The Weekender The Weekender - Third Weekend of December 2021 Merry Christmas early! The Weekender will be a Surprise Box, an unpredictable newsletter, a bulletin board of things I'd like to share that I would have expanded into full, individual posts if life had afforded me the time.
Film Reviews The Inner Language of Wolfwalkers - a guest post by Micah Rickard Special guest reviewer Micah Rickard offers some reflections on a very tricky matter that Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers handles particularly well.
Podcast Wolfwalkers and the Rise of Cartoon Saloon — a conversation with Dr. Lindsay Marshall Here is a new episode of the Looking Closer podcast, featuring my first impressions of Wolfwalkers, and then my conversation about it with Dr. Lindsay Marshall.
On Movies & Media If you loved The Secret of Kells For the grand finale of my film-focused research writing course at Seattle Pacific University, I treated my finals-weary students to a screening and discussion of The Secret of Kells. I didn't even realize until I was loading up the movie that, lo and behold... it was St. Patrick&
