The same company behind Hello Kitty use Rankin/Bass magic to turn The Nutcracker into a fever dream of an animated feature in 1979.

Many Jewish comedy greats got their start in the once-scrappy comedy sketch show, which celebrates its golden anniversary this weekend.

Noel Royce (GREGORY HINES), a onetime successful songwriter, becomes a sidewalk Santa in the hope of breaking his writer's block. With the help of a wisecracking Christmas partridge named Melody ...

This episode introduced a nine year old supervisor, a bunch of balloons with Mark’s face printed on it, and a stop motion sequence that pays homage to classic Rankin/Bass Christmas movies, which ...

It is, Rankin said, the greatest producer of Christmas movies in the world. “I think something like 3,000 Hallmark movies are ...

His “Universal Language” takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but the culture is entirely Iranian. Farsi is the spoken tongue.

Director Matthew Rankin ’s odyssey through a Winnipeg dotted with homages to Iranian film history — and featuring the coziest ...

Using real stories from the filmmaker’s life, he and his Iranian co-writers Ila Firouzabad and Pirouz Nemati create a world ...

There are no indications of a forthcoming Timmies outpost in Tehran, so as a meeting place for the characters in their acclaimed new film “Universal Language,” director Rankin and co-writers ...

This time of year, we find ourselves in a lame-duck period on the movie calendar, with much of Hollywood’s energy directed ...