The 20 Creepiest Kids' Movies of All Time

What with all the Dark Crystal sequel news that’s been flying around lately, I’ve been thinking about the original, and the slew of dark children’s movies from the ‘70s and ’80s. The opposite of brightly-colored, pop-culture-referencing Pixar flicks, films like The Secret of Nimh, The Last Unicorn and Watership Down were violent, dystopic and set in dense forests populated by bizarre creatures. Like the fairy tales from which some of them were drawn, these movies were not safe places to lose yourself. However, many of these films were feats of artistic prowess. Here is a look at 20 of the...  read more

The Wonderful World of James Ford: Sawyer's Ten Best Pop Cultural References

Say what you will about the Lost writers, James Ford, a.k.a., Sawyer, is one smart cookie. From Watership Down to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to Shakespeare to Oliver Twist to Strawberry Shortcake to Seinfeld he’s probably the most widely-referencing character on TV (or at the least most coherent—Tracy Jordan may have him beat in sheer volume). Since this is the final day of Sawyer-dom, here are the greasy-haired antihero’s best moments of pop-culture-saturated nicknaming, and the sources from which he draws....  read more

10 Best Animated Movies of All Time

Only once has an animated film every been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars—Beauty and the Beast in 1991—but there’s talk that the Academy might give a nod to Wall-E this year. We thought we’d take a look at where the lonely robot stands among a rich history of animated film. There were tons more that we could have added…Fantasia, Pinnochio, The Secret of Nimh, The Triplets of Belleville, The Nightmare Before Christmas, so many other classic Disney films, most everything Pixar has ever released…but we thought we’d just give you our take on the best of the best....  read more