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The 2023 Hulu series, The Artful Dodger, offers a new insight into the fate of the character after the events of Oliver Twist. The series is set in Australia, 15 years after the original story, with Dodger working as a surgeon and facing old threats from his past. The Artful Dodger stars Thomas Brodie-Sangster in the titular role, and he joins a long list of acclaimed actors who have portrayed different variations of the iconic character in movies & TV.

The 2023 Hulu series, The Artful Dodger, puts a spin on a classic tale and looks at what happened to one of the popular Dickens characters. A supporting character in Charles Dickens's classic, Oliver Twist, Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, recruits the titular orphan Oliver into his gang of pickpockets and thieves, led by the sinister Fagin. His fate is left widely uncertain in the Dickens classic, but The Artful Dodger...

The Anthology Film Archives in New York will present three classic Laurel and Hardy films from the 1930s on the big screen this weekend, Saturday, September 27. Here is the description of the program:

“Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are the movies’ greatest comic duo, the quintessential dumb and dumber odd-couple. Though critically overshadowed by Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd, they were enormously popular, and proved a major influence on Abbott & Costello, Lucille Ball & Vivian Vance, and Jackie Gleason & Art Carney, not to mention Samuel Beckett (they were an inspiration for Waiting For Godot), Roman Polanski (who paid homage to them in his existentialist short films Fat And Lean and Two Men And A Wardrobe), and Ken Jacobs (whose Ontic Antics deconstructs one of their films).” –David Mulkins

County Hospital (1932, 20 min, 16mm, b&w. Directed by James Parrott.)

Them Thar Hills (1934, 20 min, 16mm, b&w. Directed by Charley Rogers.)

Tit For Tat (1935, 20 min,...

Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of favorite films. Sean Baker (Four Letter Words (’00), Take Out (’04), Prince of Broadway (’08) and the just released Starlet), provided us with his all time top ten film list (dated: November 2012).

Babes in Toyland (aka March of Wooden Soldiers) – Gus Meins, Charley Rogers (1932)

“Gus Meins and Charley Rogers’ masterpiece. The comedic timing and images have passed the test of time… that poor monkey playing a bastard Mickey Mouse. And even in this age of advanced make-up and computer effects, show a child that Bogeymen sequence and I guarantee there will be nightmares.“

Bad Lieutenant – Abel Ferrara (1990)

“Ferrara’s masterpiece. I love NYC films and this truly captured the city’s vibe of the late 80′s,...

25 Days Of Christmas: Television Specials and Holiday Films

Throughout the month of December, TV Editor Kate Kulzick and Film Editor Ricky D will review classic Christmas adaptions, posting a total of 13 each, one a day, until the 25th of December.

The catch: They will swap roles as Rick will take on reviews of classic television Christmas specials and Kate will take on Christmas movies. Today is day 2.

Day 2: Babes in Toyland/March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934)

Written by Frank Butler and Nick Grinde

Directed by Gus Meins and Charley Rogers

What’s it about?

This Laurel and Hardy musical, originally titled Babes in Toyland but later retitled March of the Wooden Soldiers, follows the misadventures of several of the residents of Toyland. Mother Peep, the Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe, is about to be evicted by the evil Silas Barnaby, who is scheming to coerce the beautiful Bo-Peep into marrying him,...

Happy Thanksgiving! With a little help from the Tribeca staff, we've pulled together some must-see movies for your long weekend with the family. Please chime in with your own suggestions in the comments below! First, we're kicking things off with an oldie-but-goodie. We figure not many of you remember this commercial, which aired during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2001, and stars one of fearless leaders. Gobble, gobble! Next up, some movie suggestions: Babes in Toyland Dir. Gus Meins, Charley Rogers, 1934 For some reason, my family has always watched March of the Wooden Soldiers on Thanksgiving - aka, apparently, Babes in Toyland. Why? I have no clue. I think it's just one of those movies they play constantly on holiday weekends, and we just grew accustomed to it. It's pretty bizarre: black and white, from 1934, with Laurel and Hardy as toymakers, lots of nursery rhyme characters, and monsters in ...