Last year, I was lucky enough to meet Martha Sigall, the 96-year-young former inker and painter who worked in what some consider the golden age of cartoonmaking in Hollywood. You name it, she worked on it, over the past eighty years. I had the opportunity to sit in on a Q&A with her, and then […]
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Podwits Profile: Martha Sigall
Posted: 17th January 2014 by Dion in Art, Cartoons, Celebrities, History, Podwit Profile, Podwits Exclusive, TelevisionTags: Animation, Bill Melendez, Bugs Bunny, Cartoons, Chuck Jones, Garfield, Graphic Films, Martha Sigall, Mel Blanc, MGM, Snoopy, Tex Avery, The Peanuts, The Pink Panther, Tom and Jerry, Warner Bros.
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Back when the MUPPETS were Great: A Merry Christmas From The Muppets
Posted: 23rd December 2013 by Dion in Christmas, Television, The Muppets, UncategorizedTags: Christmas, Disney, Fraggle Rock, Jim Henson, Lady Gaga, Sesame Street, The Muppet Movie, The Muppets
(After watching the horrible 2013 Muppet Special entitled Lady Gaga & The Muppets’ Holiday Spectacular, I wanted to republish an article that ran on Podwits.com in 2011 about one of the best Christmas Specials of all time, the 1987 A Muppet Family Christmas. This may have been the last great thing Mr. Henson put out before […]
A Merry Side-Cast Christmas
Posted: 18th December 2013 by Dion in Cartoons, Celebrities, Christmas, Film, History, News, Podcast, Side-Casts, Television, The Muppets, Up on The Soap BoxTags: A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Christmas Story, A Christmas Story 2, A Muppet Family Christmas, A Very Brady Christmas, Buster and Chauncey's Silent Night, Cheers, Child's Play, Christmas, Coronation Street, East Enders, Father Christmas, Gene Autry, Good Times, Hanukkah, Holiday Affair, It's A Living, Jehovah's Witness, Jingle all the Way, John Carpenter, Krampus, Miracle on 34th St., National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Neighbors, Patrick Stewart, Perfect Strangers, Phil Hartman, Railroad Alaska, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus, Side-Cast, Sidecast, Snoopy, Star Wars Christmas Special, T.I.G.F., Thanksgiving, The Brady Bunch, The Muppets, The Thing, Tom Akins, Twas The Night Before Christmas, Whittier Alaska, Zombies
Dion and contributor J. Blake are back for what is probably their BIGGEST (and LONGEST) Side Cast yet! After an extended intro of probably the duo’s worst college drinking story, they ease into the Christmas Spirit by way of Whittier Alaska, the Krampus (Saint Nick‘s long-lost brother), and the posthumously released Phil Hartman animated Christmas movie. Nothing is off […]
A little More UK Christmas TV Magic!
Posted: 17th December 2013 by Yorkshire Girl in Christmas, News, TelevisionTags: Christmas, Coca-cola, Famous Grouse, John Lewis Department, Marks & Spencers, The Snowman
Last week, I shared one of my favorite new British Christmas adverts I saw while home in Leeds, Yorkshire. The Marks & Spencers Christmas ad “Believe in Magic & Sparkle”, was a perfect example of the short little vignettes that English audiences have come to love in the Christmas season.
A little UK Christmas TV Magic!
Posted: 11th December 2013 by Yorkshire Girl in Christmas, News, TelevisionTags: Christmas, Coca-cola, England, Famous Grouse, Helena Bonham Carter, Marks & Spencers, United Kingdom
On a recent trip back home to Leeds, I was excited to see the start of the yearly roll out of the new Christmas adverts. It has become somewhat of a loving tradition which never really seemed to take off here in the States, much like our other custom of the highly-anticipated “Christmas Episode” of our favorite […]
Side-Cast: “You Wanna See Something REALLY Scary…?”
Posted: 20th November 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film Review, Podcast, Side-Casts, TelevisionTags: Aliens, Amazing Stories, American Werewolf in London, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Ben, Big Trouble in Little China, Black Sabbath, Bridge Across Time, Child's Play, Christine, Dark Crystal, Freddy's Nightmares, Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th The Series, Gremlins, Halloween, Harry and the Hendersons, Horror, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Jaws, John Carpenter, Keye Luke, Michael Jackson, Nightmare on Elm Street, Ozzy Osbourne, Poltergeist, Robocop, Side-Cast, Sidecast, Silver Bullet, Tales From the Crypt, Tales From the Darkside, Tan Hill Pub, Terminator, Terror at London Bridge, The Conjuring, The Goonies, The Howling, The Last Man on Earth, The Neverending Story, The Night of the Creeps, The Outer Limits, The Shining, The Thing, The Twilight Zones, Thriller, Vic Morrow, Vincent Price, Werewolf, Willard, Wolf
Well Dion and J. Blake are back again for another round in a late Fall (and pseudo) part 3 edition of their hugely popular “Horror Remakes” Side-Casts—but this time around, instead of tackling the reinterpretations of classic fright films, the lads instead discuss what really scared them specifically as children; what films and television, and the […]
Oh My God… It’s… it’s… it’s BAD!
Posted: 9th November 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Podcast, TelevisionTags: Batman, Captain America, Dick Tracy, Doctor Who, Halloween, Justice League, Spider-Man, Superman, The Phantom, The Rocketeer, The Shadow
For reasons that defy proper explanation, J and Dion delve into some of the worst that genre entertainment has to offer. Waxing nostalgic over guilty pleasures like The Flash TV series and The Shadow feature film and trying desperately to forget misfires like CBS’ abortive Justice League TV pilot and fan films like The Death of Batman, the boys cover […]
More Than Just Drinking: A Review of Brew Dogs
Posted: 14th October 2013 by Brian in Beer, TelevisionIt’s no secret to listeners of the Podwits Podcast that I’m a craft beer guy. I wanted to be a wine guy. The way wine was always spoken of in magazines and on TV made it sound like an exciting world of flavors and experiences that I’d never finish exploring. Sadly, though, no matter how […]
Side-Cast: Toy Variations
Posted: 2nd October 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Cartoons, Podcast, Side-Casts, Television, Toy Review, ToysTags: Amigo Toys, Bigfoot Monster Trucks, C.O.P.S., Cabbage Patch Kids, Comicbook Men, Dick Tracy, Evel Knievel, G.I.Joe, Garbage Pail Kids, Gobots, Greatest American Hero, He-Man, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Justice League of America, Knight Rider, M.A.S.K., Micro Machines, Muscle Men, Over the Top, Salute Your Shorts, Sectaurs, Side-Cast, Sidecast, Spiderman, Star Wars, Superfriends, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The A-Team, The Centurions, The Real Ghostbusters, Thundercats, Tonka cars, Transformers, Voltron, Werewolf, WWF
Dion and J. Blake are back for another exciting addition of the Podwits’ Side Cast. Todays topic is toys from our childhood. A subject often visited in the Podwits podcast, this time around the duo laments about the various toys they played with in their youth. Dion explains his paradox growing up that was imposed on him by […]
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Ep. 1 Review — It’s “Just the Pilot”
Posted: 26th September 2013 by Brian in Recap, TelevisionTags: Agents of Shield, Avengers, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Cinematic Universe, Clark Gregg, Coulson, Elizabeth Henstridge, Iain De Caestecker, Jed Wheson, Joss Whedon, Marvel, Maurissa Tanchareon, Ming-Na Wen
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. premiered on Tuesday, and it was the strongest debut for a scripted drama in years. On the other hand, Jim Steranko (a highly respected writer/artist whose groundbreaking 1967-68 run on Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. is the stuff of comic book history and a huge part of the reason we’re watching […]