COED sat down with Oscar nominated animator Bill Plympton at his studios right down the hall from us here in New York City to discuss working with Kanye West, Weird Al Yankovic, a peckerneck poet, and Sarah Silverman. His new feature length film, Idiots and Angels, comes out at the IFC Center in NYC today.

Slashfilm recently featured a video that compared Michel Gondry’s new film Be Kind Rewind to The Amanda Show, which aired on Nickelodeon eight years ago. While the concepts are indeed similar, it’s commonplace for these kind of coincidences to happen in entertainment…right?
The Amanda Show clip:

Be Kind Rewind trailer:… Click to read more

A man (Black) whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend’s video store. In order to satisfy the store’s most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films, which include Back to the Future, The Lion King, and Robocop.… Click to read more