On the border during the early twentieth century, two young horse thieves murder a a rancher’s son and are pursued by the father who is more poet than pistoleer in this look at nature, brutality, and male identity. This mix of crime novel and western haunts the reader like a fine murde...
3. Nobody is paying me to do this, so everything I write is my own opinion, which I stand by with a clear conscience. So what’s the deal with the title? What the heck is a saboscrivner? Well, I’m also a lifelong comic book reader (“This guy? The hell, you say!”), a...
Will be getting my booster next month, and remaining otherwise pretty isolated. I have to say I do like getting deliveries to my post office box though. Until this month, the regular walk to pick up a parcel from the comic’s shop first thing in the morning isn’t something I’ve done...
Modern British gangster flicks get mixed with a little comic book look in this mini-epic about a guy who apparently double-crossed the wrong people. It’s almost surprising that Ray Winstone doesn’t show up. A-Trak and Tommy Trash Tuna Melt Dir. Ryan Staake It starts off with dominos,...
Never before in the history of this nation has a presidential administration (guardians of the public trust) begun its reign by telling it citizens thatSATANIC“dark forces” and itsPOWERheld by anold religionelite andcovertclass ofDRUID PRIESTSare good for the masses. Yet, that is exactly what...
screams. But Element City inElementalnever quite came together in the same way, and so much of the film, which is otherwise a kiddie rom-com about a fire being and a water being who want to make sweet, sweet steam together, is about exploring this bizarre and barely functional ecosystem....
screams. But Element City inElementalnever quite came together in the same way, and so much of the film, which is otherwise a kiddie rom-com about a fire being and a water being who want to make sweet, sweet steam together, is about exploring this bizarre and barely functional ecosystem....
Into the Spider-Verse" was certainly a welcome addition to the canon. The 2019 Academy Award-winner for Best Animated Feature, "Into the Spider-Verse" is based on the modern-day Spider-Man comic book character Miles Morales, an Afro-Latino teenager who discovers his identity as Spider-Man ...
s when all the parts are at last in place that the flimsiness of this bombastic Rube Goldberg IMAX epic comes into focus. Behind all the nihilistic snark is a soap-opera meditation on destiny that assumes a bit too much investment in the fate of characters mostly defined by their quirks ...
. Though the visuals are crude by today’s standards (particularly in the natural landscapes of “Ant Island,” which are desperately lacking in detail) the studio was already well on its way to honing its signature brand of comic adventure loaded with heartfelt emotions. Plus: the Randy ...