Lloyd Kaufman doesn’t just make movies—he makes Troma movies. That’s an important distinction, since no other writer/director/producer has created a body of work quite like Kaufman’s since he started Troma Entertainment...
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Q&A: Lo-fi animator Joel Trussell on breaking the weirdness barrier at Disney XD
Love it or hate it, the animated series Pickle and Peanut accomplished something no one in the industry thought possible: bringing the bizarre to Disney XD. The cable channel’s programming is mostly aimed at young...
Q&A: Tim and Eric’s suburban-hell masterpiece, ‘Tom Goes to the Mayor’
Comedy team Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim (aka, Tim and Eric) specialize in the absurdity of American culture—to its ugliest extremes. While they often portray characters of uncommon repulsiveness, they’re also...
Modes and Motors: an art deco introduction to GM’s Styling Section of 1938
“Out of the merger of art, science and industry have come new techniques that have within themselves the ability to create an entirely new pattern and setting for the life of the world.” –Modes and Motors...
Reassessing: ‘Pineapple Express’ (2008) and the rise of the Apatowian comedy
In the golden age of R-rated comedies—roughly, roughly 1975 through 1984—there was much to gladden the hearts of 14-year-old boys: National Lampoon’s Animal House, Caddyshack, Used Cars, Stripes. Now considered classics...
Will my kid survive the endless chasm of ‘Minecraft’?
This is going to be one of those first-person parental posts about children and video games. Only it’s not going to include the usual self-reassuring conclusion about my parenting skills—I have no idea if I’ve made the...
