SHORT NOTICE

This year’s Oscar nominations were announced this week—some good flicks on the list, but only one nomination for Ben Affleck’s The Town, albeit a deserved one: Jeremy Renner for Best Supporting Actor.

Anyway…

Monster-of-the-Week: …one of this year’s nominees for Best Animated Short is The Gruffalo, from Julia Donaldson’s children’s book. So this week’s honoree is the horned, shaggy title terror, the threat of which the ingenious mouse hero uses to bluff his way out of peril from a series of predators…

You can see the trailer for the film here.