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Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here

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"The devil is not as black as he is painted." -- Dante, The Inferno I have to admit, I was looking forward to the new Hellboy ...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Hey kids! Comics! A Teachable Moment

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The editors of We're Still Here have linked to my movie blog instead of my comics and art blog , so I thought I'd provide a landing...
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Monday, June 26, 2017

Bullets and Bracelets

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Sing, O goddess, the wrath of Diana of Themyscira, daughter of Queen Hippolyta, that brought countless ills upon the scions of Germany. Man...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

The Doctor is In

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Doctor Strange (2016, directed by Scott Derrickson) is the latest cog in Marvel Studios' massive marketing machine. By now, these are ...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

Innocence, Experience, Sex, and Drugs

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In Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015, directed by Marielle Heller), a film set in the sexually liberated, doped up 1970s, the title character ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Hitting the Small Time

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Ant-Man (2015, directed by Peyton Reed) finds the Marvel superhero franchise experimenting with genre. The superhero film is flexible if y...
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Saturday, June 06, 2015

Ultron Unbound

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Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) finds the Marvel Cinematic Universe entering its decadent period. I'd almost call it the series' Br...
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Sunday, May 03, 2015

The Pull List, early 2015

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In honor of the new Avengers movie (review soon), I thought I'd give you a run-down of what comics I read month to month. As you might ...
Saturday, September 06, 2014

The Mundane Spider-Man

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As I was watching The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014, directed by Marc Webb), I was imagining Shailene Woodley sitting in a theater somewhere ...
Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Dancing Among the Stars

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After I saw the film, I had a conversation with a friend of mine about Guardians of the Galaxy (2014, directed by James Gunn) that went so...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

Better Angels

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Although it didn't invent the mid-franchise retcon for movies, X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014, directed by Bryan Singer) does better...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

A Winter of Our Discontent

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo) is the best of the Marvel Studios Avengers movies, one that...
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Saturday, November 30, 2013

Ragnarok and Roll

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Thor: The Dark World (2013, directed by Alan Taylor) is a better film than its predecessor. It may be a better film than The Avengers , bu...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Wolverine in Japan

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I mentioned to some of my friends a couple of days ago that I hoped that there would be the requisite naked Hugh Jackman in the new Wolveri...
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Brittle Steel

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A couple of years ago, DC Comics went through a big shake-up of their line of superhero comics. As happens when you have a universe shared ...
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Friday, November 30, 2012

An Appointment In Tehran

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So, two different versions of Tehran in two films in two months. The Tehran of Argo was a place of terror, of menace, of geo-politik paran...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Dark Before Dawn

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There's a principle in criticism called "The Incoherent Text" (first coined by critic Robin Wood). That principle holds that ...
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Saturday, July 07, 2012

Itsy Bitsy Spider

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I was having a conversation last week about superheroes and their arch-nemeses with a friend of mine on Twitter. My friend was wondering if...
Wednesday, July 04, 2012

The Dark Knight Revisited

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The third film in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy is due out in a couple of weeks. I thought I'd revisit my old review of the pr...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

If This Be the Avengers...

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I thought about not writing about The Avengers (2012, directed by Joss Whedon). I mean, what's the point, eh? It's a movie that se...
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