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‘Steamboat Willie’ at 95 – Short Film Review

‘Steamboat Willie’ at 95 – Short Film Review

Steamboat Willie (1928)Directors: Ub Iwerks, Walt DisneyScreenwriters: Walt Disney, Ub IwerksStarring: Walt Disney, Charlotte Jamquie It all started with a rabbit. That’s right, around a year before Mickey, Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit who, despite starring in dozens of shorts, was unceremoniously ditched in favour of another anthropomorphic animal character […]

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‘The Birds’ at 60 – Review

‘The Birds’ at 60 – Review

Jessica Tandy easily acts everyone else off the screen, giving her widow steely resilience and a painful history. The characters are for the most part a bit of a let-down, only working in the broadest of strokes, and that’s after Hitch asked his screenwriter, novelist Evan Hunter, for rewrites. Everyone gets just one unique character

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