terminology used by the Academy Awards feels particularly vague and ...

All this month we’ll be reviewing the Oscar nominees for the best animated, live-action, and documentary short films, alternating daily between categories. Check back tomorrow for the next installment ...