Category: Book Club

October means the start of the fall/winter holiday season. Halloween arrives, then you look up, and it’s New Year’s. But before we get too far ahead of ourselves, I like to think of October as starting another key period: the season of stop motion animation. Whether it’s the classic herky-jerky movement of the Rankin-Bass productions like Rudolph…

When choosing a Book of the Month selection, we look for something that might be instructive for new filmmakers, or perhaps, a book that highlights an interesting/underreported moment in film history. And then there are those that are just a bit random, and maybe tangentially related. This month’s book falls into that last category, while…

(In our ongoing effort to connect with younger viewers, we’ve decided that 2026 is the perfect time to start a book club. Each month we’ll be highlighting a book, new or old, that celebrates film, provides important insight, or maybe just a fun take on the world of filmmaking.) The Hays Code, implemented in 1934,…