Pickles for Nickels (2009) watch online HD

This little animated gem shows all of the wonders of hand-made film-making, and it's a great antidote to all the automated CG animated robo-videos being made now. The story of a changing city (where charm and humanity is being lost) is mirrored by a technique that now seems disappearing as well. The sets, made of mostly cardboard and paper, are actually deceptively complex, and the shadowy lighting adds to the gloom and theatricality. And instead of being overly dreary, it's actually pretty funny (I like the rat).

I would move into this magical little paper world if I could.

What a delight!

Even by the god-awful standards of Channel 13's "Saturday Night at the Cheapies" (AKA Reel 13), this selection by internet voters to be screened after a repeat of the clunker THE REPUBLIC OF LOVE was embarrassingly inept.

Part nostalgia, part mere brain damage, the short video presents a sort of collage animation combining puppeteers with backdrops, childishly drawn and constructed. The murmuring voice-over track is idiotic, and the overall effect of the 8-minute (but seemingly interminable) loser is counter-productive.

Obvious theme of the horrors of gentrifying and otherwise mangling traditional Manhattan neighborhoods is so trite, and the animated monster/bulldozer so poorly done that I came away rooting for the late Leona Helmsley.

With fawning hosts Neal Gabler and Richard Pena unintentionally performing as clowns with their laughably square weekly commentary, these lousy films (and increasingly, videos), should be put to rest immediately, long before PBS is eventually defunded by right wing nuts. I'd rather watch an "Are You Being Served?" episode for the 40th time than sit through this drek.