Author: Christopher Bingham
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Local Hero & Northern Exposure
This video is a passion topic of mine, but it’s full of valuable lessons for anyone who wants to tell stories for a living. Local Hero (1983) is a masterful 80s feature directed by Bill Forsyth. It’s full of rich characters and quiet but poignant moments. I learned recently that it inspired my favourite ever…
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Yuki’s Revenge
I can’t be the only one who watched Yuki’s Revenge (in Fortnite) and wished Quentin Tarantino would direct an original, feature-length animated movie… In this short one-off video essay we’re looking at Yuki’s Revenge, how it was made, WHY it was made, and what it could mean for the future…
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Bend It Like Beckham
In this short video I discuss the 2002 sports comedy drama Bend It Like Beckham, directed by Gurinder Chadha and starring Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley. It’s a wonderful movie with a lot of heart, and layers of meaning that will satisfy all kinds of viewers. Still, there’s something about the way the actual sport…
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Frank Capra’s Influence
Instead of a bonus episode of Goodnight Rita I wanted to put together a short introduction to Frank Capra, because his work is so important and relevant to everything else we’ve talked about on the channel so far… Harold Ramis was directly inspired by It’s A Wonderful Life when making Groundhog Day. The Truman Show…
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Asteroid City’s Incredible Editing
This video is a one-off talking about something fascinating I learned recently – the invisible compositing techniques used in the film Asteroid City (2023) and other Wes Anderson movies. It includes short clips of an interview with Barney Pilling from The Editing Podcast.
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Ant-Agonists: A Bug’s Life vs Antz
In this one-off upload we deep dive into a little-known detail about the Antz vs A Bug’s Life twin film feud. Beyond the rivalry between Pixar and Dreamworks there’s something you might not know about these two movies. They’re both adapted from the same source material… (This was originally uploaded on April 1st.)
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Let It Snow, An Underrated Gem
It’s the holiday season, so I’ve chosen to share one of my favourite seasonal movies, Let It Snow (2019). In this video we discuss the movie’s simple but effective storytelling, characters, and rich fictional world. It isn’t Citizen Kane, but that doesn’t mean a Christmas romance can’t be talked about with the same level of…
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This Is Halloween Ep. 6
It’s been an amazing journey through the imaginations of Tim Burton, Henry Selick, and Danny Elfman on this deep dive into The Nightmare Before Christmas! We hope you’ve enjoyed the series. This last episode collects a bunch of fun facts, trivia, deleted stuff, as well as comment responses at the end. See you in the…
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This Is Halloween Ep. 5
In this episode we take a pretty harrowing trip to the sixth dimension in Richard Elfman’s Forbidden Zone, released in 1980. Discovering this cult musical film was a real ride for me (not always a pleasant one). It can be really exciting to discover these hidden connections between different pieces of art and the careers…
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This Is Halloween Ep. 4
In this episode we get seriously, some might say ‘obsessively’ in-depth with the physical construction that went into Nightmare’s animation… The sculpting, fabricating, and mechanical movement of the puppets; as well as the scale of the production overall. If you’re an animation nerd, this is your episode.
