The Great Northern Film Podcast

CGI is the dominant form of animation and nearly every film uses CGI, however there was a time that was almost a fantasy and there was one film that had to prove to the world how it could be done, and that film is Toy Story

Somebody once told me film productions are like onions, they are full of layers when comes down to it, and there's no better showing of how many layers a film production can have than Shrek

When people talk about animation, the common stigma is that animation is for kids, but in the 70s and 80s, there was one man who changed that notion and made animated film for adults, and his name is Ralph Bakshi

Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock once said "it takes two to make a thing go right" and with animation there's no better dynamic duo than Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera

The movie making process is a long a tedious task, but who would think that it would take one guy nearly three decades to make it, come hell or high water, he made this project even if it took forever

When you think of early video games, Atari is the first one that comes to mind, and although they did rule the roost in the 70s, afterwards, they fell of in a dramatic way

The video game industry has moments of stagnation, but the most infamous moment was the infamous crash of 1983

A tale of a toon and a grouchy private eye is nothing new, but what is, it's production history of how it was made and we'll crack the case on that

In honor of the Super Mario Galaxy Movie, today we'll be looking at another Mario movie that needed more than brothers who's plumbing was their game to stop it from being this much of a mess

How can a game so simple yet addictive like Tetris have a story? Well when your story involves Soviet Russia, there's always a tale to tell