Forgetting Sarah Marshall – The Cultural Gutter

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Pay No Attention to the Puppet Behind the Mask

By Critterlab on October 31, 2024 • ( 1 Comment )

Puppets + Halloween should equal something right up my alley, but oddly in scary movies it frequently does not. I do love Henry Selick’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, which achieves the exact combination of creepy, cute, and quirky that I’m looking for, but it’s not puppets. Some of […]

I Was Raised by Muppets

By Critterlab on June 27, 2012 • ( 1 Comment )

Of all the people whose art and philosophy have shaped the man I grew up to be, I think it’s possible that I have been most influenced by Jim Henson. The way the Muppets interacted with one another and the values they lived by formed a foundation for […]